Equinox

This last fall like every year all the Fjord offices met together at a warm place. This time was the little island in front of Cannes. We spent a long weekend sharing the vision, projects and having a great time. Matti managed to capture this amazing picture in the middle of a thunder storm.

Violas birthday

Nice cake at our neighbours party.

Noels birthday

A few weeks ago Noel turned four. We had a great party with our friends kids. First we took them to Tanje's school gym where the kids had to go through an adventure circuit. Then we went home where we had a dinosaur party. the kids played for us in their improvised band.

Hace unas semanas tuvimos la fiesta de cumpleanos de Noel con los hijos de nuestros amigos. Primero los llevamos al gimnasio del colegio de Tanje donde tuvieron que hacer una gymcama. Luego fuimos a casa donde les esperaba una fiesta de dinosaurios. Al final nos tocaron unas canciones es su banda de musica improvisada.

Posting from Facebook

Woow, and now it is a full circle, I can post from anywhere and it goes everywhere :-)

Noel when listening the pirates song

Noel makes ungry bad pirate face
Noel pone cara de pirata feo y malo

Trip to Alavus

In August we visited one of the most beautiful landscapes I have seen in Finland. It was in our friends Suvi and Anthony where our kids learned fishing in a beautiful lake.

En Agosto visitamos uno de los paisajes mas hermosos de Finlandia. Fue enla cabana de Anthony y Suvi donde nuestro hijoa aprendieron a pescar en el lago.

Hong Kong

It seems to get harder and harder to post regularly. So there we go here there is a picture from Hong Kong, my favourite city in the world. The place is like waling in the middle of Blade Runner. I met with Tomi Ahonen there, we went to Disneyland and found amazing sea food in a remote village. FANTASTIC

Parece que es cada vez mas dificil escribir regularmente. Asi que ahi van unas fotos de G´Hong Kong, donde estuvimos este verano. Hong Kong es mi ciudad favorita. Alli estuvimos con Tomi Ahonen, visitamos Disneylandia, super curioso ser el unico occidental en las colas, y encontramos un sitio increible para comer marisco en un pueblo de pescadores remoto. FANTASTICO

Australia

Here we are in Australia. It all started with me finishing work still at the airport before leaving, but then I got business class seats. GREAT. I picked up Tanje and Noel from Bangkok 3 weeks ago. We had a bit of time and we went downtown. Big mistake because it was jammed. Back to the airport and we arrived to Sydney 6am. The arrival was shocking. Australian authorities are the most assertive I have seen. Dogs, regular checks, and paranoia about anyone trying to smuggle anything, QUARANTINE was the word all around. Sydney is super beautiful specially the water front and the opera, which is officially my favorite building in the world. We spent a few days mostly in the business district and around the seaside. We went to see whales, fantastic. It is awesome that they were just a about 4km from the harbor, and the ocean opens as soon as you cross the cliffs narrow.

Then we went to Cairns and spent a few days exploring Kuranda, Palm Cove and Port Douglas. The beaches from Palm Cove to Port Douglas are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. We saw the mangrove, the rainforest and the fauna, wallabies, cangaroos, koalas, cocodriles. The best was the trip to the coral reef. Where we spent the whole day. This was by far the best underwater experience I ever had. There was more diversity and colors that in the caribean or in Thailand. I saw a shark, Barremundi, hundreds of amazing corals and fishes.

Now we are in Melbourne, visiting Karoliina, Tanjes sister, and his boyfriend, Phillip. We went to see top of the highest residential building in the Southern hemisphere. And yesterday we went to Phillip island to see seals and penguins.

This weekend we go to the Great Ocean road and next week leaving to Honk Kong.

Tia Pilarin y Tio Manolo

Reunion in Alcaniz

Noel & Pablo

Family meeting Spring 2008

Spanish Flag day

Noel witnessed the Spanish Flag day in Saragossa

Noel presencio la jura de la bandera en Zaragoza

Captain Hook

Noel dressed like captain hook for the anniversary of the kindergarden.

Noel se vistio de Capitan garfio para el aniversario de su guarderia.

Trecking day in Nuuksio in Spring 08

My 36th birthday

Noel's new bike

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

Noel jumpping in Jamboree

Noel saltando en la Jamboree de scouts

Noel talks to Santa

Noel hablando con papa Noel

Santa and Noel

Here Santa tells Noel that remembers he promised to bring him an orange truck.

Aqui Santa Claus le dice a Noel que se acuerda de que le prometio un camion naranja.

Catching on the fly

Last summer we went to Stockholm and saw this birds catching food on the air.

Este verano fuimos a Estocolmo y vimos estas gaviotas lanzandose en el aire a coger lo que les tiraban

World Jamboree

Fantastic performance from a group of Kids from Murcia, Spain in the World Jamboree last Summer in the UK

Actuacion magnifica de un grupo de chavales de Murcia en la Jamboree mundial de scouts en inglaterra

Laia on the rocks

Laia rocking us all in her great performance for her birthday concert

fuimos con los Aaen al teatro de amrionetas.

Great Rock in the forest

Last fall when looking for Mushrooms in Nuuksio we found a great cliff in the middle of the forest.

Este Otono, cuando vuscabamos setas en el bosque enontramos un risco tremendo en mitad del bosque.

Noel in Tanjes birthday

Noel en el cumple de Tanje

Noel met Santa

Santa Claus vino a casa anoche para darle un monton de regalos a Noel.

