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hello everybody!

As you may have guessed from the headline: I’m back in Goa! Tae wook and I arrived here about 5 days ago after a wonderful trip to pushkar (yes, pics follow) and immediately found a room on the cliffside – even in the same house that we stayed in last time. here’s the view from our balcony:

We really had some relaxed days here. We spent some time at the beach, went to the jungle and saw the sunset from my favourite spot. Sorry – don’t have the pictures because Tae wook took them with his camera. But just imagine watching a nice red-orange sunset on the seaside, some palmtrees in the background and eagles flying by. Yes, it was nice.

Two days ago something pretty cool happened to me. Holger, who had shared the taxi from the ariport to Arambol with us suddenly came up to me on the beach and asked me if I would like to visit our fathers…He had heard about the story of my dad from Andy, an Austrian guy who is living here. His father had as well died from cancer 10 years ago and so he, as an experienced paraglider offered to take me on a flight and we would throw some flowers from the sky for our dads. And so we did the next day. After a damn hot hike up on the hill we finally jumped over the edge of the cliff and glided around arambol beach for about half an hour. Right above the lake we threw our flowers. It was amazing!!

Thank you so much, Holger!! It was an amazing experience!!

It’s great to be back here and meet old friends. So for those who know the place – here’s the newsflash: vishva got married and has a 5 months old daughter, so did his brother but his offspring even came first. Coco has a cute son now too. And Tiffany has another one year-old daughter. Little Tibet closed but I heard Vijay is still working in Arambol, didn’t see him yet though. Eyes of Buddha moved to the main beach but the breakfast is as usual delicious and of course good old Sammy is still running the place. Dilip built a true palace where a dirty backyard had been once and even has rooms to rent now. Deepa is fine and so are the two kids. The place is still full of Israelis but the crazy Russians are slowly taking over-  sad but true. Well guess that’s it for now.
Everybody is asking for family and friends to come and they are always very disappointed when I say it’s just me this time. Seems like that’s not enough hehe  BUT my dearest uncle hari spontaneously decided that there’s no way he can spend the winter in Austra and booked a ticket to India. He’ll join me in Arambol on Monday! That means that other than expected I will celebrate a family-Christmas!

Tae wook left today to go back to Varanasi to continue his work. It was really hard for him to leave – he definitely fell in love with Arambol as well. But his departure also meant that we would have to say good bye. Two months ago he had been my saviour in Varanasi when I arrived and until today we have become close friends. But the dream team has to part now. I’ll miss him a lot and I really hope that Varanasi will not bee to hard on him when he returns.
Good bye Tae wook!!

And me? Well I haven’t decided yet but I might go to Hampi for a couple of days before Hari arrives here. Or maybe I’ll stay and wait for him…we’ll see. Can’t wait to welcome the old man to Arambol!!

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