Words by David Appleton.
All credit for photographs goes to Alx Green. Cheers mate.
After a winter of unforgiving rain, wind and freezing temperatures, a couple of the Jux lads embarked on a trip to Barcelona. Armed with Owain John's Sony VX2100 and Alx Green's always on point photography skills, Danny Cartwright, Si Davies, Alx Green and Dave Appleton set out on a mission to fully document the trip and come back with stacks of footage in order to produce the crews first BCN video shot entirely on VX/Mini DV.
Day One, April 1st, 10:00:
The Lads assembled at Liverpool John Lennon Airport at 10am, ready to catch the 11:30 flight to El Prat, Barcelona. After knocking back a few beers and a full english each, as well as Dave's purchase of a Barcelona football shirt in true tourist style, we boarded our budget Ryan Air flight and jetted off to sunny Catalonia.
Arriving at approximately 2pm local time, we flew through customs and flagged down a taxi soon as possible. After Danny's attempt of a Spanish accent requesting the taxi take us to "Parel-lel" and some confusion with the driver who didn't seem to clock onto his native tongue, we were racing down the motorway, Dave and Greeny snapping away at the buildings along the way and Si stoked over being in a foreign land for only the second time. We arrived at the apartment, got checked in rapidly, set up the boards and were out again within the hour; heading directly to the beach.
From then on we spent the evening and into the night skateboarding along the beach front againt the backdrop of a setting sun, hitting up all the beach spots, grabbing a few Estrelle's and stacking clips on clips. After the first nights skate we had already filled sixty minutes worth of footage, predominantly on a steep bank/wallride that got well and truly rinsed by the crew.
