Bjørn Heidenstrøm

Two old ladies walked faster then I was paddling at 1200 today. The stream is hard and its straight on the nose of Kjakan 24 ( the name of my ship ) – but Iv got happy news. 14000 Norwegian kroner in the bag for Red Cross and the missing…

Så jeg måtte ha meg noe fiks til skipet og han hyggelige ved kaien i Mainz sa; ”zer gut via Hauptbahnhof”. Jeg vet at det er jernbanestasjon. ”Bahne” vet jeg er toget. ”Strasse” vet jeg er gate og skrives med rar ”S”. Så når “einbahnestrasse” dukker opp som skilting så…

Motvind is Norwegian for wind against you… I want to hold 6 km in the hour. 7 is nice. 8 is great ! But the wind from my own Norway in the north pushes 4 to 5 km in my face. So Im on bad pace. Try standing on the…

Its 9 km to Mainz… The first man ever to paddle standing up from Basel to Mainz, 360 km, is and was Norwegian. The name of the ship is “Kjakan 24”. If Jens (pm) or Harald (king) is away from the office.. Please inform a mate that the flag is…

Don’t have internet, just posting by mobile… – use twitter, comments, or facebook or smoke signals 😉 From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

300 km done. Taking a hard right turn up the river Main in two days. Its not a main river. The name is Main and goes to Bamberg where some fine German men have made a channel that connects with Donau ( Danube ) .. So that channel is the…

So very nice! – its enormous, its cool. You have to go there! What? Where? Well I do see those fantastic first who have donated to the missing children. I see the “likes” but can’t see the money from some pals. I can’t sweat for 10 hours a day and…

40 more KM’s and I’ll be there:-) Bjørn, @Heidenstrom on Twitter.

The proof of the river pudding….. The sign says something like; “get your piece of ship up of the water or the turbins will harv you up like a Turkish kebab and you will die and no one will ever find you!..” Bjorn @Heidenstrom ,a nd if your a old…

As you can see, if you want to see… 😉 The hardest thing is to carry 25 kilo around water ports, and to walk ca 6 km with the same 25 Kilo to find a sleeping place. It brings my speed on the board down to 3 km pr hour.…