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It has been a long year, stuck in the UK all winter. But with my PGCE course over and a job secured for September, I have a bit of time to play with…  So before my 5 week jolly to Russia, Emily and I decided a 2-week warm  up holiday in The Alps would be just lovely. ...

Well I didn’t get off to the best of starts; I Arrived at Heathrow only to find that my visa wasn’t going to be valid until the day after I touch down in Moscow. So pay the fine and book onto tomorrow’s flight. The following morning however I am all ready to fly, once I’ve haggled down my excess baggage fees.

Kayak USSR Kitoy Trip – a.k.a. ‘Fat Camp’

It’s 3am UK time and I’ve had little-to-no sleep since I left. However I am in Irkutsk and Vasiliy is telling me (in what he calls Monkey English) that my journey begins now. So I try to assemble all the things I might need for a 10 day expedition on the Kitoy River, where we shall be hundreds of kilometres from any notable civilisation and surrounded by mountains.

NSR 2008: The Movie! Released as Podcast

The award winning National Student Rodeo 2008 Movie has now long since sold out. In light of this, I have released the 24 minute extravaganza on the Liquid Satisfaction podcast: http://www.maxbilbow.com/?feed=podcast Download the movie or watch the trailer in the videos section.

So over the past seven months I have been trying to pass my induction year as a newly qualified Maths teacher. As a result of this –  in the seven Months since I returned from Russia – I have been burning the candle in a particularly inefficient way. I have there for decided that I will not likely find the time to write an appropriate story to accompany the following photos. However there will be more detail available for those of you who are following the development of Means of...

Filming for Means of Production 2 has been continuing in Corsica! But it hasn’t all been simple fun and games; oh no. April 4th: Lucy and Luke picked me up from my grandmother’s house in London and we shot off at high speed to catch our ferry. However things took a turn for the inconvenient when Luke’s radiator exploded just before...

I will eventually write a couple of thorough articles regarding this year’s Norwegian Odyssey. However, for the time being, I will be fulfilling my duty as a Pyranha Team Van driver on the Team Van Blog: www.pyranha.com/teamvan Photos and other little updates (including the odd video) will appear on the Team Van Facebook page.

It’s been a pretty tough year and, after temporarily quitting teaching, I was more than happy to represent Pyranha by taking the Team Van around Norway and Sweden. First stop: Picking up fellow team paddler, Paula Volkmer, from her house in North London. Some hard labour  was needed to reorganising the van but we got everything in without squashing a...

Every year, the Sjoa River Festival kicks off with the Pimp & Ho party. This year, the British and Irish representatives kicked into action quickly to make this video: Read more about it here: Click me.

Dan and I arrived in Dala-Floda (Sweden), for the Masters of Water festival, after a month of rainy times in Norway. A friend of mine, Mikael, recommended checking out the big rapid up the road, so we did. It was big, and would probably be very fun in our playboats, but the sun came out giving us a rare chance to dry out kit out and… LOOK at this awesome...

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