Sigh, while we local residents of the Faroe Islands are suffering from the seasonal rain (starting in May and ending in April), Pál Joensen has travelled to […grumble…] Gold Coast, Queensland, to train under the legendary Denis Cotterell, coach of Grant Hackett and now Jordan Harrison. Pál comments from Australia: “It is going very well, here. We are training extremely hard, almost every session, and working a lot on technique.”

To put it in perspective, here are my kids having fun last Saturday, balancing on a slippery PVC tube a few meters up during our annual ‘summer’ trip with the IT company I work at. You have to respect Pál for being able to adapt from this, to seemingly enjoy posing outdoors in budgie smugglers in subtropical Australia :-P