Me and my fiancée Marie on spring vacation in Greece.

A wonderful way to start summer is to leave Stockholm an early morning when there is a bewildered blizzard roaring outside the cab window on the ride to Arlanda airport. We went to Makrigialos on the island of Crete in Greece.

Snow!

Marie taking pictures from the hotel sundeck.

 One of the days there we rented bicycles (suprised?) and went out for a spin around the surrounding area, it was a really lovely day.

Marie looking sharp and focused for the upcoming curve.

Being the awesome fiancée she is she suggested I bike of some steam and head out on a more difficult ride later that same day. I decided to ride up from Makrigialos to Pefki a small mountain village, it was on a hiking trail that easily made those hard roads from Albania seem like Autobahn. This was a hiking trail with steep, steel stairs and mostly impossible to ride by bicycle, it was amazing fun tho to get the bike through there anyhow.

Nice view eh?

You don't ride bicycles up those stairs unless you are Danny Macaskill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken goes with lemon right?

A door.

On my way down from the mountains along a great serpentine asphalted road,

Below are pictures from and towards the beach just a stone-throw away from our room.

Beach lunch.

Making a pose learned from dad...

Goat looked like he could kick some ass.

Thistle looks sharp.

Panorama towards Makrigialos.

It was a really good week and it brought back many fond memories and created even more ones together with the love of my life, Marie.

Your time.

Allow this movie to take the time out of your life, it has as of recently become even more important to me.

Home.

We can all do something.

Friday ride in Stockholm.

Got some nice photos of the Koga on a wonderful early spring day.

The ride I took is shown here; http://runkeeper.com/user/marcus75/activity/341904720

The Koga's first ride of 2014.

Spring in Stockholm, near Bergshamra.

Was out a couple of days ago in beautiful weather and met my brother Peter and best friend Henrik in Bergshamra centrum and had lunch at Liko.

The thirty-nine year-old rookie.

Tomorrow I make my grand entrance in www.sil.se (for you englishspeaking people it's this; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball), The Swedish Floor ball league, check out this youtube video.

SIL.SE

As I grew up in the north of Sweden we often played this game, probably to such an extent that it was border lining on addiction. What it also was for me was a passion, I love competition even when the odds are against me and I was never especially good in the game when I was young, partially due to being unfit and overweight. I also always played with my friends and never in the "real" teams and while this isn't professional it's probably rather close.

As I moved down to Stockholm I lost my contact with the sport since it's hard to get a group together to play and even harder to find spots to play in.

A few weeks ago we started talking at work about getting a group together and play but it never got anywhere, I did however get to hear about the above league and found a team that was looking for players.

I talked with the guy in charge and once I heard they played in division 1 last year and asked to get moved down to division 2 due to a better schedule I got hesitant to what level of skill will be required to to oneself justice. He convinced my though and while I am still very unsure about how this will turn out tomorrow I jump in in a match right away without ever seen the guys in the team.

Here's hoping I don't make a fool out of myself and can enjoy my rookie season even if it might very well start and end tomorrow...

Outtakes - Skopje to Thessaloniki

Why I think it was better to eat chocolate and peanuts while on the road - outtakes from my 2013 adventure;

http://youtu.be/HialieQbajk

Travel - Bicycle touring 2013, Macedonia, Albania and Greece (playlist)

Travel - Bicycle touring 2013, Macedonia, Albania and Greece (playlist)