I ended up staying a bit longer in Sweden then I had planned, mainly because I had to fix my car. I didn´t mind though, did a bunch of concerts, the conditions for climbing were good+I had more time to spend with my family. Anyways. Right when the car was fixed it was time to move on. I had planned to do the 25 hours+ drive to Catalunya my self. But at our 10 years anniversury gig with my band Giddabush (www.giddabush.com, www.myspace.com/giddabush) some old friends I didn´t expect showed up, two of them Leo Houlding+Richard Ekehed. Richard ended up coming along for the ride.

Everything went well, first up was Rodellar. Usually this place is out of season right now but due to the unusually dry season this year we got some really nice days there. After a restday we headed down to Margalef where we also teamed up with Dani, Andrea, Sam Bié, Laurent Thrié, Andoni Perez and some other local mutants. Relatevily unknown this place is world class. I was there the first time this spring and got surprised it hadn´t got more attention. After some days there it was time to go Santa Linya. There we met up with Chris and Daila. I was psyched to try a route I broke some holds of this last spring, Chris was on "la Noueva Enmienda" 9a+ and Dani was simply...psyched! Climbing, bolting -every day.

Chris getting some beta for "la Noueva Enmienda".

Vamos Chris, venga bitcho! Chris warming up by giving the 9a+ a really close shot.

Allthough this is the south of Europe beeing outside the sun is really freezing. The afterclimb was allwas gathered around the fireplace. A good place to pic up some spanish, or at least climbers spanish...a muerte tio!