Back on track with Surf!

Portugal, August and September 2023

On a visit to my new second home in Portugal, I spent a week in august with five kids, two teenagers and five adults on vacation. My friend Uli rented them his house with pool and all the necessary facilities for the whole month. I just popped by during my duty on checking the building site of my own little house, which‘s finishing is not coming to an end yet. I rather not take it as a frustrating but normal procedure, that construction issues take time and time and time…

The more important fact is that I had been able to play around in the waves again! After more than a year, since my travel with Guggi to Itamambuca Beach in Brazil, I got over my fear and started all over again in the white waters training my pop up and having so much fun together with Tamsin, Ivan and their kids! I loved it.

So much, that I repeated when coming back in September for another week, when meeting up with my friend Mirjam who had travelled in her Van, all the way down from Berlin. She looked so happy in her Camper Van, surfing, discovering new spots and getting to know interesting people living on the road. Whereas I did not see much progress in my house since last month, being the reason I had actually come for.

Nevertheless, I spent some phantastic days with Mirjam, who came to stay with me in the house with the pool. She accompanied me going through some unexpected emotional crisis I was going thru, before slowly pushing myself back into „tough cookie“- state.