Back again with an whole new blog season. What happened the last 4 months: Personally I did a lot of power training in the gym. My trainer Hans Kroon is a well known Olympic power trainer here in Rotterdam. He guided me thru a power program to build by body again after my down time the last 8 years. It was an eye opener for me. I thought I was a sportsman because I progressed the last year from 6a to 7a french. But when I started the power training I knew I could progress much more then I...

This time everything was very spontaneous :-)3 days before the flight: I found out that I could go on a climbing trip two weeks earlier than I had thought.2 days before the flight: I booked a fight to Reus.22:30, the evening before the flight: I remind that I had to print the boarding card. The internet at home still wasn`t working so I drove to the Uni Bibliothek to print it there. During the check in I figured out that I forgot my passport at home, so the check in wasn`t possible.00:00: I was thinking where I could go...

A Mann down at the airport, we headed straight to La Rambla after landing in Barcelona; the street not the route.  Meandering down Barcelona’s main pedestrian street we stopped at the market for lunch and some groceries after watching the energetic, tiny fur-ball roborovskis for sale.  Just narrowly missing purchase from Keith and Sasha the tiny hamster has been taken up at the team name and butt of countless jokes.