Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, nicknamed: The Snow Leopard, will be the first skiier from Ghana to take part in the winter olympics. He will be attending the games in Vancouver, Canada. For some reason it made me thing of the movie Cool Runnings. (by the way, there will be a Jamaican bobsled team this year).

More info on: www.ghanaskiteam.com or join his facebook fan club.

A nice day at the Red Bull Knock Out beach race. More pictures here.

This weekend I went to our tropical dutch island ‘Texel’ for a tandem skydive. It was really an amazing experience. Going up in a small plane to a height of about 3km, where you could enjoy a great view of the island and the top part of Holland (and we really do have a small country).

I was the last one to get in, which also ment, I was the first one to get out. With the instructor behind me I was hanging out of the plane for a couple of seconds and then falling down. With a speed of appr. 200km/h we were going down for about 30 seconds and then a couple of minutes with the opened parachute.

I made some pictures which can be viewed here

We got back from our Switzerland adventure yesterday night. It was worth every mile of driving. The city of Bern was completely filled with people in orange. I would guess about 90%, the rest was in blue (France) or from another country. Really amazing!

There were 3 big squares with huge televisions to see the matches. The weather was great and I didn’t see any fights or whatever. It was like queensday in Amsterdam. The people from Bern didn’t know what happened to them and their city. One big party. And even they were supporting the dutch mannschaft.

Ofcourse the match was great and we were lucky to be there with such an important match, which was also very attractive to watch. The following day we did some site-seeing and discovered that the city is actually really nice without all the dutch supporters.

Enjoy the pictures!

Today I’m going for a quick visit to Bern (Switzerland) for 2 days, with two of my friends. The reason? To support the Dutch football team at the European Championship. We don’t have tickets for the match, but we will head to the Orange square in the center.

They expect 50.000 people there, so I guess it will be a little crowded. After our 3-0 victory against the current world champion hopes are really high. We are going to see the match Netherlands-France. I’ll keep you posted.