Category: SE Asia Dec 18 – Jun 19

… and rest at the Play Beach Section or view at the Rest Beach section 😛

…why I didn’t post something about Japan, well, I took my time. But at the end I‘m afraid my mind won‘t change. Japanese people are humans with two arms and two legs, and that’s all we have together. I learned from Malaysia not to build up an opinion about people just by watching some of them. But here in Japan I‘m pretty sure it is the different culture which split them from us. Being so kind in the front but so closed to themselves in the back is nothing I can understand. Giving retired people a task in the society might be a good thing, but let them stand all day long with a sign „watch your step“ is undignified. Just an example.

But this is (again) one of the biggest reasons for traveling (at least for us). Exploring other cultures and re-thinking the own thinking. And if the result is „I like my way of being more than the one from the others“ well, so it is. I do not blaim the way how the Japanese people live their life (especially as I don‘t realy know any of them !) but it‘s their way and for sure never mine.

So thanks for the experience, take care and keep calm…

To be completely honest I still feel like on a different planet here 😉 The apparent politeness of most people feels sometimes like a shield for me and I somehow lack some openhearted behavior or sincere kindness. So many reglementations wherever you go, even in natural environments (a designated one-way track through the woods for pedestrians … really?!) is opposite to my intuitive and freedom loving nature.

But I know these are my special kind of feelings and behavior and have to do with being very sensitive to the environment and people around me … it is not meant as a general evaluation or judgement of the Japanese.

And finally: these are very interesting experiences, too! And we recognize our deepest values the more we travel and the stranger the culture for us.

And to be even more honest: We don’t care what other people think about us or our kind of relationship. We know that we confront and confuse a lot of people here just by being as we are. But we don’t want to hide who we are and also not our love for each other and dare to show this sometimes … luckily there is no punishment by law for this here, we only get strange glances 😛 But we decided to live with that!

Yes, we try to adjust our behavior to the country we are in (at least most of the time ^^), but being reglemented all the time and also showing no loving emotions in public is just not our way of being and definitely not possible for us.

Somehow we sometimes even think that maybe we spread a little bit of our openhearted love to the people around us here. Let 95% of the Japanese people think how disgusting it is to show deep love for each other in public, but if we encourage only 5% to join us, that’s worth it!

So if you visit Japan in about 5 years and wonder why so many people walk hand in hand and show their loving affection for the Partner even in public, we started this trend 😀

Today we visited Daisekirinzan, a very old spiritual place in the North of Okinawa. One of these special days … full of magic, nature and silence as we love it so much! Andy was the stone troll, I was the tree fairy – like in real life 😉

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Christchurch: powerful hakas honour mosque shooting victim

After 3 months traveling and a lot of beaches we‘ve seen we have to accept the reality how it looks like nowadays in these areas: beaches that belong to a resort/hotel are mostly cared for and the rubbish is taken away. The other beaches look like this one below with plastic (mostly bottles) all over and a lot of dead corals … sometimes I walk such a beach with tears in my eyes and have to take care not to allow any kind of anger in my heart for the government/industries/people here, not caring for their environment and also anger for myself (using all that plastic stuff here), as it really really hurts to see our oceans and their inhabitants dying….

Hotel Oceans Nakijin
985 Nakasone, Nakijin, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa 905-0401, Japan
https://goo.gl/maps/CRBhZdzcY6m

Yesterday we landed in subtropical Naha, Okinawa (Japan), completely worn out and tired, but straightaway felt the difference to every other country, where we have ever been before. Starting with the extremely friendly and helpful Japanese people and soon facing the unusual handling of freaky toilets, then enjoying surprising (we couldn’t read a word of the menu) and very delicious food to the great old cultural background and variety mixed with a lot of freshness from the youngsters around there (taking selfies). We are really looking forward to our next 3 weeks here 😀

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Red Planet Okinawa Naha
3-chōme-1-4 Maejima, Naha, Okinawa 900-0016, Japan
https://goo.gl/maps/YntQh7bQsjB2s

… in 5 hours. First we will fly from Krabi, Thailand, to Bangkok, Thailand, 4 hours later from Bangkok to Tokyo and a few hours later further on to Naha, Okinawa (island in the very south of Japan).

„Beam us up Scotty“ would be so much nicer 😀

To our friends Tammy and Maik.

They went now to another island while we prepare our trip to Japan

It has not the best camera, but can make nice photos.

