Erwin and Dorits' Endless Summer

After spending a week in Singapore we came back to Bali. Just a couple of days 3 of our german friends visited us in Kuta. We went surfing in the mornings and sight seeing in the afternoons. Again we visited Tanah Lot Temple with it 5 meter python; went to Ubud; drove past burning pigs which were being prepared for a ceremonial fest and went to the beautiful beach of  Balangan…. of course everywhere on the motorbike.

Erwin..                                            and                          Dorit, enjoying local food.

40 kg… you have to carry with 2 people or you use it as a pillow;…;o)               “Tanah Lot”

In Australia we met Rüdiger in Burleigh and just a couple of weeks ago we saw him again in Kuta. He also had visitors arriving from Germany and it turned out that we all were on same “golflengte/Wellenlänge”….;o) In the water and on land: Tanja, Carina, Erwin, Chris (Aachen), März, Stefan, Rudi (Frankfurt-Darmstadt) and Dorit!

Chris cruising along Jalan Canggu after a morning surf session; Monkey family ; Indonesian kids preforming a traditional dance…

Chris and Erwin at Canggu beach..

Erwin having fun at the “Old Man” in Canggu..

Dorit speeds it up to catch the next section at the “Old Man”.

The shoemaker in Ubud comes to you; 3 Buddah’s in the forest; Indo-kids happy and easy satisfied.

The catch of the day!

Bali wonders of nature: flowers, bananas, cactus and palmtrees

After 58 days in Indonesia we wanted to extend our visa. By going out of Indonesia and coming back later, we could get a new 30 day visa on arrivel. First we wanted to go to Bangkok but when the riots started we decided to go to Singapore instead.

Our cosy hostel were we stayed in Singapore located in the relaxed ‘Arab Quarter’ with very nice staff.

The first day we met Tina, Dorit’s friend from Germany who spend her holiday in Singapore. She showed us around and took us to many nice places like the Swissotel, Holland village and Santosa.

The view of Singapore by night from the ‘Swiss Hotel’. The highest building in town with over 70 floors. The photo was made from the heli platform were we went to a party.

Besides the good foot in our own ‘Arab Quarter’ we went to a part of the city called ‘Little India’ because we were allowed to eat with our hands there 😉 Spicy chicken masala. And in one of the 160 malls in Singapore(!!!) with even more ‘foot courts’ we couldn’t resist a good Japanese Sushi adventure- the Sushi train.

“Batman-Tower”                                             Shopping mall Nr.111;o)

After 6 weeks we are pretty used to the laidback life here on Bali. Regarding the high temperatures it is a must to slow down. But it’s not that we are not doing anything. Every day we drive on the motorbike,  with 2 surfboards on the side searching for the best waves on Bali.

After two weeks Sanne (Dorits’ study partner from Maastricht) and Michiel arrived in Kuta and joined us in our hotel. They enjoyed the luxury here after adventures travels throuhg Indonesia. We went to our favorite restaurants that we had discoverd and we took them surfing at Kuta Beach and Balangan. It was nice to have people around from back home and we had a great time together (and lots of Magnums) untill they eventually took of to Nepal a couple of days ago.

About 10 days after Sanne and Michiel arrived here, Lotte (Dorit’s Mama) and Wilfried visited us for 2 weeks. With the 6 of us, we traveled around Bali.

First of all we visited some temples like, Uluwatu and Tanah Lot (were we were part of the indonesian tourist attraction).

Then we went to Ubud the cultural centre of Bali with its beautiful rice fields. We watched a Kecak dance and attended a Balinese Cooking Course (with loads of garlic).

Back in Kuta we went for a day trip north of Kuta through the rice fields and to a monkey forrest.

Today our visitors are gone and we are “alone” again. We hang out with Jaime, a spanish guy we met in Australia and how lives on Bai sinds last year. He took us to beautiful places to surf, eat, chill or shop and his girlfriend Martha took nice surf pictures of us.

Yesterday we booked our ticket to Singapore, because our Indonesion visa expires at the end of this month. And as  the visa extension here cost only a little less than flying out of the country we thought we go on holiday for a week….;o)

Dorit @ Uluwatu.

Dorit puts her fears by side and rips over head Uluwatu! Yeah!

Jaime @ Uluwatu

Jaime (say Geime) is our spanish friend who lives in Bali and who we met at the Goldcoast in Australia a few weeks ago. It is with his camera that Erwin shot the pictures. He had to stay dry because of a infected wound on his foot. A few days later Erwin ripped is shorts apart on the reef: no serious infury though..

The last days in Oz without the van was pretty AWESOME! We sold the van and rented a „bomb“. An old light blue Toyota Camry with purple seatcovers….:o)

quiksilver pro

The little stretch of coast line called the „Goldcoast“ -especialy Coolangatta- with its worldclass pointbreak surfspots turned in to a circus when the first day of WCT at Snapper Rocks took off and the second day being canceled due to a tsunami warning.

Erwin at Snapper.

We did early morning surfsessions with the best pro’s around and later watched the heats of the first round on the beach. Amazing!

dorit @ the natural arc

Withoud a van we had to find other sleeping places. This turned out to be no problem with the friends Dorit already had made 4 years ago. THANX AGAIN big time, Carly&Mark, Betty&Steven, San&Xicu!

The last days were pretty rainy, which made it maybe a little bit easier for us to laeve this cool surfy place.

Indo from the plane

After the 5 hour flight from Brisbane we put foot on earth in Indonesia, Bali. Especialy Erwin fell backwards because of the culture shock. It is after all a third world country. And this was his first visit. We had to bargain for our taxi drive from the airport to Kuta and again for the hotel room.

bintang lady

Erwin "Rossi" Biermann