Europe 2006

Now into week eight of the 2006 European sand tour.
The tour started in Brighton (UK) then proceeded up to Great Yarmouth.
A few days holiday in London and then on to the continent where I traveled up to Travemunde in Germany.
Then it is on to Brugge. First I am spending time in Amsterdam and with a beautiful friend Charlotte in Breda.
Besides the hard work the job of producing sculpture for public display most gratifying. The time off is filled with adventure.

Jack Frost and PEI

This latest trip is to Prince Edward Island on Canada's east coast. I am here as part of a team producing a winter children village for the Jack Frost festival. The weather is cooperating although the first day gave us rain and the second was unseasonable warm. The cold is very welcome and it sure helps to keep the ice and snow from melting, the man made snow. It seems that the warm weather has depleted most of the snow from a storm that blew through the area just a few days before our arrival.
It's great to be on the other coast of Canada. The people I am meeting are fantastic and I'm very excited to finally be on the opposite side of the country from where I live.

Korea

Well I'm sitting in the lounge close to leaving from Seoul Korea. This was an awesome trip with many new friends. Team Canada sculpted in Taebeck, north South Korea. The snow pile was not the greatest but all teams were dealing with the same stuff so we all persevered. The four teams from Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and the Netherlands all worked together on one piece which was praying hands. Each team also completed their own sculpture.
The experience was excellent and the people were fantastic. I would definitely recommend coming for a visit, which can be made quite inexpensively if you travel light and stay at the many saunas around the country.
Big cities like Seoul are a trip to be in. The shear volume of people and the freedom which they actually enjoy is a change compared to the repressed freedom we in North America have to deal with. There is so much activity, so much bustle and so much to see do and shop for, that weeks are really needed to make the most of it. None the less it was without question one of the best places I have been. It's a shame I have too leave, I will get used to the lack of freedom back home soon enough I'm sure.
I wish North American's weren't so easily swayed to think that there is freedom in these countries. Get out and see what freedom and choice are all about. The rest of the world has more freedom and they don't have too try to sell it.