Of Acting and Cycling

After a long time pursuing music and other interests, I am about to splash back into acting, with a couple of things in the pipeline. The new showreel will be ready in the near future, I am head-shotting and the new site will be up and running soon too. Watch this space!

I will also be keeping you entertained (I hope) with tales about another of my great - new - loves. I have become a bit of a cycle-nut over the past years, and like the great Robin Williams have become pretty darn serious about the whole thing too. The switch from the utilitarian Dutch perspective on cycling -how to get from A to B on a 30-year old bike- to riding 100 miles for fun has been amazing. I thoroughly recommend it. You go fast enough to cover distance, slow enough to smell, see and hear everything around you. Whooshing through empty country lanes at great speed on a smoothly whirring machine, wind in your hair, enjoying some good exercise and being next to carbon neutral doing it…come to think of it, it is probably one of the most enjoyable things you can do with your clothes on.

A television documentary is in development about the 2011 cycle race from Paris to Dakar I plan to compete in, training has commenced for LEJOG, a 1600 kilometer charity cycle ride with my buddies scheduled for May 2010, and plans are underway for organising an 1800 kilometre cycle stage race in a warm location.