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

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, the pictures of our IFMA visit as promised

Ahoy,

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“

The design has been refurbished, all photos has been adapted, an interactive world map for the route (see website: “Expedition“), a new Guestbook and an enhanced communication structure for search engines has been developed.

Many thanks to our webmaster Jo!

Dear all,

On November, 23 there was the awarding ceremony in Essen (DE) for the best events and fairs’ participants in the year 2007.

Julia and I were invited to take part in it. We have had a very interesting evening full of inspiration and exciting projects out of the branch. After the awarding and meet & greet, we got in contact with many people which gave us many valuable hints for our project. We will use these to keep the project on a high level and awake interest to it out of the branch itself. Especially, this is all about the world record attempt and the start off in May 2008. Yet, many ideas are looked forward to be set up.

In the end, again a thank you to Marco for his trust in our work there and in general.

From our side, we wish you all an Advent of reflection and a happy new year because we are now going back out for a while to Hong Kong (CH) and a creative break.

Best Regards

Julia & Martin, the project manager

Here are some snapshots, such as a making-of.
The actual press photos are now in post-production and will be published soon.