Aloha Makahiki Hou / Happy New Year

Ich darf auf ein wunderbares Jahr 2010 zurückblicken, in dem ich viel Schönes erleben durfte und sich für mich viel verändert hat. 

Ich bin nun bereits 3 Monate unterwegs und durfte schon viele tolle Menschen kennenlernen und habe schon soviel gesehen und erlebt.  Klar vermisse ich auch meine Heimat und all die Leute die ich zurücklassen musste, aber ich komme ja wieder :-)

Bis ende Monat bin ich noch auf der wunderbaren Insel Maui, wo ich hoffentlich auch bald etwas zum kiten komme, denn wir hatten bis jetzt nur ein Tag Wind...... Danach geht es ab nach Panama, da bin ich sehr gespannt was mich erwartet. Ihr seht es wird auch im neuen Jahr nicht langweilig für mich.

I look back on a marvelous year 2010, in which I have lived trough a big change in my life. 

I am already 3 months on the way and I meet so many good people, saw many things and  unforgettable impressions. Clearly I miss my home and all the people I had to leave, but I come back: -) 

I am still on the beautiful island Maui and I will stay here till the end of this month. Hopefully sometimes on the water, because we had only one day with wind up to now ...... Afterwards I will fly to Panama, I am very curious how it is there. As you see the new year will be very exciting for me.

After 3 month in Brazil, it was time to move to another place; MAUI, HAWAII

I had a very good time in Brazil, I meet a lot of nice people and it was almost every day wind ;-)

The rain season starts now and that was the sign for me to move....

So, after a VERY long trip from Recife to Miami, then Dallas (one night at the airport), then LA and finally to MAUI

I can stay at a friends place/house, which is so beautiful, thank you very much Greg.

I am excited to discover MAUI....... 

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Manu

BARRA GRANDE I had to check out this place

The way from Taiba to barra grande is sooooooo long.... incredible, when you are near jeri you are still fare away from barra grande... so after around 6 hours we arrived there.

The village is very nice and the people are friendly. The pousadas are beautiful but so expensive..... 100 Reais and more..... if you don't want to stay in a dormitory.

We almost gave up to find a nice place for good money..... but we were lucky and a very nice local family had this sweet apartment for us :-)

So the village is super but how is the kitespot..... 

-The first thing is that there is no wind before 10 o'clock... 

-The spot close to the village works only around low tide

- The lagoon is good around high tide and is far off.... 

- The wind is so strong.....

After one day and a terrible upwinder from the lagoon we decided to leave our beautiful apartment because this spot is nothing for us, because we are looking for safe places to train new moves.

So we drove back to ceara and we stopped by ilha do guajiru in the pousada of our friend joseph the PURA VIDA CLUB.

We had a few good day but after a night with a lot of rain, there is just no wind..... as you can see.... not even a breeze... 

Best spot I have seen until now, here in Brazil.....

After a awesome time with Manuela and Philipp, in Taiba in their beautiful house, I am back in Barra Nova.... already the 4th time.

I love this place, there ist nothing else to do then kiting, so enough to do for me. 

A huge lagune.... with no people = perfect conditions for me to train.... and crash ;-)

The infrastructure in this place is not that good, exept the kite-school escape where you can kite, eat and sleep.

Canoa Quebrada

On the road I passed by Canoa Quebrada (a fishing village discovered by hippies, 170km south of Fortaleza) to visit some friends from Switzerland and to hang out a little, after several days of kiting, kiting, kiting....

It was nice to stop by a place with nice restaurants and some shops, they call the street BROADWAY

After so many days of kiting, my body was very tired..... and it was nice to relax a little

on a very nice place as you can see :-)

Boat trip to the known secret spot in ilha do Guajiru

auf dem Weg 

on the way 

wunderschöner flachwasser Spot

wonderful flatwater Spot

Finally arrived

Es hat etwas Zeit gebraucht, aber jetzt fühle ich mich super wohl in Brasilien

It took some time but finally I feel very happy here in Brazil