15 minutes of fame....

So, been to Galway a week and back in Göteborg again! Great stopover with a lot of public and great sailing in Saturday's Inport race. It rained, was cold and windy the first days, but in time for the big weekend the sun came out and we had very good weather and wind. Had a good day together with our Volvo guests on Saturday. Helped our Ericsson commentator Jimmy to make sure he had what he needed. He's the IT guy from Ericsson handling all the computers on board the boats and on shore. Turned out he is from Järfälla and currently live in Bolinderstrand in Kallhäll. The world is small sometimes, but I'm staying far away from IT guys these days.. :-) On Sunday I got the treat to go out with Mark Covell, used to be Media Crew Member on Team Russia, on the media boat that is going to follow the race boats the rest of the race from Galway to St Petersburg. It is purpously built for a film crew to be able to film regardless high waves etc and the boat is strong enough to be able to follow the speed of the race boats. We had a great day in the sun on the water and Mark is a great speaker and told us all the little details about the boats and the teams. Finished the day with a great Leg Prize Giving Dinner where it got way too late and too much white wine... Mark was a gentleman and kept filling up my glas at dinner... It didn't do much good either the two beer Edward and I had before even getting to the dinner... (Strange I didn't learn from Leg Prize Giving Dinner in Boston, but at least this time there were no shots...)
And I finally got caught on the TV4 camera and had my 15 minutes of fame at TV4! (or maybe one minute to be exact...)
http://tv4play.se/sport/volvo_ocean_race?videoId=1.1027677&renderingdepartment=2.34731
About 7 minutes into the film when they're interviewing Bowe Bekking, skipper of Telefonica Blue, when coming back to shore and we're standing in the background talking about the day. (One for the "Jag mötte Lassie", I was the one telling Marcus from TV4 that Bowe Bekking was on his way, so they could do the interview...)
So, no rest! Came back yesterday night and spent a full day at work to start to sort out the mess in Marstrand to finally give up at 21 this evening. The stopovers from here are so tight so there is really no time between them and it's full on from now on.
I hope to be able to visit my little house this weekend as the neighbours wanted to cut the hedges, even if I move out to Marstrand already Friday evening, and hopefully also visit Anneli Utter on my way out to Marstrand. If I get a few minutes over I will try to upload some images from Galway, but I don't dear to promise anything...
So soon we will be in Stockholm and I hope to meet most of you then!