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Yesterday, arrival at 21:00. we left deauville at 18:30. shortest ride to saumur so far. pretty nice! so on our ‘wij zijn de mannen van de nacht’ & ‘de soup is aangebrand’ way we had to arrange a place for me to stay cause i had only arranged a place for fri. sat. and sunday. rob called and i text some people. that didnt work out until we arrived. i got to stay with the belgian team for a night. im very thankful cause otherwise i would have to pay another 75,- for the night and i was thinking of spending those on food & drinks. glad i worked out this way. this morning i walked throught saumur for a while and after i went to see the vet. check. all dutch and belgian & brittish horses got through. bien! after that everyone went away getting their horses back in their box or went for training. i decided to go and have a look at the training and fortunately the current european champion just jumped on the horse. watching him do his training taught me some things i will remember. he left and i sat there atleast for another hour when i decided to go. after being outside for 4 hours i got pretty cold and wanted something warm to eat or drink. lucky me, it was raining. so before i arrived i got soaking wet. i just finished my hot chocolate with cream and enjoyed the time being alone thinking about random things and ofcourse writing this!

soon more to come:)
a tout

//update 2
So…. I simply did not have time to update anymore since there was too much going on. In short; i had a great time. This year Saumur was great. Met some really nice people and enjoyed. Friday night was the bomb haha!(sory patrick ).

Saumur 2011?

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.

First Rob and i was next. I’ve been ill the last couple of day’s. Well i was ill on wednesday. Yesterday and today i felt a lot better but still weak. Now today i’m feeling a bit better then the days before. Lets hope for me i’ll be the normal me again at the beginning of next week. If the wind is coming from the south you better stay in cause it’s not such a nice flu.

Good news after bad news.
A Belgian horse is coming tomorrow together with the owner and her daughter of the owner which is one of the Belgian vaulters. I dont know for how long they’re staying but i’m looking forward to there arrival. The horse will stay so Rob and I can train the horse for the Belgians and at the same time it will be some training for me too. Must feel a bit weird jumping on the horse again but i’m looking forward. Now all we need is some good weather, a horse with a good attitude and no more flu’s.

So where were we.
Tour the France round 2&3, and a new bourne foal! The little guy is round 2 weeks old now and it’s a special one. It might be one of the or the most special frisian horse out there at the moment. His mother has one of the most rare blood lines there are and same goes for his father. Lets hope for the family the little guy becomes a beautiful stallion.
Remarkable things in round 2 of the Tour de France. A beautiful old building in center of Trouville. 15000,- Ferrari kiddy car in a toy store. One “forbidden don’t go any further than this” sign isn’t enough, three should do the job. And I found a bakery whom sold ham&cheese croissants. Enjoy the pictures!

Final thoughts.
I’ve been thinking about a certain subject which is playing at the moment and it made me realize that the core of man kind is getting taught what to do, some years ago work and nowadays school and work afterwords. Even when i was at home i realized that there are so many things to see or do on earth. Everyone knows about it via radio, television & internet but still sooo many people stay at home start working, build up some sort of a career and a family usually follows. I would suspect that ever-since the possibilities are really becoming endless that at-least half of the new generation would go abroad and travel or work and travel. And by traveling i don’t mean going to Australia for a year (No offense for the people who have done or are doing that). I do to want to go to Australia but the point is what keeps us so…. boring? Where is the curiosity, our number one characteristic? Why does everyone always have to think about their future and in the end money? You dont have to get your son a 15000 ferrari, he’ll enjoy a ball or a bike probably more..

So, where were we….

last two weeks ive been pretty busy doing work for phil, and starting up with other projects. My website is online for the one who’s interested! www.thedutchdesigner.com. So spread the word! haha. Training hasn’t been great last 2 weeks. dont remember what happened two weeks ago.. but last week Neil was over! I had so much fun. Could do it over and over again. i’ve got some photo’s of saturdays halloween but i think Neil agrees on me by not putting them online haha. So if you want to see them….. fly over haaaa!

hope family and friends are doing good! next week some more photos. cant be bothered putting some online right now to be honest :p. training in a couple of minutes. a proper one!

groetjes vanuit schotland,
McFly

laten we beginnen met een mooi plaatje!

those mountains are my every day view:)! they can look boring too so dont be that jealous.. hha.

Poster for Phil is almost done.. going good! im glad he’s happy with it too. if its finished ill put it online. my website is almost done as well so you guys can almost start advertising for me :p.

This weekend were the Scottish champs. it was boring at times but it was fun to see some of the vaulters i know. also got a call that day from ricky (some of you know who) and we will meet somewhere next week. will be good:). some photo’s of this day:

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