Was not that easy to make photos in the water, especially every water drop opened an App and the waves rocked me around

Unfortunately: NO cold beer or cocktail service 😉

We are so relaxed that we are much too lazy to write much, the Resort where we are staying until March 13th is just wonderful, even the monkeys in the morning stealing our oranges 😉 … but have a look for yourself:

Koh Jum Ocean Beach Resort
Krabi 81130, Thailand
https://goo.gl/maps/EetLsqjfpLA2

A whole kingsize bed in a beautiful apartment just for the two of them… while Freaky & Weird went out for a fantastic dinner celebrating their 30. wedding anniversary 🙂

Saturdays Residence by Sure
Soi Saturdays Tambon Rawai, Amphoe Mueang Phuket, Chang Wat Phuket 83100, Thailand
https://goo.gl/maps/roMBXW6rVPw

2 months ago, a strong, hard and brave fool walked through the palm forest and suddeldly he was hit by a dorn from a palm leaf at his feet. The dorn created a smal wound and a drop of blood came out of it. The strong, hard and brave fool did‘t care, because he was strong, hard and brave. So the war began…

Tiny little creatures, so tiny that a normal eye coulnd‘t see them, realized the wound of the fool and started immediately to run through it. The body of the fool started to stop them but everytime one of the tiny littles died, 2 new ones arrived. It was a real long and hard battle, no side could win even a millimeter. The strong, hard and brave fool had a felllow, a lovely fairy with magic features. The fairy tried to attention the strong, hard and brave fool about the war, but he didn’t listen. After 51 days, the tiny littles changed their strategy. They went away a bit and stayed calm so the wound got closed. The strong, hard and brave fool saw that as a battle win and he triumphed. But not his body. The body realized the trick and fighted in the underground. Also the fairy tried again to warn him, but he dind’t listen. The brain of the strong, hard and brave fool was so enthusiastic about the victory of the battle that he didn‘t realize that he was still in war. To warn the brain, the body got unwell, but the brain took this as a small flue, nothing to care about. Also the fairy tried again to warn him, but he didn’t listen. To warn the brain, the body created nausea und vomiting, but the brain took this as a bad dinner, nothing to care about. Also the fairy tried again, now really angrily, to warn him, but he still didn‘t listen. To warn the brain, the body created pain in the whole body, but the brain took this as a sign to „be strong, hard and brave“. The fairy got desperate and pleaded, but the fool still stayed strong, hard and brave. This battle took 7 days, 7 days where tiny littles got so powerful that they desided to leave the underground and came to the surface. On day 58 of the war, the leg of the strong, hard and brave fool was swollen, the skin got dark red, and very hot. The brain of the strong, hard and brave fool started wondering, if there might be something to care about, but his brain was very slow in realizing the reality. So the fairy took a last try, she said to him that he will die if he won‘t accept the reality of what was happening. The strong, hard and brave fool didn‘t want to die, so the heart took over and made all further decisions and followed the advice of his beloved partner. Together they went to the big magic healingstone where the old (still not nice looking, but closed) wound was reopened, cleaned and professionally closed again. A huge army of professional soldiers (called antibiotics) were released into the body of the strong, hard and brave fool. The tiny littles now had no choice, they got killed quicker than they could reproduce themselves, so finally the war ended by the victory of the modern healing stone and the endless love of the fairy for the strong, hard and brave fool.

And they lived happily ever after…

The first thing most people comes to mind thinking of „Borneo“ is „Orang Utans“. True, there are only 2 places left where these wonderful creatures live and Borneo is one of this places.

So for sure we wanted to meet them and of cause not in a cage. Therefore we took a Grab-car (the Asian Uber) and drove 30 km to the wildlife park. Everybody (and a lot of signs) told us it is fruit season, so the chance to see Orang Utans at the feeding station is very very rare, as they get enough food in the jungle.

But we are the lucky ones, so we did see a mother with her baby and after a while another female Orang Utan. Here are some pictures of these beautiful animals. (But be sure pictures are never that impressive as the real world and we have only poor cameras at our mobiles)

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Additional a smal video to see them in action

Semenggoh Wildlife Centre
KM 20, Borneo Highland Road, 93250 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
https://goo.gl/maps/fqkzrcSHth72

As we arrived in Kuching 3 days ago our Grabcar driver informed us that Kuching (which means „cat“ in Malay) is not worth a visit, quite boring actually, doesn’t have anything to attract tourists … what a welcome and what an enjoyable honesty 😀

So we didn’t expect very much and were happy to have a nice hotel room. But it turned out that Kuching is quite lovely with its Riverside Waterfront, especially at night when the colorful lights are turned on!

