I made it! After 48 hours of flying and waiting for flights, I did arrive in Wellington yesterday night (afternoon for the european ones). Everything went pretty well until I missed my connection flight in Melbourne fuo to delay of the previous one. But even then it wasn't bad at all, as I met some elderly travellers with the same problem and managed to be allowed to the Business Lounge - which is actually a rather nice place to be ;-) Seven hours later we t...

Hello again to everybody out there! Here I am again :) In two days, on Monday, I will start my trip to New Zealand - and although the ones who have met me in the last few days are probably thinking that I am pretty cool about it - I AM getting exited. But of course I know that the decision to go was totally right and haven't regretted it for a single moment until now. So the exitement is positive and I am not even too nervous about flying yet. I've been amaze...

Hey all! As you can see, I am home. For nearly a week already. Although my journey home was connected with some complications when I didn't want to leave the airport in Ho Chi Minh City but intended to wait 30 hours for my next flight there, wasn't allowed to stay but couldn't leave eigher because I had no visa and was about to be send back to China... well I managed to be NOT send back, got a visa (for a lot of wasted money of course) and spend many relaxed hou...

Hey, so the first tournament is already over... Good news: We made it to the knockouts (very close). Bad news: We were knocked out in the first match (not that close ;-) ). The pairs tournament has already started and we will drop in the day after tomorrow - so due to our bad play today we will have a free day tomorrow and then try to win the pairs :) In the meantime we moved into another hotel which is much closer to the playing area, has a really nice break...

Hey all! China is really strange. I cannot even use this blog (or the whole internet) properly. I can't upload photos, facebook is banned and the W-LAN is very unreliable wherever I go. Furthermore, nobody understands any english (not ANY word, even if we try our best to support the spoken words - like "TAXI?" - with creative sign-language - I should have improved my pantomime-skills when I return ;-) ), we are going to leave our appartment and the food-situatio...