We caught up with Sandra and Sven in Vienna for dinner and a bit of sightseeing the next morning:
Patti (my old flatmate) came to join my support team for the World Champs - Go NZ! 
This was an excursion organised by the WC organisers, to Lake Bled. Eva (Denmark), Penny (Oz), someone else on the boat, wierd over-enthusiastic tour guide guy, Maria (Denmark) and Barbara (Germany).
We put some faces to names at the World Champs. This is Ben(ny Boy) Noble from the land of Oz (living in London). This is after the WC but before the after party, taken in our fab high school hostel room.
The pre-party drinks grew... From left to right we have Penny (Ben's wife) from Australia, Eva from Denmark (the Danes brought some very strong liquor which help them to forget the entire evening from about the prizegiving onwards), Liv from London, Ben & Braedon:
The Danish liquor went around the room. Martin from Germany, Maria from Denmark, and Patti from NZ:
I can't remeber this guy's name so if someone could prompt me that'd be great. THe shocked girl is Elizabeth from Norway, with Britt from Denmark behind and you can just see a bit of Rhys' forehead (Ozzy living in London).
Not sure who these two guys are (think they're Americans), but this is Junko from Japan (she trains in Hawaii) and Annabelle from Hawaii:
In London we caught up with Debbie and Anna from NZ.
... and Penny, Jeremy (my old flatmate) and Ben (again after WC):
In London we slept on the floor of Mike and Jane's little row house flat. They're Kiwis too.
Amber and Todd came and stayed with us in Paris while charging around the world. They're Kiwis too...
Patti stayed with us in Paris for about a week. Jeremy and Anna came over from London for a weekend. This photo was in one of the many queues at the Eiffle tower...
In Aix-en-Provence Heidi and Shaun gave us a bed and were wonderful hosts showing us the local sights.
This is their daughter Maia. She's got such a great place to grow up among the vines in the sunny South of France - and they have a pool!
In Berlin we stayed in Sandra's apartment while she stayed with her boyfriend Sven (remember we met up with them in Vienna earlier), not too far away. We met Sandra in 2003 when she was in NZ doing her masters and we were her Kiwi Connections VUW alumni hosts.
We caught up with Braedon's cousin Amber and met her German hubby Heiko in Berlin, and they showed us some local sights:
We also caught up with my old Wellington scuba diving buddy Stefan and his partner Miriam in Berlin. They cooked us a very nice meal. We also got to meet their daughter Helena. Unfortunately she had gone to bed when I took this photo, but never fear...
Stefan took us to the airport the next day and brought Helena along:
In Singapore we stayed with Tom and Chris, who were fantastic hosts - they looked after us very well.
So, thanks to everyone who gave us a bed to sleep in during our travels. And it was great to catch up with some friends we haven't seen for a while and put some faces to names in the freediving world.
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I can't remeber this guy's name so if someone could prompt me that'd be great.
That is Daan Verhoeven from the Netherlands.
Not sure who these two guys are (think they're Americans)
Left guy is Kevin Busscher from the USA. Guy standing besides him is Russian Igor Migunov living in the Netherlands
Yes, strong liqour at the afterparty, it's becoming a nasty habit, but I will try to behave better next year. Great party though, I forgot to eat, so the black-out occured before desserts (if there were any?) and I only remember a few embarrassing moments
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