Ulu Watu - Bali

We have fallen in love!!! there is no words to describe how we feel about this special surf spot down in the south of Bali..its beauty and radiation of energy and life has taken us into its bann.. its like falling over and over in love again when hearing the name or looking at the pictures..sorry, there is not much more I can say about this spot..we are over the moon, been reborn a million times over and over:)

Sacred Monkey Forrest Ubud - Bali

From the Rice fields down to the next impressive sight. The monkey Forrest is a small rain forest dwelt by some group of monkeys and other tropical animals. It is strategically located in the hearth of Ubud village. The monkeys are believed as Gods Guard of Dalem Agung Temple, The Hindu Temple which exist in the middle of forest. There are three Holy Temples there and have been existing surround the forest and estimatedly built in the middle of 14 century. We absoulutely were stunned of the gigantic trees and lianas on which the monkeys swang across with a speed of light at times. It should be about an hours drive from denpasar but as we managed to get lost in the streets of denpasar each time we had to drive trough, it took us ages! no bother as the nice thing about travelling, you dont have to be anywhere at a certain time (well, thats at least our idea of travelling). At this stage we were getting pretty sore on our back parts from sitting on the scooter though..:)

Jatiluwih Rice Terraces

The Rice fields of Jatiluwih give a new meaning to the word green. They crawl up the sides of the hills like steps leading you towards the sky. And like so much of Bali, the terraces are as equally empty as they are beautiful. Jatiluwih was recently listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for its preservation of traditional Balinese farming techniques. So you can imagine, we both were sweept away from its stunning beauty and the infinite freedom of peace as there was hardly any one up there and the temperature was quite pleasant seeing we were on 700 metres above sea level and approximately 48km away from Denpasar.

Monkey Temple

So after another fantastic breakky, which by the way we are already addicted to at this stage!and is a culinary delight to my spiced up taste buds!, we hit the roads with our scooter. Quite happy that Lars was driving we thread our way trough the busy Indonesian streets to the south of the Island where we went to visit the Monkey Temple in Ulu Watu. Humidity, heat, cheeky as well as semi agro aggressive, accessory stealing monkeys and a lovely purple sarong for Lars were part of our Temple experience. We discovered that we prefer dried coconut to fresh and soft flesh of the fruit and that petrol prices were ridiculously low..

Bali - Indonesia

After a few hours living with the unknown whether or not we will be departing to Denpasar from Perth today or not due to some difficulties with our airline because of the volcanic ash from mount merapi in Java which has been errupting again, we ended up in the busiest part of the beautiful Indonesian Island of Bali which is called Kuta/Legian. After wandering around for several hours trying to find a suitable place to sleep and taking in all the new impressions, we finally crashed in our hotel room (which by the way was around 14AUD per night for the double room!). After an awesome indonesian rice breakfast we hit the streets to explore the markets and crazy party town which is full of tourists, market stalls, lots of traffic, western food places and clubs/pubs and magic mushroom shops aswell as locals selling drugs on every corner. to cut it short: terrible! not our taste at all to be honest. Anyways, after an exhausting day shopping for Lars and bairgaining we failed to hit the clubs as we were way too exhausted! ;) so what do we learn out of this? do NOT spend a whole entire day in the streets of Kuta! Jumping to the conclusion, we decided to hire a scooter and drive off to the country side the following day..

A fantastic day..

What does it need for a fantastic day? A wide range of possibilities and options of course. I would consider that yesterday was one of these days, that definately deserves to be called as such!:) After a refreshing and energizing run around the lake at Claremont I went for a coffee and catch up with one of my lovely girlfriends. Subsequently a visit at Subiaco Farmers Markets was on the list where Lars waited for me with one of the best woodoven Pizzas I have ever had.. Seeing Lars desperately wanted to try out his new Kitesurfing gear we made our way down to Leighton beach where we met up with our Friend Anne for a session of Kitesurfing, fooling around with trying our best handstands and some beach yoga followed by some awesome tasting Sushi which was just about melting on your tongue it was so tender and fresh with the simultaneous view of a beautiful sunset over the indian ocean..what more does one want or need!?
Here some impessions for you:)

Visitor in our Garden

Whilst I was chatting to Dad in our beautiful garden, enlightend by some autumn sun Dad sighted this beautiful little visitor on one of our Sunflowers..:) Isn`t he gorgeous?!

Olma and a walk in St.Gallen

Today we went to see the opening ceremony parade for OLMA 2010 (Exhibition for agriculture and nutrition which is on during 10days every year in October) in the streets of St.Gallen. After the event we decided to fill our hungry rumbling tumbling bellies with some lovely food at Cafeteria da Mina followed by a beautiful walk from Notkersegg over the three ponds (where we go swimming in temperatures a little higher than at present ;) ) down to St.Gallen`s historic downtown/ cloister quarter.
After watching some of the Bike Soccer Championships at the Athletic Centre and a cup of Coffee and cake we headed towards our lovely home. I made us a warming and fresh vegetable soup when we got home, jummyyyyy!;) What a beautiful Swiss Autumn day!

St.Moritz and Davos

Fall has finally arrived, one of my favourite times of the year where all the leafs on (or falling off) trees, aswell as the grass change colour and cover the country with a special magical feel:) The change in season mostly brings a change in ones personal life too which definately is applicable to mine as few of you might already know. I have resigned at Davos Hospital where I have been working (and living) 11 Months at labour ward as a full time midwife (and part time as a community midwife giving Antenatal Courses etc). After 11 Months of challenges, experiances, lots of sleepless 24 to 48 hour shifts in charge on my own and (mostly) healthy babies and Mums, new friendships and life experiance, Fate has decided for me to usher in to a new era of my life.
I am leaving to Australia with a stopover in London end of October for 4 Months... Feelings of excitment and jitter are running trough me at the same time for the time to come, inquisitive for what is to come..;)

Here some Impressions from my last days up in Bündnerland, the largest and eastmost canton of Switzerland where I now have been living and working for almost a year..;)


Best Vermicelle(a traditional fall-desert out of chestnuts and merengues) I have tasted in my entire Life at Cafe Scheiders in Davos

Lake Davos

Walking home from the train Station



Enjoying the sound of 2 Men playing their Alphorn. The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a natural wooden horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere. Similar wooden horns were used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe, from French Switzerland to the Carpathians.

Brakky in famous St.Moritz
A walk along Lake St.Moritz (where the famous horse races are held on during winter)


and some more impressions..