Santa Claus came yesterday home yo bring a lot of gifts to Noel

Strange boat

A strage boat from the pier works in front the office

Una balsa extrana de las que trabajan en el dique en frente de la oficina

Caga tio

A few weeks ago, we were in Laia's house for the Caga tio. This is a very funny catalonian tradition where the kids feed a piece of wood, then cover it with a blanquet and wait till the wood deliver some gifts.

Hace unas semanas fuimos a casa de Laia para celebrar el caga tio. Es una tradicion catalana donde los peques dan de comer a un troco y luego le tapan con una manta para darle con un palo gritando, caga tio, y asi el tio les da regalos.

Car with a message

Noel in Muumi's day

Noel got dressed for the Muumi day.

Noel se disfrazo para el dia de Muumi en el cole.

Santas Parade

A few weeks ago we went to see Santas parade and a coupe of reporters ffrom Helsingin Sanomat interviewed Noel.

Hace unas semanas fuimos a ver la procesion de Santa Claus y unos reporteros de Helsingin Sanomat entrevistaron a Noel y Tanje

Belen in the farm

A few days ago we went with Jesper and Emmi to see a living "Christmas" representation in a farm nearby.

Hace unos dias fuimos a ver un belen viviente en una granja cerca de casa.

Santtu and Tiinas Wedding

The last wedding of the year was with Santtu and Tiina. The got married in the Saksalainen Kirkko and the dinner was in a fantastic place in Arabia.

La ultima boda del anyo fue la de Santtu y Tiina. Se casaron en la iglesia alemana y la cena fue en un sitio preciosos en Arabia.

Trip to Salou

We visited Salou in October and guess what, is amazing. We will never go there anymore in August :-) My parents and brothers visited us. We saw Joan and Kaija came from Barcelona

Estuvimos en Salou en Octubre y fue fantastico. Nos visitaron mis padres y hermanos y cenamos con Joan y Kaija vino desde Barcelona para vernos.

Transporting furniture over the frozen sea

I found a nice picture of last year when we took some furniture to the island over the ice with Hans' sledge over the frozen sea. That was the last week you could go over the ice last winter.

Encontre una buena foto de cuando llevamos el invierno pasado unos muebles a la isla con el trineo de Hans. Esa fue la ultima semana para cruzar el mar congelado el invierno pasado.

Vitri Sul Mare

This is the hotel Raito in Vitri Sul Mare where we spent a few days in July

Este es el hotel Raito en Vitri sul Mare, donde pasamos unos dias en Julio

VJ Nuno

Nuno's show was brilliant.

El show de Nuno fue increible.

NUNO's performance

This was the setting of the projector, before it went into the water :-(

Esta es la preparacion de la actuacion de Nuno antes de que el projector fuera a parar al agua :-(

Fjord in Portugal

Last week Fjord spent a long weekend in South of Portugal. The trip was AMAZING. Great time at Kwame's parent village and fantastic time with Fjord.

La semana pasada las tres oficinas de Fjord fuimos a pasar un find largo al sur de Portugal. Fui INCREIBLE. Estuvimos en una aldea rural que llevan los padres de Kwame y visitamos tambien la costa.

We are in the Simpsons

Los yayos visited Villinki

And they were able to relax big time.

Y se relajaron de lo lindo.

Anttero and Armis wedding

Noel was thrilled by the princess, see his fingers...

Noel estaba encantado por la princesa, fijarse en sus dedos...

Visiting Alcaniz

We went to see Yaya Pilar and tio Juan Jesus and tia Mari, and in "La Estanca" La yaya show us who is in charge :-)

Fuimos a ver a la yaya Pilar, el tio Juan Jesus y la tia Mari, y en la estanca la yaya noe ensenyo quien manda :-)

Yayo and Noel

Javi and Noel

The summer house in Zaragoza

Noel enjoyed a lot the swimiing pool and the time with everyone.

Noel disfruto muchisimo la piscina y el tiempo que paso con sus tios y abuelos.

T4

Our holiday this year was divided in tow. First a trip to Spain to visit the family and attend the wedding in Lleida. But it started not so well, with a flight from Paris cancelled and then delays in the new T4 terminal in Madrid.

Nuestras vacaciones este verano han estado divididas en dos. La primera parte un viaje a Espana para visitar la familia y atender la boda en Lerida. El viaje no empezo bien, con el vuelo de Paris a Zaragoza cancelado y con retrasos en la terminal T4 de Madrid.

Finca Prats in Lleida

Jorge and Sara's reception was awesome, in Finca Prats.

La recepcion y cena fue espectacular, en la Finca Prats.

Inaki, Tanje and Riikka

Jorge and Sara's wedding

The third weding was early this summer in Lerida. Jorge and Sara had an amazing wedding where we met our friends from Salou.

La tercera boda de este verano fue en Lerida. Jorge y Sara tuvieron una boda increible donde coincidimos con nuestros amigos de Salou.

Iki y Nopo

Mo ja Papa

Me and Noel

Antti took a coouple of fantastic pictures of me and Noel at the wedding.

Antti saco un par de fotos buenisimas de mi y Noel

Jussi and Emmi's wedding

This summer we already had 2 weddings, and both were in the same place we got married seven years ago. The first one was Jussi and Emmi's.

Este verano hemos tenido ya dos bodas, y las dos fueron en la misma iglesia donde nos casamos hace ya siete anyos. La primera fue la del primo de Tanje, Jussi Sarkkula con Emmi.