Munich-London-Delhi-Manali-Leh

Hello everybody!

Hope you are fine! After a long period again a life sign from Mr. Coconutyoga. In the moment I am in Goa. Surprise, Surprise… I stayed already two months in India again. Unbelievable.
As expected it wasn`t easy to continue this travel one more time. I arrived in Delhi and just thaught what the hell I am doing there again. I didn`t wanted to stay, even just for some hours. I just took the local bus from the airport and after one hour driving through Delhi towards the Kashmiri gate (the bus-hub for the destinations in Himayal Pradesh, Kashmir and Punjab) I was done with these crazy town one more time. I think I will never get used to these chaotic cities, especially while travelling alone. I often think it would be a lot of fun to be with a friend in one of this city and just laughing about the confusion in his or her eyes, especially when (s)hes facing these chaos for the first time. And then share the experience. I think it’s a totally different feeling. Maybe one day!
So I decided to take the local bus to Manali at 3:30 in the afternoon without taking a real break after the overnight flight. There are more comfortable options to reach Manali, but the private buses are leaving much later, so I ended up to take the most uncomfortable option just to leave immediately.
And it was exhausting. I arrived in Manali the next morning and was just finished after 40 hours travelling without having more than a few hours of sleep in a very uncomfortable position.
I was happy to be again in the mountains. Very late in the season again, but I absolutely prefer these period. The last year I was in Manali alomost the same time.
Again I walked every day some hours in the mountains, enjoyed nice views and the amazing charras over there.
But I left Germany in a very bad mood and for sure my thouths didn`t changed completely only because changing the place.
So I stayed the first day almost totally alone, just talking to some few people. I couldn`t get used to be in India again and was asking myself if I did the right thing.
It just become better when I met Markus, another guy from Austria. We met up on a mountain and we did some more small treks the following days. Something it was just crazy. Climbing up extremely steep rocks where one fall down is your last or making our ways through bad thorns. Actually the same things that always happen if Mr. Coconutyoga decides to go for a walk. What to do? Often I just need this feeling. It is so good to calm the thoughts down through exercises. I feel so alife when I am facing dangers.
I had already decided not to go to Ladakh anymore but that changed as Markus had the same desire.
If Manali was already late it was crazy to go to Ladakh (another 600 miles north). The right thing for crazy people.
But it was even more crazy than I expected…
It started already in the very early morning at 5:00 when we started to wait for our minibus, which didn`t showed up at the appointed meeting point. At 6:00 we found an other driver who could bring us to “our” bus. In the beginning it was full, but most of the locals just wanted to head to Lahaul or Keylong on the half way.
We started in Manali (around 2000m), went up to the Rotang Pass what markes a totally and rapid change of the complete scenery. We came from apple gardens, uncountable trees and rocks and now we faced a much more wilder region. The Pass is already on 4200m and in should not getting lower for a while. Already last year I had been on this pass, it was already snowing (this time the pass was snowfree on that day) but head back to Manali again. Also I had an unforgotten paraglydejump from a place on the way up to the pass. Scary and beautiful at the same time. The following region is called Lahaul and has already like the close Spiti Valley a lot of tibetian influence. The last real “town” is Keylong, surrounded by mighty mountains, a lot of them between 6000 and 700nm. Keylong is in an narrow valley, almost the only place where we could see still trees in the colors of the autumn. What an amazing, stunning drive through these never ending beautiful valleys and never ending sceneries of uncredible high mountains. We have been exited the whole time, I had never seen such an intense respect of the beautiful pure nature around me. I enjoyed it so much.
But then the things changed completely. We came to a bridge, what wasn`t crossable anymore after a truck broke into the bridge. Another truck driver had tried to pass the river, but wasn`t successful and couldn`t be moved neither any more. On each side of the bridge waited around 15-20 trucks. It was already starting to get dark. Some people tried to get the second truck out of the river bad failt. Our drivers (it was a convoy of 5 Minibuses finally) watched the situation and discussed if they could cross the river anymore. That was only crazy. But also they decided there is no choice and decided to get drunk. Perfect! They started to drink a bottle of whiskey and wanted to sleep there and wait for the army the next day to solve the problem. I couldn`t believed it. And they have been not the onöy one. Npbody tried anymore the improve the situation, started drinking and some made a fire in there truck. It was getting freezing cold. Markus was very very uncomfortable with the situation and was realy desperate.
But for sure it wasn` t a nice sitation. Stucked on 4600m after ascending more than 2500 meters is not meant fore a proper acclimtisation. For sure not! After a while some few people started to unload the truck, most of them affected, because being Worker on these truck. The truck was loaded with almost 70 barrels of tar, each of them between 70 and 100 kilogram. There was a young guy who tried hios best to get the barrelas out from the bridge and up the hill. He was just wearing sandals and a shirt and was freezing extremely. I just couldn`t see that. SO ended up helping to get the barrels out from the bridge. Especially turning them upright was heavy shit. But almost nobody else then these eight people came to help. I was realy a little bit angry about the attitude of the most people who didn`t care about some poor people working hard. But whatever. After two hours we finished to unload it. I was really fucked, my stomach had began to hurt and I got headache. Often it was black in front of my eyes. But I also couldn`t stop it. I will never forget this. Finally another truck was able to pull the broken one away from the bridge and the problem was almost solved. The bridge was still damged, but nobody felt responsible to show the drivers, where the had to cross the bridge. SO I ended up to do this job for a while. Crazy! Then we continued our drive through the night. Our driver was drunk, it was almost dark but through the moonshine it was still possible to get mystical views of the surrounding mountains. As it was late already we stopped at a place with three bigger tents, where it is possible to eat, drink and sleep. Still on 4600m. We stayed there overnight. In the night it started snowing and the next morning everything around us was snow covered.
We left in the morning after this cold night. The views have been now even more impressive. After another hour we finally lost our wheel. It was clear already when we started that the wheel wouldn`t survive this journey as it had a bump from the beginning. Lucky enough i5t didn`t disappeared in the night in one of this crazy ascends or descends. Often the road was in an miserable state. I think this must be the craziest and most dangerous road in the world. After a shorter break we headed towards the highest pass on this journey on 5300m. As it was snowing we only met one other vehicle coming down from the pass. And that was a jeep, with much more useful wheels than ours without any profile, small and for sure without chains (why the hell they aren`t taking any with them?). The driver of the car warned us to cross the pass. And there was another option. 4 of the 5 drivers (even our who became more crazy the longer the yourney lasted) decided to drive around the pass. But the fith one didn`t care at all and just headed towards the pass. SO the other drivers followed. And already after 20 minutes we got stucked for the first time. At least we needed hours to get over the pass, especially on the parts in the shadow, where it was freezing cold. We almost went mad with our drivers, becaquse they didn`t cared about us one second. Even the only remaining local told us, they are mad and was full of sorrow. For Markus and me it was just getting more and more dangerous. We even had to walk up the pass and I felt almost like dying. And it is serious very dangerous not to descend after so fast ascending before. Finally we mad it and our drivers started to drive down into lower regions like maniacs. I was lucky to feel more and more air in my lunghts and the landscape became different again. It looked like a moon landscape. And then green and violet mountains appeared (probably because of the minerals). Beatiful! And then the first (very small) village after so many hours through totally deserted landscapes without any humans instead of some very small army posts. And we had seen the very hostile side of this phantastic nature.
After some more hours we finally reached the Indus valley and we have been back into civilization.
The first trees after a long time. The Indus valley is a very wide open one, often more than three cilometres from one side to the other and surrounded by mountains. The average high of this valley is 3500m. We went through this valley and could see beautiful monastiries, small villages and the mighty Indus. Finally we arrived in Leh, the capitol of Ladakh.

