What we lived through first in Palau: everything quite expensive, comparably low quality of life, many people seem to live in small huts and houses, at a first glance it looks rather poor to us.), gorgeus nature, very friendly, helpful people, and some wild animals, which Stefan immediately wanted to make contact with: 19th january we moved from our first Hotel in Koror downtown to Malakal, an island next to Koror, to the Malakal beachside hotel. Stefan went by taxi, with his bike and the luggage, meanwhile Nicola drove around town, looking for a cheaper accomodation. After some work Stefan …

Five days ago we arrived to Bangkok, and as the trains to Chiang Mai are fully booked, we may even be here for some more days… Oct. 17th we went to superlative temple Wat Po, the biggest temple in Bangkok, with the biggest lying Buddha (15 m heigth, 45 m in length), the biggest collection of Buddha statues and the earliest center of publiv education in Thailand. A possibility for Nicola would have been to participate at a ten day massage courst at the temoles massagebschool, but we did not want to stay in Bkk for that long… Thai people …

Sunshine, mild climate, a space for our tent right next to the lake, white and grey cranes fly by, plus WLAN reasonably nearby at the most beautiful Starbucks cafe in the whole wide world. Yesterday we had the whole campground for ourselves, now, at the weekend it is going to be quite crowded, as many Taiwanese will be spending their weekend here. I believe Japanese and Taiwanese people to have about the same way of holiday making – get to a place, take pictures, and move on. Taiwanese people mostly stay in their country, I think it is not a …

Merry Christmas 2006-12-25 at 3.50 pm A quick note for christmas time. As most of you already know we are in Taiwan. We arrived about a month ago and are living with the famiy owning the dojo, in a little town about an hour south of Taipei. Here we are studying Tai Chi and other forms of chinese martial art. This is how a regular day of ours currently looks like: Getting up between 5 and 7am (our own choice), practice, breakfast, train until lunch at noon, rest until 1:30 pm, train until 3 or 4 pm, then little break …