AUS120.com™ – Sean O’Brien, Tour Diary

Leaving my James Bond experience in Lake Garda behind, I continued on my epic drive north through the Austrian Alps and then Germany onwards to my home in northern Holland. With a bit of foresightedness mixed with some sheer pot-luck I managed to pick a very sunny and clear day to drive from Lake Garda in [...]

So in the process of filming one of the car chases in the latest Bond 007 film Quantum of Solace, some crazy stuntman managed to crash Bond’s Aston Martin DBS (worth AUD$315,000) off the side of a cliff and plunge it into one of the most famous windsurfing lakes in Europe; Lago di Garda (Lake Garda). [...]

Today I had (almost) the first day’s sailing in Sardinia, Italy, since I arrived 5 days ago. The wind was from the south today so we drove for one hour through the windy mountain roads of southern Sardinia to a small beach in front of the Villagio Mandorli (some Italian resort, that appeared pretty closed for winter). The P7 [...]

With the rain and super cold weather in Holland the past few weeks, I couldn’t turn down an offer from Andrea Cucchi to come down to Sardinia and do some windsurfing in the warm and sunny conditions winter brings to Sardinia. Leaving Holland on Wednesday night I drove through Germany, Austria (across the Alps through [...]

Yesterday I travelled to a tv studio in Mijstrect for the filming of the Dutch version of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” tv show – De Grote Beurt, hosted by the lovely Jorinde Moll. A good windsurfing friend of mine, Dennis Littel somehow managed to get picked for the show and got his old and (at the [...]

Straight after the Nordic Championships in another part of Denmark, my Aussie gymnast friend Jarod and I decided we would visit one of the great themeparks of the World; LEGOLAND!! For those who don’t know, Lego is one of the greatest toys ever invented and most Australian children I can think of (as well as all the [...]