RT @ajv: I know it's simple, but I still love how the top picture on my blog is directly linked to my @dailybooth . Check it: http://bit ... [chrissharp]
Working on new site design for @GemmaCocker .. + first game of 11-aside in a long while in a couple hours, hope the fitness is up to it! :/ [chrissharp]
There are some serial foursquare users following me, seriously why do you need to follow 1000's of people on foursquare? explain that to me [chrissharp]
West End's new GLINDA (Louise Dearman) & ELPHABA (Rachel Tucker) singing Wicked spoof B4 they wer cast! http://bit.ly/apMGK3 (skip to 1.40s) [gemmacocker]
All sung out for the day & suitably wired on coffee.. Looking forward to Social Media Week's (@smwldn) opening party at Adam Street tonight [gemmacocker]
*above is a rough lil’ vid I’ve uploaded to facebook of clips from the trip I took on the Kodak Zi8.
I (Chris) finally got some more snowboarding in this year at Risoul/Vars in the french alps. A Last minute decision with go for 6 days of boarding & partying with the fanatics crew from Boxing Day onwards. Accompanied by my younger bro Andrew, his partner Bex and our mutual friend Bryce. We had a pretty mint little apartment right up the hill next to the lifts and there was something to do (mostly drinking) organised everynight as well as of course New Years! We had a couple of bluebird powder days so it was smiles all round apart from a few complete white-outs on some of the days.
All in all it was a pretty decent mountain, it didn’t “wow” me but hey any snowboarding is better than none. For anyone considering Risoul for some Skiing or boarding make sure you head over to Vars at some stage, as we found the skiing and boarding (& snow) to be better over there, it takes roughly 25 means on the lifts to get there.
Well we tried our best but in then end we were edged out of making the final 5 teams by only a few hundred votes. Thanks so much to all our friends, fam and supporters during the voting period & congrats goes to the winners of the Koh Samui section Michael & Jenny. We’ll be watching the rest of the competition keenly and we hope they do a good a job as we would have!
Whats next you might ask? well we’re really excited to have booked a trip to Egypt, Croatia, Greece and Turkey for early next year! so be on the look out for more posts from us veeery soon. Also, Chris is heading to Risoul in France for a week of powder snowboarding on Dec 26th and will update the blog via his iPhone (hopefully) thanks to AudioBoo.fm and the WP iPhone App.
*Update A few people have been asking exactly how to vote for us, or have run into some problems. We agree the site isnt crystal clear or the most usable site in the world – so I’ve recorded this quick screen-cast below hopefully that makes it more obvious! VOTE for us as The Ultimate Thailand Explorers for Koh Samui!.
Exciting news! We’ve just been announced as semi-finalists in the “Ultimate Thailand Explorers” competition for the destination of beautiful Koh Samui!
You can watch our video application below, but when you’re done PLEASE VOTE FOR US HERE! (there’s lots of prizes for voters too!)
So what does that mean exactly? well it means we’re now up against 4 other very strong competitors who all want to win badly! The team selected for each destination (5 destinations in total) will get an all expenses paid trip to their destination of choice in order to promote it to as many people as possible via social media. From there, one overall winning team will win $10,000 in cash and $5,000 in prizes!
After 5 weeks away including: 11 flights; 12 airports; 15 beds; 2 bags; 1 laptop; a few sleepless nights; countless itchy bites & just 3 pairs of socks, we’re now back in London.
We want to send a big shout out to all of the amazing people we met & the friends we made along the way – our trip couldn’t have been what it was without each and every one of you!
Heading up the Douro Valley in Portugal to visit our friend Oscar’s winery – his family vineyard “Quevedo” makes the best Port in all of Portugal http://quevedoportwine.com/
This is all part of Oscar’s vineyard – as well as so much more(!)
Tasting the grapes after a full tour of the wine making process & the beautiful winery
Finishing off with a wine tasting session with Nadine – we were so spoilt with this amazing day and we know sooo much more about wine and port now thanks to Nadine and Oscar lol!