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And here the namesakes 😉

Riverside Majestic Hotel – Astana Wing
93100 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
https://goo.gl/maps/keD1vdb3Q4G2

One of the reasons why I‘m traveling around the world (besides the fact that Faye convinced me to have a less stressful life) is exploring new cultures, meeting people and letting my mind calm down.

I believe if you have the time to be more mindfull in your daily being and if your mind is more quiet and peaceful you might find some secrets. So did I:

I already had a lot of experiences during our trip. The last ones in Malaysia where not that positive, neither the surrounding nor the people who crossed our way. So what my mind created was a picture of Malaysia. Often dirty, bad smelling, unfriendly people, no ecological mindset (especially for the ocean)… So not a country that I would recommend to visit. Now since 2 days we are at Kinabalu mountain, a place at 1600 meter height with pollution free air, lots of green and (mostly) no industrial noise. And guess what, the people here are so friendly and attentive.

So what is the lesson learned?

Most people (and also myself) are used to judge very quickly. Every experience it categorized in a box and we take this as overall and undisputed truth. I realised that this is bullshit. Life happens every second. If I like to have the truth I have to watch, listen, smell, touch every second.

Malaysia and their people are not bad, ugly or unsightly. It is as it is, a country with thousands of unique individuals and you can do millions of steps and each could be different. And every person and every step is worth to realize.

It was a real gift for me getting this eye opener and I‘m glad to share it or even keep it as reminder for myself 😉

After a 2 h drive we arrived at Kinabalu Park with it‘s astounding over 4000m high mountain. Strange to see jungle and then a gray freaky looking mountain top, knowing how high it is, but still we cannot believe it as everything surrounding it is so green and lush with big trees, but have a look for yourself:

Sutera Sanctuary Lodges at Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu National Park Kundasang, Kinabalu Park, 89300 Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia
https://goo.gl/maps/fCebZDtX19H2

Our next station in Malaysia is Borneo, home of the Orang-Utans. But before visiting them we took a relaxing timeout in Kota Kinabalu, a city with 1000 malls. Good for us, because Weird urgently needed new shoes (which he got today, the only ones in the whole shop in his size)

To get the best of relaxing we decided to shit on our budget and booked two nights in the Hilton hotel before going to the Kinabalu mountain. We enjoy it so much having a clean and not smelling environment and a shower which provides endless warm water.

Best, there is a roof top swimming pool which is colouring at night.

And we again enjoyed the pool in the morning (before the pack of Chinese kids overrun the pool).

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We come to the point that we are more snobby than we thought..

Hilton Kota Kinabalu
Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Asia City, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
https://maps.app.goo.gl/58FC6

We really tried to give this „peaceful traditional fishing village“ (original statement on airbnb) a chance, but finally we just had to accept that we booked a house in the ugliest location we‘ve ever seen!

But have a look for yourself, if you dare … and thank God that we cannot bring the foul smell and the great heat that’s here (even at night) with the pictures 😉

If you look at the restaurant seats, you may guess why we never dined in this town. And we never stayed so much inside or drove great distances with the local bus for dinner as we have done this week. Now you can image how happy we are to leave Penang in two days and fly to Borneo 🙂

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Here some pictures from our Butterfly Farm visit today, it felt like magic sitting between so many of them and even have them on our hands 😀

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Today we visited the Spice Garden in Penang, so if you feel like missing some vitalizing green colour, here you are:

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Sometimes a picture says more than thousand words:

Indeed a good decision, wasn‘t it?

We are now in our 3rd Airbnb location in South Asia and we decided: this will be the last one. It is one thing to show detail photos of a location which looks nice but never show the whole picture which is in fact ugly. But offering fake reviews which guide people into wrong expectations is a really worse thing.

So here we are, 10 days in „the lovely village“ which is in fact a bad smelling, dirty old fashioned and poor infrastructured village. The locals are kind of strange and not foreigner friendly at all. If you come across a „restaurant“ (plastic chairs on a concrete floor and dirty tables) you are directly asked to take a seat. If you friendly refuse you earn bad wipes and not understandable murmuring. I realy can‘t understand how people can recommend such a place.

The accommodation itself is not that bad, nothing was really lied on the airbnb platform. But the way how it was proclaimed and reviewed guided us into much higher expectations which resulted in a deep frustration and dissapointment. Not worth to get into details…

Anyhow, we are traveling to make new experiences and THIS is for sure an experience we will never forget. So Faye decided to make the best of it and turned our temporarily home into an enjoyable place.

