Noel's first time skiing

It happened in Söll. And he loved it.

Fue en Söll y le encanto.

Noel and Emmi boarding to Austria

Neol y Emmi listos para subir al avion que nos llevaria a Austria para esquiar.

Noel and Tanje sledging

Noel first time sledging

La primera vez que Noel baja en trineo solo.

Noel cross country skiing

This has been the warmest winter in the history of Finland. But every chance there was a snowfall we went out with Noel. This time we tried for the first time cross country skiing in Paloheina.

Este ha sido el inviernos mas caliente de toda la historia de Finlandia. Asi que cada vez que nevaba cogiamos a Noel y saliamos fuera. Esta es la primera vez que Noel probaba esqui de fondo.

Behind the scenes

And this is how we made it happen. Xavier as master mind and me and Sebastien as his assistants.

Barcelona the grand finale

And we invited the singing girl, Iida to come next day to our booth to sing for Valentine's day. This last one, nobody took me seriously. But we did it and it was awesome. Xavier could not react when the girl came and starting singing. Christian could not believe it and then asked the girl for a song with no more reference than "Sting" and "Sun". He almost felt down when the girl guessed at first the song. Christian said "That is the best search engine ever". And the time froze at MWC for a few minutes.

and part 3

And then we started to talk to the barman, who just happened to be a former cook himself and had work at el Bulli with Ferran Adria. He told us about his plans of opening a innovative cocktail place using some of el Bulli techniques. Then David the cook and the barman engaged in an improvised exercise of prototyping vodka caviar and amazing caipirinhas. The barman closed only for us the place. Sebastien passed out.

And part 2

I opened the door and there was nothing but a barman, a few candles and an amazing voice coming from the end of the bar. There there were two girls, one of them was the assistant of the Finnish pavillion where we had the booth. The other was singing to her. We got in and We invited them for a few drinks in exchange for a few songs.

The barcelona story, part 1

It was Wednesday night we went for a dinner to Cerveceria catalan, where we ate for about 5 hours non stop. Chris loved the seafood. We bumped into some friends from Finland who stayed for a few drinks, Brian came stright from the airport. A couple of Swedes from Accenture gave us a bottle of wine on return for a a hint on the hottest club in town. It was 2am and we head south via the oldtown to find the take the last drink, but everything was closed. And then in the middle of the narrow streets of the old city we found a door with lights.

Fjord in Barcelona

Fjord was this year in Barcelona, and it was a blast. We brought with as famous french chef from Helsinki, David from la Place. We created a concept for introducing the one and only design company at Mobile World Congress. The concept meant a complete different approach than anyone else at the exhibition. We did not talk technology, we talked experiences by presenting a metafor of how chefs create food experiences. We encapsulated Fjord brand and values in an experience dessert, that it was produced and given at the booth by our chef. The result, awesome. Over 500 desserts served, all of them with a story. Super top prfile visitors, such as Elisa CEO, Samsung European MD. Amazing number of leads. A total blast.

New year at the Aaens

We spent New Year at the Aaen's with Mabel, the Jolas and Jesper father and sister, Mirelle and his boyfriend. That night I lost my voice and got fever after midnight. The kids and not so kids played Wii, and we launched a lot of rockets. And the best was to do the Spanish bells at midnight, with the help of Youtube and telecinco 2005, but we had to do it twice, eating the grapes two times because one of us missed the first time :-)

En nochevieja fuimos a casa de los Aaen, con Mabel, los Jolas, el padre de Jesper y su hermana, y Mirelle y su novio. Yo perdi mi voz despues de media noche, jugamos a la Wii y lanzamos cohetes. Y lo mejor de todo fue hacer las campanadas de navidad con You tube , video de telecinco 2005. Comimos las uvas dos veces porque uno de nosotros se lo perdio :-)

Mabel last Christmas in Helsinki