180 South

Video August 11, 2014 Pax Leave a comment

So you have been working for the last few years wondering what to do next, buy a house? new car?
maybe use your 4 weeks holiday and take a trip?. It seems like we all live day to day to make money for what?. After watching with documentary (180 south) it come to me that its easy for us to make out lives complicated not so easy to simplify it. After watching this movie of a man doing one of his dreams and making his crazy city life nice and simple, I now know that what we need to do with our lives is to find more time to do the things we love. This movie will touch a place in your sole that needs to take the first step to finding some long awaited adventure. Next time you are looking for something to do on that boring day inside then its raining or just what to spark up your sole, go find this movie and start living you way 🙂 …

ITS NOT AN ADVENTURE TILL SOMETHING GOS WRONG !!!

cronulla, Ocean, Surf, Sydney, water, Waves, Winter

The Cronulla office

Image July 23, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

While my colleagues been out and about I’ve been working from home which means I have time for early (7:30 is earlyish enough in winter right :)) morning surfs, coffee walks to check the waves and maybe a lunch time run along the esplanade. Pure winter bliss!

photo, Winter

To the Snow

Image July 9, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

We went to the snow over the weekend, expression of the week – we’re going to the snow, you can simply say that because there’s just one place with snow! Being from Sweden and that people always think you’ve been skiing to school since before you could walk. Not the case with me, I’ve had sort of an attempt to snowboard a few years back, not that successful. But you know one forget so thought I’d give it a go again. Went alright I made it down that hill a couple of times without killing myself or anyone else (this is after spending most of the morning with my face in the snow). Day after every single bone in my body hurts!
/110% Beach Person

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Cronulla beach sunrise

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Photo from the car this morning. It’s a record low for me in Australia I think, it was 5 degrees outside so freezing. School holidays and surf looked like so much fun for all the groms out there, westerly winds and yeah we went to work 🙂

cronulla, photo, Sydney

Lighthouse walk in Kurnell

Image June 29, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

Weekend weather has been so nice, cold but sunny and sometimes you don’t have to travel very far to enjoy what’s around. We did a walk up to the lighthouse in Kurnell earlier today. Except for the dumb as people dumping their rubbish on the road there it’s an amazing walk and just around the corner. It’s also whale watching season and we spotted some big things very far away out at sea.

Parade, photo, Sydney, Winter

Winter Magic from the Mountains

Image June 26, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

While many of my Swedish friends and family celebrate midsummer we’re doing the opposite over here. Back home it’s the longest day of the year and the sun doesn’t set until long after 10PM in most parts of the country. Here on the other hand it’s the shortest day of the year so we headed up to the Blue Mountains to join in on the annual Winter Festival that’s held in Katoomba. It’s a community driven event with street performances, live music and one kick as parade and other happenings all through the day. The participants are encourage to dress in costumes to so we brought fellow vikings Sofia and Dan with us to! Magic day in the mountains I tell you, more parades and costumes for the people.

Indo, photo, Winter

From where I’d rather be

Image June 15, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

Winter over here’s just started, it’s not winter like back in Sweden with minus 22 degrees and snow but still I’m freezing, they’ve forgotten about isolation and things like that over here… In our unit it’s colder than outside I’m pretty sure.

I’ve brought out my winter booties from the closet for yesterdays surf, the water is not that bad just the bloody wind makes it so chilly. I miss tropical waters, bikini surfs, nasi goreng, pocari sweat. Some photos from Bali below, it’s been way to long now. It used to be like my second home and now I haven’t been over for more than a year…

Cooking, Food, Link Love, Veggie

Eat your feelings

Video June 15, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

Stumbled upon these two ladies making sangas and soup, just love this video have a look if you have the time. Made me really hungry to 🙂

The girls have a neat looking website to http://www.eatourfeelings.com/

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Morning Sunrise

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Got up the other morning and this is what i found, hope you like it as much as i did !!!!! 🙂

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GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!!!

