DAY 40 & 41
We left mid day Netherlands and headed to Germany, while Chris went back home. The driving was intersting as we speed like 130 km/h on the ultra smooth highway going with the wind downhill it seemed. Upon crossing the boarder the horizon went from seeing pretty tall fast moving windmill giant, generic genoratiors, to these super giant Ultra furutristic Mills that makes everybody in the car, just laugh like we just went into the future in our ...

DAY 36
We woke up and gathered around the breakfast table for a huge breakfast and internet time. The place was immaculate when we arrived and due to the dirty dozen rabbits we pretty much messed it up but as always left the place how we found it.

Today Chris sister - Nanouk - and her two huge dogs (one looking exactly like a wolf) was our guide, as Chris had a friends bachelor party to attend. We headed to the spot Wijk aan Zee, another up-scale beach ...

DAY 34
We got to sleep in a bit this morning and after some nice slow breakfast and internet we headed to the kite spot nearby to set up a massive kite demo day.

Upon our arrival there were many local Rabbits already flying even though the wind was light and on-shore. We brought tons of gear down to the sandy beach and displayed everything for the people to try. Even though the wind was light the Big Mama and Boss were powering the riders with ease. ...

DAY 32
Today in the morning the Gang was woke up by Mike who was leaving the tour in order to go back to the Rabbit Head Quarters. After some friendly handshakes and same friendly gang-face-smacks the door was shut and a short nap followed as the upcoming day was planned to be long. Once we all woke up for good we headed towards the Lancing Beach in Brighton to check out the conditions as the forecast was predicting some good wind for today. Once we arrived ...

DAY 30
Today was the Lord's Day and we took it easy especially that Poole has many pubs and so the previous night adventures needed some solid r.e.m. sleep compensation.
As a tradition already, we ate breakfast in its last minute of serving which today luckily brought only smile to the waiters. Probably at this time they discovered we are not quite regular hotel guests with not quite regular automobiles.

To be proper on Sunday we wondered around ...

DAY 28
As last night we arrived to our hotel quite late waking up wasn`t easy.  When we came out Phil Rawcliff - our great English agent - was already waiting for us in the lobby. We ate traditional here rich breakfast with lots of eggs and bacon and then aimed towards our first stop, the S2AS kite-shop. Before the Gang jumped into cars we gathered for a sec around the parking lot where everybody was quite surprised and impressed to receive from Phil, a ...

DAY 26
Today Rabbits enjoyed a real day off.

Imagine that!

DAY 24
In the straight line the tour section between Valencia and Bordeux looks not too long, but in the reality it is not, as between Spain and France there are Pyrenees, beautiful but high and steep mountains. In order to cross them we had to go through Barcelona and Perpignon.

At the planned stop in McDonalds for lunch, Lou, Franz and Ben headed to nearby town of Carcassone to get Ben's replacement
passport and credit card that he misplaced the ...

DAY 22
On Friday night we reached Valencia, actually Les Palmeres -  a small resort town next to the City of Valencia.
We spent a night in a lively camping site, which like many others here in Spain, is a popular vacation destination for whole Spanish families, including little babies and great grandparents. As we disturbed our neighbors a bit with our late arrival we had to be very nice to them in the morning, but as in Spain life definitely goes ...

DAY 20
(Viva España World Champions!)

This morning Franz and Rob took the smaller R.V. to the mechanic because the engine light has been on for a while. Rest of the Gang mostly slept in and those, who didn't visit this wind capital of south western Europe yet, walked around the new town a bit. At around noon the team gathered near the hotel and we all jumped in the Rabbit Mobiles and headed to the spot passing by on our way through our Dealership here ...

DAY 18
We woke up just in time to catch the breakfast at Hotel Zodiaco. In the Portugese style things happen very fast and the kitchen was closing 5 minutes ago. Once we refilled our batteries a bit we quickly headed to the little dock to catch the boat. Once on the beautiful spot we setup the demo gear for the locals to try in perfect side offshore steady wind ideal for the 9 meter smokes. Riders did a photo session with Shaddix our still camera man and Ben ...

DAY 16
The Rabbit Gang got up around 9 am after a great sleep and cleaned up both campers as Mark and Kamil packed their bags to catch a flight back to the EU HQ in Poland. Mike is now the main man leading the tour for Wainman as the guys huddled around to hear the new plan of action and sleeping arrangements for the camper vans. The changing of the guard took a few hours but eventually we left Guincho town with 2 new gangsters, Rob and Winky. Also Swiss ...

DAY 14
Driving, Driving, Driving all night and day. Spain is beautiful, lots of ranchos and haciendas and country views.  Difficulty seeing at night, very strong winds, storms and rains made the whole trip even longer as our RV's very tired in those hard conditions, same as the whole crew.

Each of us took turns through the night driving and sleeping and filling up gas tanks until everybody was up and we headed to yet another rest-stop for ...

DAY 12
Finally some quality sleep at casa Franz Olry, as the Rabbit gang enjoyed a huge breakfast prepared by Madame Olry. We all hung out drinking coffee in Franz's shaping factory in the back of the property.

We took turns doing much needed laundry, and cleaning the campers from the tons of garbage and sand that had accumulated so far in our journey.
The camper water tanks topped off and a quick skateboard session on his road there then on the ...

DAY 10
Early in the morning we finally heard the sound we all missed the most the last couple of days. The sound of WIND outside our campers. We all had a quick bite to eat at a cafe in a little ghost town on the road to Beauduc. Later we had to hitch a ride on the Ferry boat. The funny thing is that the captain didn't want any money from us, but he really wanted a Wainman Hawaii t-shirt.  We gave it to him, and even the whole Gang signed it for him. ...

Day 8
Vacation time and weekends are very special in Italy. Especially without wind, which we are already missing, the burning sun makes the days quite challenging. Often swims in the sea and cooling showers help to survive but still pretty much everybody is hiding in shade. Well you have to slow down to help your heart a bit. Evenings though, are the time when people wake up and gather to feast and later party, almost like in ancient Rome! Mornings after are ...

DAY 5

As it often happens, the second day at Grada went pretty much the same as the first when it comes to the wind conditions. The plan was to head to Sottomarina to chill out, however Sergio and Luigi suggested we stay one more day in Garda until the afternoon to hopefully catch the Ora wind. Sure enough, the wind picked up and looked like it filled in the lake, and so we went out to give it a try. Out there it was really light, though honestly it seemed ...

DAY 1
After whole first night in the road, traveling through Poland and Czech Republic to our first official stop we are quite tired. The Podersdorf - little village at the big Neusidler Lake in Austria is just 50 km from big old city of Vienna and is a quite nice place with many interesting kiters making this spot like some ocean resort with apparently no ocean :) As we left many good memories here last year the fatigue doesn't matter, fully ...