4, Lorong Hassan Abas Dua, Teluk Bahang, 11050 Tanjung Bungah, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
https://goo.gl/maps/merhjjFGWe82

Today we took the train from the largest town in Malaysia to the 2nd largest town „Georgetown“ on Penang, an island in the North.

The most curious thing on this 5h trip was that the wagons were cooled down to approx 10 degrees (might be overstate, but we felt so).

So every 10 minutes we put another piece of cloth on and at the end we looked like this:

A really interesting experiance, especially because in Georgetown we needed to walk 1,2 km to our hostel. In 35 degrees. We were completely worn out and sweaty after the 20 min walk.

Chulia Mansion Hotel
413, Chulia St, Georgetown, 10200 George Town, Penang, Malaysia

https://goo.gl/maps/hMTPw8Lcxnr

After nearly 8 weeks we left Thailand this morning and went off to Kuala Lumpur. What a difference after such a long island chill-out!

And: Woohoo, what a great city and so many friendly people! Enjoyed it really much to get some completely new vibes and impressions again 🙂

And best of all: we had a hotel voucher and stayed at the luxury Le Meridien, felt soooo comfortable and nice that for two seconds we thought about shortening our trip from hopefully 1-2 years to just one or two months and all the time just keep staying at such georgeous hotels 😀 … yes, a certain kind of uncomplicated luxury is really something we can appreciate! But that thought lasted only for two seconds ^^

Le Méridien Kuala Lumpur
2, Jalan Stesen Sentral, Kuala Lumpur Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

https://goo.gl/maps/cNppeBMhaUo

Unfortunately Nelson doesn’t speek English…

If you like to have the outtakes (12 videos, 260 MB) just contact us 🙂

But we really needed a rest. Not kidding, one week in the jungle accomodation means one week – 24h over 30 degrees. We had only a fan which blowed the hot air around but gave no cooling. At night we needed to sleep under a mosquito net and this made it even worse (imagine what happens if you are under plastic without wind…)

35 degrees might be heaven for all winter driven readers but for us it was fully stress. We figured out that the human brain stopped working efficiently after a time. We took decisions which were fully nonsense (ask Maik and booking.com).

So now, after 3 days in an AC hotel room we feel “normal” again (sounds funny from somebody who call himself weird).

What I can tell for now, the next 2,5 months are 90% planned, scheduled, booked and confirmed. You think this is against drifting? For sure not. Lots of ideas drifted around us (especially Faye) and at the end we took the decisions. The teaser is still valid 🙂

… and also show the not so sunny sides of our trip so far:

• Sometimes really bad water quality (cold, brown, smelly, very little) in the shower 🙁
• Incredibly itching moskito or ant bites in the evening (even when you put spray on), esp. during sunset/lunch time 🙁
• Never knowing, if there are flavor enhancers (which I‘m allergic to) in my food as no one understands enough English to know what I mean 🙁
• Poisonous animals you have to take care of (yes, I am the anxious type of person), e.g. the box jellyfish (quite a view deaths in the last years here due to that) 🙁
• Sometimes it‘s just soooo f***** d*** hot und humid that my body just doesn’t want to do his job any longer, get’s shaky, completely powerless and nearly starts fainting (no joke!) 🙁
• Rubbish!!!! As soon as you leave the tourist area, the resort beaches that are being cared for, you find so much plastic rubbish everywhere, at the streets, beaches, in the jungle … unbelievable 🙁
• Cesspool smell (Kloakengestank), when you cross a river or at some ocean sites 🙁
• Really filthy seats, table cloths and menue cards (didn’t know until now how much I enjoy a certain kind of cleanliness ^^)
• Sitting at the most lovely beaches and then hearing the extremely loud motor of the longboats that bring new tourists all the time …
• Mega potholes on the roads! Not funny sitting on the backseat of the scooter, nearly fell off sometimes especially at night 🙁
• Trying to find a nice accommodation for little money, as the pics most of the time are at least 20 years old (or fakes) and you never know what you really get 🙁

So, that was just to show you that even when you live your dream, you still have ups and downs, good days, not so good days (and I even forgot to mention loud screaming and laughing women, often drunk, sitting or living right next to you 😉 ) .., but that’s nothing that really bothers us for a longer time and you get used to a lot of things after a while (not the screaming women, though) … and to be completely honest, up till now we never regretted even for one second our decision and enjoy every moment and our kind of life profoundly, the sunny sides and the not so sunny or even stormy ones <3

So let’s have a drink.