To be continued…

Coconutyoga Travels

Unbelievable. I can`t imagine to be back in Asia in the next two weeks.
I am thinking a lot about wher to start and where to go.
I feel unprepared like always. Will be interesting again.
News will follow soon!

Germany

Hello everybody!

It`s a long time ago that i wrote on my blog the last time. The cause was I had a very bad time. And in this case it is almost impossible to write something useful.
Still I didn`t escaped the shadows totally, but it is getting better day by day.
It is not the right place to explain exactly what happened. Let`s say I felt very dissapointed and hurt.
So I had after two mostly nice weeks in Crete, three mostly bad weeks following. I wasn`t talking to almost nobody that time. One cause was for sure that my greek is still not good enough to communicate about more than basic things. Another that I want to be alone when I feel hurt.
And our house is around 4 miles away from the next small town and the beach as well. Sometimes I walked there but i got tired of walking after a while. And I feel sometimes like haunted by other people, when I am in just a bad period. It was really a deep, deep whole.
But it wasn`t only bad. Still the weather was very nice, i cooked every day, listened to music and read a lot of books. More than 15 finally.
I just updatet my literature section. Just check it!
two weeks ago i came back to Germany. The first two days I stayed with Ulf in Mannheim, who was so friendly to give me a nice welcome. He was waiting for me in the middle of the night, even when he had to work the next day very early. Thanks a lot!
After these two days I went to Stuttgart and stayed for some days in Gilad`s flat.
Great to feel so welcome! He just went himself to Crete today and I hope he will have a great time.
Stuttgart has changed a lot in the last months, because of the protests against the "Stuttgart 21"; great to see the city alive, maybe it is the start of a bigger movement, that will increase the direct influence on politics. That would be very nice. Meanwhile I am almost sure, that they will stop the project.
I was almost every day drunk and smoked to much to be honest. But it was just necassary after this really bad time. Sometimes I would just love to have a "normal" life withou these heavy ups and downs. But it is sitll a long path to go.
Important is not to give up, what is difficult enough sometimes.
My Birthday was very crazy, i was much to early much to drunk, so I can`t remember a lot. I think I was drunk like two horses already at nine o clock, when my best friend arrived... You just have to watch the pictures...
But I was still alive at around two o clock when we left. Or lets say I was not sleeping or dead. We had a bill around 300 Euro to pay...
And i can tell you, we have not been too many people.
Still it was nice to see all my friends.
When I saw my face the next day in the mirror, I was very surprised, because i looked like after a fight. I learned later that I tried to fight with Gilad, what wasn`t sucessfull in this state. So my face got in contact with the street...
Even more worse was what happened to two friends of mine. They have been shouting loud on there way home (they are almost sure it wasn`t insulting). Somebody stopped with his car, hit one of them in the face, the other one in the stomach and drove away again. Crazy! Christoph got so horrible pain after a while, that it was necessary to call the ambulance and he had to stay in the hospital for 4 days. He was bleeding from inside. Shit!
The taxi driver who drove Gilad, Toni and me home wasn`t to surprised when we presented a stolen chair and explained him that we just buyed it now in the middle of the night...
Crazy people, crazy birthday.
when Martkus and me visited our friend in the hospital we acted like mafiosi, who are ordered to end our murder. "Do he think he can hide here in the hospital, Luigi?"
"Give me the pillow"; "I don`t like it when unguilty people get ivolved in that shit"
For sure we had to wear sunglasses and tried not to laugh.
Let`s say the people have been kind of irritated.
Whatever, you see, I am very far away from getting back to a serious life.

