start – middle – end

Finished being a landscaper! the yard is finished. well atleast for me. they only need to do some touch ups but the guys had to move on to another job (tight schedule..) they will return next week for a day or 2 but im done over here. Below a pic of three weeks ago. I have some new ones but no time to get them on the computer yet. no time really to be posting this message either but what the hey. (the pool looks way better now;))

Goals for the next month is finding another job, a cool van, start taking driving lessons (comes in handy when i want to use my oh so cool van!;)) And becomming 22 but remaining 21. Im also going to create “transports of delight”. its going to be a large banner with inspiration for our trip. When the banner is full of pictures and other things possible i hope we can make a decision of whether its going to be a roadtrip or backpacking & also where all this will take place! I’ve already found some pics but they’re not on the banner yet. As soon as i’ve made a start ill update the page!

Lets get started!
Bartorious

After many days of thinking what to write for my dear readers of the sometimes weekly, now monthly news posts, I’ve finally come up with some points.

First of all I’d like to inform you all that I’m sitting in the sun writing this on a peace of paper without a shirt on! Yes dear readers, the sun is that nice. Not to make you entirely jealous, I won’t walk around like this cause the wind is still pretty cold. No picture tho cause that would make you entirely jealous ( ha-ha )

Saumur is coming up and for the ones who don’t know, It’s an international vaulting competition. I’ve been asked by the Belgian team to help them out with their compulsories since one of them is injured. Well.. asked.. It sort of happened automatically. Rob and I have been training for a while now but last week i was getting nervous already. It’s weird cause I’ve never been like this before a competition. The reason is I know I can improve so much on some exorcises in a short period of time. I know cause I’ve been better and this period I’ve been abroad I’ve worked a lot on my physical skills. Ah well.. 1,5 week to go.

Which reminds me, after Saumur I’m planning on going home again. I’m in need for money ever-since there is another great trip ahead. So “The End?” NO! I’m also a bit done living with just a few pounds and euro’s. I do want to continuous vaulting when i come back, so if anyone in the vaulting world is reading this… I’m also looking for a well paid job. (attention! well paid is underlined)

Some business talk: Robs website is going great. It’s really looking good and working nice. I’ve finished the logo for theDutchdesigner.com and the website itself is starting to shape up as well.

Any good?

Clouds are forming, the sun is away, my t-shirt is back on, so a good time to stop writing. Might be the last greetings from France…

Ps. It will be nice seeing everyone again.

when i was running un the beach i encountered this:

which made me do this:

no time to make it all nice hha

tour de france! 1e etappe

een Dinsdag update…. I’ve been busy quite a lot last weeks. i’ve now been working with Phil for a couple of weeks and i will continuous working until next weeks friday/saturday! then from 13 till 20 December i will take a holiday (haha just started working and then already going for a holiday…). No the reason i’m taking a holiday is because it will be my last week here in Scotland this year and Dieter, former trainer and now friend of mine is coming over for a week! i’m exited because i’m finally going to see something Scotland is know about! think about loch ness, william wallace, highlands, etc. the main idea is to travel a couple of days through Scotland. we’ll see what happens exactly.

i drove a car here! haha. let it stand still in the middle of the road but on a second try it went pretty good and the girls where speaking alright about me as a driver. (yes, there’s a voice in the back of my head who says ‘bart.., thats women speaking positive, not men’.

anyway.., more news and stories soon.

cheers buddies!

im sitting and living in a van right now.. feels like camping haha. i swapped from ross his place to phil’s two days ago. where our party started in Edinburgh it ended in Glasgow. and how… ill show you a nice video..

helped phil a bit yesterday and it seems like i will have some work over here. so far so good. yesterday morning i had a quick look around and phil has a pretty nice gym. trampoline, barrels the whole thing. the only encounter though is that he only trains once a week on a horse. struggling a wee bit with that (Scottish for a little bit). but we will figure out something.

// will post a picture of the van soon.

goals; did a little bit of barrel training yesterday. there are three barrels over here so that wont be a problem. havent been jumping on horses yet so no updates about my mount.

- mount into handstand
- daily barrel training
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- need/want&going to work on my lower abbs and arm muscles