Can you imagine what‘s in the jungle?

Right, animals. Some outside, some inside. Here are the most harmless ones:

Outside

And naturally a lot of geckos, lizards, frogs and bigger & smaller insects

And the location is even not known by google

7°33’20.7″N 99°02’52.3″E
https://goo.gl/maps/fBgMXBXxmV62

Today we needed to leave the freaky pirat horizon bar. It was a wonderful and lovely week where we met so many people and listen so so many cool music.

Thank you all:

New friendships were made:

It was indeed a great time

Take care dear horizon, see you on the other side…

Lanta Horizon
45/3 Moo 6, Koh Lanta Yai, Tambon Ko Lanta Yai, Amphoe Ko Lanta, Chang Wat Krabi 81150, Thailand
https://goo.gl/maps/XfyfaqrkVe62

Here‘s now my tattoo and the story to it …

Looks like a usual flower wrist band, but has a deeper meaning for me:

The slight waves between the roses represent the ups & downs in our life (like ocean waves or light and sound waves). Life is always flowing … drifting through life means for me to go with the flow of this special moment, whatever it may be.

The leaves represent my love for trees (everybody who read my book knows what I mean 😉 ). If this earth is like a huge tree of life, we all are leaves on this one big tree. We are the outcome of this tree and all connected and likewise, everybody has a different look on life, depending on where you hang and what kind of conditions you have. But still we all are the baby leaves of the big tree of life and always being cared for. Knowing this and feeling this is why I trust life so deeply.

Initially I wanted to have light roses (showing my inner vulnerability and fragibility), but somehow it happened that Eacho made them darker than planned and it was a magic moment realizing that it‘s the dark rose that needs my attention and love, representing our and other peoples shadow sides and dark parts (often deeply hidden). To love our shadow sides, the dark parts of our human nature that we all have, leads to deep inner peace and healing, and gives us the power of living our lives wholeheartedly, Not only for ourselves, but for our whole environment too.

Last but not least the tattoo represents my tree fairy nature <3

First Eacho told me he would need about 2 hours… then we started talking about life, our similar kind of working with people and finally it nearly became a therapy lesson (don‘t know how often he said „oh yes, thaaaaat‘s true …. I really have to remember this! “ So maybe, if I write another book, it will be in English with a dedication to Eacho 😀

As you see, it turned out to be a magical night, finally 5 hours and I am sooo thankful!

Another true story that happens in life.

There is a Scottish historical story called ‚The Declaration of Arbroath‘. 9 years ago this story changed my personality and my life dramaticly . So I had the thought of getting a tattoo with the text of the declaration. I told my wish to Faye and one morning she came up with some additionals: the celtic knot for endless love (which I have as necklace) as an underlaying picture. I loved that idea so it was clear for me to get such a tattoo someday. But I never found a studio that fitted to me and I always thought getting a tattoo is something so important that it has to be the right person to make it.

Well, here at the location ‚Horizon’ (that Faye mentined a few days before) is a tiny sign for a studio. And because life is always good to us this studio is run by a local artist. People from all over the world come to this place just for his tattoos. And funnywhise (believe it or not) we met a German guy who took his vacation since 9 years at this place to get another bamboo tattoo from this studio.

At the beginning I was a bit unsure because until then I had the feeling it had to be a machine tattoo. But I met Eacho, the master, and I talked with him about my idea. After a few seconds I totaly knew he is the right one. He listened carefully and I saw in his eyes that he created exact what was in my mind. At the end we got brothers in minds, a kind of spiritual relationship.

He started with a pen drawing on my back, which took over two hours. While I was sitting on the chair and enjoying the atmosphere I had an inspiration. A swort through the knot and the declaration text. Faye was skeptical but Eacho understood again what idea I had and he made an additional drawing. And the result was just gorgeous! Without the sword it looked nice, but a bit lame. And now, indescribable for me.

So the hard work began. Starting 6pm and finished 2am on day one, one day off and another 3 hours today. So total net 12hours with a lot of beer and Thai wiskey to endure the pain and let the time pass.

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Finally it was done, and I‘m so happy and proude. But not only me, also Eacho was thankful about the opportunity and inspiration I gave him.

And here it is, my first real bamboo tattoo

If you go into a Thai restaurant and order some food, normally the waitress asks „spicy“? Every travel book heartly recommeds to say „no spicy“ because europeans are not used to feel comfortable with asia spicy food.

