Hey everybody! we are now back home in Stockholm,Sweden!

We had an amazing trip and a experience that will last a lifetime! We have been home for 2 days and already we want to go travelling again :)

We have slept with bears, we have gambled in Las vegas and drove around in Los Angeles crazy traffic.We have hiked up the mighty half dome in the beatiful Yosemite National Park!

 We have made fools of ourselves in a bar in auckland and we have stumbled to the ground only hanging from rubber bands and we have surfed with dolphins and sharks and crazy surfer dudes(we dont know what is worse of those 3 haha:))

And of course, Kilroy Travels and The Voice,Air New Zealand,Gouda,Trek America,Sony Ericsson,Parlino,humac and Connections Adventures! Thanks for making this trip possible and good luck in the future! hope to see you all again.

Finally,we want to say to all you out there! Save some money, go travel we promise you wont regret it! And of course, a big thank you to all of you who supported us during our trip and voted for us! love you all!

 ps. i know there is a lot of photos from inside some bar but we spent a lot of time there in london :) great partyplace,london! try it out sometime!

Now we have had 2 days in Hong Kong,we have been enjoying the last 2 days with strange food, shopping and trying to understand the locals:)
Yesteray we did some sightseeing during the day up to the Peak View, with a 360 panoramic view of hong kong, amazing!! We walked around the central hong kong and then in Kowloon, where all the locals live and all the markets and stuff like that are, and where we also live.

In the evening we went to a kareoke restaurant/bar called The Green Box, where you get your own room with Tv and karaoke equipment.
And there we had our first hong kong challenge, The Karaoke Challenge.. we had some food and plenty of beers and we all got to sing one song, and the best ones won :) it was a really great thing to do, we really recommend it if your'e in china!!
 We stayed there until 2 in the morning singing and dancing and enjoying ourselves, it truly was a great night! one of the best on the trip because its not every day you get to sing karaeoke like that! Later on we headed out for some clubbing.Some went home, some went out.. those who went out came home about 6am! hong kong never goes to sleep!

Today we had the next challenge, The Shopping Challenge!!! where we had to find 15 different items(wierd items like dried animals,jellyfish food,sexual improvement product,stamp with Around the world race text in chineese,postcard of hong kong airport,fortune cookie and more...) and believe it or not it was the fortune cookie that was hardest to find !!! :)
we got 13 out of 15 but so did denmark and norway, but they had more money left so they took 1st and 2nd place:(
After the thrilling shopping spree we went out for a traditional chineese food with a spinning table and many many wierd dishes :0After that, shopping of course! Lots of shopping :)
Tomorrow we are flying to london for the finals! make sure to see who wins!
And remember, everything can change in london !

Thats all for us! Bye
And dont forget to vote for team sweden :)

Elinor&Mattias



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Hey everyone!!

We just came back from todays challenge, The Aboriginal Challenge!

we went to a aboriginal culture park and met up with a aboriginal dude who helped us do our 5 challenges for today, spearthrowing,bush eating,boomerang throwing,body paint and aboriginal dance :)

we had a really fun day! it was...very different :)

it went well for us in the beginning but then we had some bad luck and came last place! but that does'nt matter beacause we had a great day and a lot of fun! see the pictures !

now we are off to dinner and some beers beacause sadly, this is our last night in australia :(

tomorrow we are off to HONG KONG!!! YEAH! :)

cya there!

hey everyone!!

We are having a great time here in australia, today we went rafting on the mighty Tully River, with 44 rapids and 13km of action!

It was a challenge of course, we found out early this morning when malin told us at 6.20 am we where going rafting! Everybody was very happy, its not every day you get to go rafting on one of the best rafting rivers in the world!

So we headed off with Raging Thunder Rafting with a busload of people, stopped at their cafe and got our own bus because we where going on the Extreeme Team! :)

4 hours of rafting including barbeque half way was the plan for the day! And what a day! Combination of joy,fear,action and hard work and a lot of sun and a funny guide we made it to the finnish line! We had two boats,1 from each team in 1 boat, elinor went with Dk Michael,NO Michael and Mikko, Mattias went with antti,michelle and erle!

