Before we left Denmark, our Portuguese contact wrote that he was planning a hunt for snipes. Michael found a video on YouTube just to tune in on the challenge and said in a quiet voice: I think you are going to see me under pressure! Because in that video they claimed snipes to be the fastest gamebird in the world!
Our trip to Portugal began with an invitation in a chat on Instagram. Yup! Something we always will tell our kids NOT to do! Even Miguel,”the man my husband met on the internet”, admitted that he probably wouldn’t have gone to Denmark on the same conditions. But we lowered our expectations and if the hunting part would fail, the two of us would still be on a little getaway and most important; I would get to travel!
For years Michael has wanted to go canoeing, so this little get away next to Gudenåen (the longsest stream of flowing water in Denmark) is actually last year’s anniversary gift from me to him.
A birthdaypresent from Steen’s wife gave us three days of hunting in Slovakia with a mix of regular and driven hunts for wildboar and deer with locals… and a party!
My friendship with Steen goes approximately 25 years back, so the challenge was taken very seriously when his wife asked me to arrange a hunting trip as his birthday present.
This day began at 4 am with a very different kind of “off road spot and stalk” for some extraordinary roebucks and turned into a hilarious study of the Slovakian language.
I am convinced that these 24 hours will be filed in my long-term memory as one of the craziest days of my life. At least a top three!
Hunting in Slovakia is not a “walk in the park”! It may look like it, but all we do is eat, sleep (a little), hunt, repeat!
Monday, I left our two teenage kids to drive 15 hours with my husband to spend several days hunting, which is something I have paid so little attention to during the 2 decades we have been married.
This week I am going seriously hunting for the first time in my life. Well… I will only be photo shooting while my husband will do the real stuff.
Today, I received a very generous invitation from a new hunting friend, Anders, to go deer hunting. That is a little hard to say no to.
I have been on a vacation with my family. We wanted to go to Redding, CA for two month and spend a lot of time with good friends and enjoy the incredible nature in Northern California. While we were there i went to Texas for a wild boar hunt.
Last night I was sneaking around after this roebuck in 1,5 hours and was so close to get him with the bow.