Well, after 6 weeks in Thailand and a lot of Thai food (especially red curry) we were sure we know what spicy means. So we started ordering „spicy“ and we felt good with that.

Today for dinner we went into a restaurant, ordered red curry and the common question came. This time (for whatever reason) I answered „real spicy“. The waiter looked puzzled and asked back „Thai spicy“? And I said „yes“. A hugh smile was in the guys face and he said „ohh nice.normally tourists never ask for thai spicy“. I was excited.

The food came and the guy showed me proudly the chili pieces and the chili seeds in the curry. I took a spoon of the curry and immidiately I got a hickhop. It was THAT hot. Every spoon needed over 2 minutes to get into my mouth ( longest dinner ever). I was able to define exactly the posittion of every bit in my body. Now I know how long my esophagus is and where the stomach starts. I guess I lost 2 KG water because of sweating and tearful tissues. Finally I needed 2 portions of rice to finish the meal. What an experiance but for sure it will be the last one for a couple of time. And I‘m a bit afraid of tomorrows outcome …

Some survival hints for eating thai spicy food:

Eat slowly, breathe thru your nose, be aware of every spoon, take a rest after every 5th spoon, use more rice than usually with the food, drink mango shake in tiny sips.

Good luck…

The longer we travel the more we enjoy and live our freakiness and weirdness. Our new location fits perfectly to that. A mixture of Pirates of the Caribbean with a lot of chill-out flair, and it‘s as vintage as we are 😉

We booked the ‚Sky Room‘ (orange wall with window above the Horizon Bar sign) for the next 5 days.

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Yesterday our host Nan did a BBQ especially for us. We got white snapper with ‘Mama style’ gravy, king prawns and squid. It was so delicious and after dinner we had a long talk with Nan about the Thai way of thinking, the influence of the Tourists to the culture, importance of family and much more. Such kind of experiences are one of the reasons why we make our trip, it was mind keeping indeed.

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We already have a great local accomodation and have had some real spicy and delicious red curry …. looks like Ko Lanta could make it for a longer time 🙂

… we will hopefully be in Ko Lanta.

So again an island, it seems having only water around us is the thing we like.

But honestly the main reason to leave this place is: Muslim prayer around us that’s very loud and often (which we do not claim!) and we didn’t find a proper accomodation which fits to us.

Maybe we are a bit extraordinary in our visions about accomodations, but ehyah, we are freaky and weird.

So let’s make a photo from this place and see what will come next.

Al-humdu Boutique Hometel
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yZzb5

Since we took the decision to change our life dramaticly last summer we sticked to a kind of mantra: Life will always provide us with the best, so we trust it without any doubts.

Today our believe deeply proofed to be right, here is the story:

Faye booked a single house a bit on the mountain near Krabi. The reviews of the accomodation were very good and the contact with the host pleasant. Yesterday we arrived at the place and the house and the view were very lovely. The host provided us with fresh fruits and water, so everthing seemed to be perfect.

But soon Faye did‘t feel good at the place. There was no specific reason, more lots of little circumstances and overall a somehow not good “spirit“ in the house and the surrounding. So from the legal point of view no reason to quit the contract and so Faye decided to stay calm and endure the situation.

This morning, after a restless night, I stood up and made some coffee, as usual. I took the coffee to the veranda ( where we had a nice view into the jungle) went back to the kitchen to grab a juice. Maybe I need to mention that getting to the veranda needed me to take some steps of a stair and while coming back from the kitchen to the veranda I stepped on the stairs. Without any warning the second step broke completely, the wood was rotten and my 130 KG were too much. I fell into the hole, got some abrasions at the right leg and a bloody wound on the left shin. I‘m not seriously injured but for sure it was a shock and it hurts.

In an usual way of thinking such a situation would likely cause a massive upset but you know what: Now it didn‘t at all. Why?

We contacted the host, showed him his broken stair and my legs, explained him that it was impossible to stay any further in his house for security reasons and because we have no chance to get up the hill to the town for having dinner and shopping. The host was not happy to cancel the booking ( of cause) but watching my bloddy wound gave him no other realistic chance.

So now we are in a tiny little hotel next to the beach ( the host dropped us here). We will stay here for the next 2 days and search the next location. Faye is happy not being any longer in the creapy house and we have plenty of restaurants next door.

This little story is a kind of quintessence for me. I fully believe with 100% of my heart that life always presents us with the best. Always.

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