The challenge was NOT to fall in the water! team sweden managed not to and so did team norway, unfortunatly finland and denmark did so it was between Sweden and norway, at the end of the day after a tie breaker, team sweden won their first challenge! WOOOHOOO!!!!

we got santa and well needed points and we couldnt be happier! we have now almost catched up to the other teams, and we are now more eager than ever to win!

Now we are off for dinner and some celebrations i think!,

Have a great time until next time!

Mattias&Elinor

Today I went to an amazing island outside of the coast in australia, cairns! the thunderbolt boat took about 25 minutes and it was a veeery bumpy ride! but god damn it was fun! at this tropical island at the great barrier reef I snorkled in my very very VERY sexy scuba diving suit and scared of my life got lost in the rainforest and yes, of course, elinor almost got killed by an evil green snake. parrots, crazy birds and a lot of lizards where enjoying the sight of a swedish girl running around in the rainforest. It was a really cool experience and I definetly recomend anyone in the mood of a true tropical adventure going there! kilroy travel arrange trips over there! So look at the pictures, a picture can tell more then thousand words! see ya!

elinor


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Allright, we are now offical surfers! we picked up 4 campervans from sydney and headed up along the coast towards brisbane! We first drove to Mojo Surf Camp at crescent head . a really nice spot hidden in the middle of nowhere and a untouched beach just behind the houses...perfect! we had a bonfire at night and the day after we got up early to catch the waves! we got a lesson from our instructor Andy and then we went into the water.. surfing is hard work!! we surfed for a while to get the feeling for it, then we headed of for the next mojo surf camp above coffs harbour, Spot X!

there we surfed some more to get some practise for the big surf challenge the next day! after that we had a nice barbeque at the surf camp and had some beers and had good times! the perfect life!

Next day, time for the big challenge! we had a great time and good waves! yeah dude!

After that we headed of for brisbane in our cool "Eurovans" as they call them here coz there are only europeans who has them :)

in brisbane we returned the cars and took a flight up to cairns,where we are right now!

have a look at the pictures and check out Elinors trip out on the reef !

Elinor&Mattias

Hello everybody!! We have arrived in Australia!

we came yesteday and we are living in central sydney! Last night we took a walk to darling harbour and had some dinner then off to sleep! but today we had our first challenge in Australia! The Travel Report Challenge! we had to make a minumim 30 second travel report video with something about sydney! Watch the movie here on the site it is already uploaded! It was great fun we got on top of the harbour bridge and we had spectacular views of the whole city almost. Sydney really is a great city! So people, i hope this will make us catch up on the other teams, we really need it:)

And where we are going next, we have no idea! but i bet it is something we will enjoy! we are taking lots of photos now so stay tuned for our australia trip!

Now we are off to do some sightseeing before we have to leave!

take care everybody!

Mattias&Elinor

today it became an early morning. cold as hell outside and freezing inside the room! But what the hell, we're in queenstown with the atw race and having the time of our lives!

yesterday we went to do the canyon swing, a mighty free fall followed by a swing trough the shotover canyon, and then we went to flybywire and flew a plane in a wire :) look at the pictures.

the challange today was a quite mighty bungy from not less than a 134 meters! in the mittle of a canyon! mattias, crazy as he is, made the jump with a smile! elinor on the other hand freaked out. Due to a knee condition Elinor had to go to another bungy jump where you're straped on to the hips and not to the feets. but looking down the hills and the 50 meter (and also the 400 beyond sealevel) it didn't relly make any sense doing this! Hights is definetly NOT my thing! me and the cameraman are chickens! :-)

well well, just wait! sweden is gonna catch up, have faith in us! looking forward to australia and new challanges! :-)

Tonight it's party party we're gonna rock Queenstown until the sun rise!

oh yeah!

piffapuff

Yeah we have arrived in the beatiful city of Queenstown,NZ!! We are in the middle of some challenges!

YEsterday we took the gondola up on a mountain here in QT and went luging,that is sitting in small luges and go downhill! It was really really fun! there is pictures so go have a look! Later that evening we had dinner up in the gondola top restaurant, it was elinors birthday as well and everybody got some really nice food and a very good evening!

Now we are off for our next challenge!!!!! wish us luck