As Marco is cycling for about 2 weeks through the winterly landscape of Poland now and keeping us up to date via the blog, we thought it would be interesting to see where our biking hippie hangs out.

For that purpose we equiped Marco, similar to migratory birds, with a little homing device, the Nokia N95 mobile. Every time he takes a picture with it, the N95 will save its GPS-Position.

That way, you can see the last impressions of Marcos trip on our new Map, linked with the particular tour episode.

Now he’s on the road !
Marco has left Berlin on Sunday, December 14th at 3 o’clock pm.

Many thanks to all who came to our farewell party and show their support with that. Especially but to all those who honoured Marco and the project on Sunday as well, when he started in front of the Brandenburger Gate in Berlin.

We are now waiting eagerly for Marco’s first report on the journey !

Ride On ! We are with you !

Martin

Hi folks,
It’s almost done. On Saturday there will be the farewell/start-up party in Berlin.
I hope you’ll be there numerously because we set up a nice program for you ! Anyhow, what I would like to announce :

If you will not be able (do not know how this might be possible ;), to make it to Berlin on Saturday - send us a short video comment on the start. This will then be shown on Saturday to support Marco mentally.  So its your chance to become a part of the expedition as well.

Simply, post it as a comment or send it to me via mail martin@berlin-hanoi-2008.com
We would be very happy !

Finally something personal :
Saturday will, unfortunately, be a cold day. That’s why we’ll serve you fire !

Faulée Taubée - Fireperformances will give a unique show at home. On the party. If you where ever asking yourself, what we do elsewhere - there you can check it out.

A short teaser on our current show is hear:
VIDEO

I love to see you on Saturday

Martin

It was highest time for project presentation on MySpace. Visit our new MySpace site:
www.myspace.com/berlin_hanoi_2008

In Blesses,
Marco

“It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.”
(quote by Winston Churchill)

Welcome Samson!

From Freiburg (DE) Samson has just joined our project. He is a passionate saxophonist & vocalist and here you can listen to our new project song “Abeng Blaze”:

For your information:
Samson will produce a new project song quite soon. We are anxious :o)

Samson’s MySpace site:
www.myspace.com/samson_locks 

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“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
(cited of Kahlil Gibran)

Voila, our new project poster:

feel free to distribute it :o)

“It was a crusade, absolutely, … No one knew whether it would work, but the challenge was too great not to have a go at it.”
(Quote by Ed Turner)

Voila Ladies & Gentlemen,

That is our first official trailer of our project!
Many, many thanks to Jacqueline and Roger who have produced this great trailer.

And now enjoy it :o)

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
(quote by Robert Nesta Marley)

We are happy that another band from Huddersfield (UK) have joined our project. Player please compose a music style of Breakbeat, Hip Hop, and Rock.

And now you can listen our new project song “Django”:

PlayerPlease’ MySpace site:
www.myspace.com/playerpleasemusic

“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
(Quote by Samuel Butler)

An exciting weekend at the IFMA in Cologne has just passed by.
For those of you who are not familiar with this term its the ‘International Bicycle Trade Show’, which is one of the most popular bike trade fair conventions in Germany.
We were invited by grenzgang* to present our project at the Long Distance Bikers Convention.

So it was great to attend the trade fair as exhibitors, and not just visitors :0)
It also meant a lot of preparation for our exhibition stand -  Pictures coming soon!

Highlights of the weekend:

• Marco’s Saturday interview on stage.

• Marco’s much improved Sunday interview on stage. (video clip coming soon)

• An enormous amount of positive feedback from exhibitors and visitors, who were enquiring, and looking at our stand  - even pinching some dried fruit - courtesy of Bigfoot - thanks Bigfoot!

• Displaying our promo/documentary on the monitor (many, many thanks to our friends & parnters in UK)

• Two wonderful evenings with our hosts in Cologne (many thanks again to Peter and Kristina)

• And the conclusion: Thank Goodness we still have some Aspirin.

See you folks.
Martin

NOTE:
* grenzgang - forum for expeditions, cultures and media;
See more information to grenzgang on our previous Blog post: “Our Project Plan: Project presentation at the trade show IFMA“