We arrived in Sidney last night which means that once again a big part of the trip is over and that I am more than half way through the whole journey now. New Zealand was really beautiful and also eventful on all levels. A lot of first times, new challenges and new experiences. We travelled for 10 days with the group you can see in the pictures. As I already described in the last blog entry, it was a good mix of young and middle aged people which made it really ...

We met our group yesterday and are going to stay with them for the next 10 days. It is a pretty good mix of young and middle aged people which is perfect. Everybody seems nice and with us we are now mostly German speaking people on the bus. It feels like the Germans want to take over the world, we are everywhere and everybody is getting a bit annoyed, when you tell them, that you too are from Germany. But we don't care, and anyway we can't change it, can we J. ...

Kirstin and I arrived safely in Auckland and first thing I did was heading to the haircutter. I looked like a native bush person after 4 months of not getting a haircut. Esther waited for us afterwards in the hostel and gave us a quick update on how things are back in Germany! So guys, we know everything now, no need to try to keep secrets from us! Esther went straight to bed after her two day flight down here and Kirstin and me had a fun night out in Auckland t...

The New Year starts with a week in tropical paradise but somehow it feels like if Tahiti doesn't like us. We arrive after a long flight late at night at Papeete airport and for the first time during the whole trip my backpack got lost. I think no worries, such things happen but just getting out of the building Tahiti brings on the next thing: Somehow Kirstins bank card doesn't work, so she can't get any cash. Together we form one decent traveller, she has the cl...

I hope you had a wonderful christmas time and a fabulous party on New year's eve. We spent christmas on Caye caulker to recover from our sailing and snorkeling trip. It was a great trip, we sailed through turquoise water, stopped here and there for an hour of snorkeling, had a lot of rum punch and at night the crew would prepare the fish for us that had been caught during the day. Could not have been better. We camped on tiny islands that were hardly big enough f...