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Always a good start to the day when it looks like this !!!! WAVES & SUN & a little bit of LoV3 what more do you need ????????????????????

NZ, photo

Lost and found NZ

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As we raced along the back roads of NZ we come across the little piece of NZ perfection, a tunnel made out of trees. We had to stop an take a rest under this little beauty..

Stockholm, Sweden

Go went gone and back again

Image June 2, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

Oh yes, I’ve been to Sweden and back again. 20 year anniversary for work so I took some time off to have coffee with the family, hang out in the park with some favorites and some drinks while in Stockholm. Two weeks went buy like a chipmunk on ice eating nuts, been good but hectic.

Easter, NZ, Surf

Qantas how did you manage this?!

Image April 30, 2014 Sara 1 Comment

Got off the plane on Sunday night in Sydney and went to pick up our boards. Pax thought the board bag looked a bit dusty and it did have a few holes in it so we opened it up to have a peek. Just to find out both surf boards were snapped in half! How is it even possible? We’ve seen from the plane window when they offloaded our luggage placing the board bag sideways in the carriage with one part sticking out so they must have driven into something to small, smashing the part sticking out to break I reckon. Anyways we headed over to the Qantas service desk just to be met by a grumpy lady that just said that since it’s fragile baggage Qantas takes no responsibility and we’ve signed the waiver and so on.

I’ve traveled so much with surf boards on different airlines for the last few years and a ding or a dent yeah that’s fair enough – it happens, but both our boards snapped in half?! That’s just not cool especially coming from an Australian airline that you would assume would be used to handling surf boards. We’ve sent a complaint through to the Qantas baggage claims so let’s see what they say. On the bright side I’m glad it happened on the way back and I guess we need to shop for new boards now.

Easter, NZ

Finally there was swell!

Image April 27, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

This is what Piha looked like this morning when we where driving off to drop the kombi and make our way to the airport. Fins and wetties all packed away…

Now we’re on the way back to Sydney, see you next time NZ maybe in a split screen. Some photos while waiting for our airport lift earlier today.

Easter, NZ, photo, Surf

New Zealand, Part 3, Piha beach

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Back on the west coast, the Kombi is getting a good run. I love this place, so beautiful!

Easter, NZ, Ocean, photo

East coast New Zealand, Mount Maunganui

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The west coast side , Taranaki was windy, rainy, choppy and just to messy to surf so we cruised over to the east coast trying to find some waves. One really good thing with being on an island, two sides of coast. How much fun can you have driving the kombi?! Ha ha I’ve lost the gears so many times, but everyone want’s to be your friend. I say let’s get one in Australia.

Nice sunny weather on the other side, perfect little offshore wind, waves where so clean and yeah pretty much no swell, we had a quick paddle but just to small. Wish we had a longboard with us. I want to come back and explore this side of the coast some more next time.

Walked up the mount instead, look at the lines of swell coming in… but not happening.

Easter, NZ, photo

New Zealand, Part 1

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We ended up bringing the left overs of the cyclone Isa with us from Australia to (weather was saying rain and wind for the week) so after picking up the rental Kombi in Wellington we decided to skip inland to see Pax’s family in Whangamomo… yep you try to spell or pronounce it. Muddy mission which included driving a golf car over the saddle (kiwi for big hill) and having way to many drinks with the locals… I also found a horse outside my window one night.

Our new home – a 1979 VW Kombi with pop top and all

In the Republic

New truck anyone?

Muddy chucks!

Local hangout

Mert, Pax and me on a mission, not sure who is driving.

M&M is Pax’s Mum ans step Dad

Easter, NZ

Go went gone

Image April 18, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

Yeij! Finally we’re at the airport, just traveling light with 2 surf boards, five cameras, two wetsuits, two lap tops and a couple of smurfs. See you in kiwi land in a couple of hours!

cronulla, Skate

Downhill in Kurnell

Image April 9, 2014 Sara Leave a comment

Such a good little find, the suburb next to us has this fun little hill in the park. Just love it!