Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Lugano - Zurich . . . SWITZERLAND

We slid over the Swiss border with ease and stopped by at the Warriors head quarters to visit the boss. I gave my Zurich friend Mirko a call to see what the plan was for Zurich and he said to get up there asap cos they were having the first skate at the new 'beauty' D.I.Y spot in a squat house. Enrico dropped me to the train station and in 20 mins I was on the one way train to Zurich. Big thanks to Enrico for taking good care of us on the trip and showing us his homeland!
Passing through the Alps on the way to Zurich was the most picturesque, romantic train ride of my life. The sun was blasting through clouds like spotlights, lighting up little segments of the land, had the effect of a well planned light show. The lakes were turquoise blue straight from a postcard. When the train left Lugano it was a glorious spring day of around 25 degrees, within 1 hour we passed through a tunnel, when we entered it was blue sky and sunshine although when we exited the tunnel some 4-5 mins later people screamed with shock as the country side was getting sprayed with fresh white powdery snow. Sorry my photos are so bad, I was to busy filming as snow to an Australian person is like the ocean to an Austrian/German tourist.
When I arrived in Zurich Mirko was there to meet me at the station and we met up with the homies, grabbed some beers to raise the spirits as it was pouring down with rain and made our way to the squat house.









Monday, August 6, 2012

MILAN/COMO . . . ITALY

Last days of the Italian leg of the trip and we we checked out Milan and then stayed the night at our friends Machetes house, the most Australianized Italian ive ever met! Thanks for the good times bro and hooking us up a place to stay! First night sleeping in a bed for awhile and god it felt good!
A quick pizza for lunch and then the boys dropped me off to Lugano, Switzerland were I would continue solo around Switzerland!












Thursday, August 2, 2012

BRESCIA, BERGAMO & MILAN . . . ITALY

Found a photo of my Berlin homie Niels collecting some THRASHER fame. All the guys wanted to stay in a hostel so i had the whole back seat of the car to myself, 5 stars. Over the following 2 days we checked out the Brescia, Bergamo & Milan parks and Enrico and I said goodbye to Cava & Bad Tony who had to head back Barcelona way!












Wednesday, August 1, 2012

KNUDLE BOWL . . . ITALY


After a rough night sleeping in the car with high winds and heavy rain shaking the van we hit the Knudle bowl to spend our Sunday. Sammy and Enrico caught up on sleep and pumped the bowl in between dreams. Cava re-joined the crew and took the bowl down like a tasmanian devil with high high high speed heavy grinds. Next to the couch I found this magazine with possibly the best cover shot of all time, had me in tears. We were lucky enough to escape the rain that night as the guys let us set up camp the night in the bowl! Cheers Knudle locals!










WE THE LOONS . . .

Our homie Louie who showed us the best time ever in Tasmania has started his own clothing line dubbed 'WE THE LOONS' . . . Check the product on his blog . . .

wetheloons.blogspot.com

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

CREEDENCE D.I.Y PARK . . . ITALY . . .

The following day after a rough night of drinking we ventured out with pollen choking our throats and clogging our eyes we went to check out the Creedence D.I.Y park with the DUMB Skateboards guys. I was hyped to see this photo in Gio's house of the now demolished Black Cross bowl in Basel, Switzerland as i would be heading up there in the next 10 days! After losing bucket loads of sweat we all went out for a pizza feast which was followed by a rough night sleep in the van . . . Once again thanks to the DUMB SKATEBOARDS guys especially Gio for showing us a great time!











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