Actually I am staying in Bremen with my parents and I am trying to do something useful. And this is writing a lot for my book. That isn`t a nice or easy work, as anybody knows who tried to write. Sometimes I think I should stop to write about bad memories, because it is getting to painful sometimes, but after a while I know again, that I have to do it. It is so necessary to reflect the things and give them a place outside of my mind.
Maybe I get more free this way.
And I have seen Berlin finally. I just had some hours, but it was very interesting.
In some days I will head back to the south of Germany. The next weekend we will have a meeting from our education and I am looking forward to see some people agein.
And soon after I will head back to India!!!
I hope I will be still able to visit Ladakh, before it is not possible anymore because of the weather conditions. Varanasi and Calcutta are waiting ass well.
And this time I will make it to visit kerala and Hampi in the indian South. And to come to Goa is no question as well.
I know, plans are changing all the time, but I am almost sure that Cambodia and Thailand will follow as well.
Around May 2011 it is probably over with travelling for a longer time.
I hope I will have the power to make this plans true.
Anyway, I try to write more often again and hope you are well!!!

Much Love,

Mr. Coconutyoga

P.S.: also check the new pictures in the second last blog entry and the two videos in the last! A Tribute to phantastic Junkerry will also follow soon!

oh...before I forget: don`t drive drunk with the bike...can be painful as well...

Tribute to Laguna Vista and Kala Patar

View from the "Magic Rock" near the Laguna Vista over the Lagoon





View of the Himalayan Range while ascending to Kala Patar

Crete

Hello everybody!

I am still in Crete. The weather is fantastic. Meanwhile my family left. My parents, uncle and aunt already on monday, my brother followed two days later.
Now Manoli (of course the son of our friend Manoli and as well the father of another Manoki...) and his wife are learning in our house for their examins.
It is amazing how qiet I always get when I stay here for a longer time. But also my Greek is still in a miserable stat, so it is not easy to communicate to a lot of people.
But it is my home in a way and I feel always when i am here, how much this place influenced my personality. Often, when i was in Asia, i thought the people are in a way so similiar to the greek people. And for sure the Greeks influenced the asian culture and the asian influence especially on Crete is also not to negate.

The birthday of my mother was very nice. She enjoyed herself and we had some really nice guests. Another day we went like every year to a place, hidden in the mountains, where is celebrated every year a religious event, followed by some dance, eating and drinking. I like the atmosphere in this place. This time i used the time to climb on the top of the mountain as well. Probably i will do it again in the next days. I still love trekking!!! But the most funny part is always the way up and down with our friend Manoli, who is driving the Tractor.

The day, when my brother left I was on a raggae concert. This was fantastic, even if i couldnt understand a lot. There was almost no strangers instead of the charming english ladies and the jamaican Guy with them i went there. Still very young by heart, even if they are more than double my age...
On the dance floor I was absolutely the only stranger and i saw a lot of surprised faces. But it was great, i did a lot of dancing even if it was very hot in the wonderful stone theater. Some Pictures will follow!

As I heared my friend Johannes escaped out of Ladakh without injuries. I am very happy about that. It was a dangerous situation and i was full of sorrows.

I hope two good friends of mine will also have a good and safe tracvel. They will fly into Moscow, stay there 4 days and then going on the Transib Route. All the best for you!!!

I will go in some days probably to Naxos to visit one of my female cousins, Ruth. This will be very nice.
After staying another 10 days or something I will come back to germany for another 4 weeks before heading to Asia again.
I know, i am a very happy fellow at the moment. I am very thankful for that. It has been not only bright in my life...
Stay true, yours,

Mr. Coconutyoga

Himalayatrek

Hello everybody!

Time for a short Update. I am still in Crete and as I don`t have any flight ticket or anything else, I don`t know when I will leave this place. Probably I will stay another week. My parents and my uncle and aunt will leave tomorrow and my brother 2 days later. I will relax probably a little more... I am actually very tired from writing.
Actually I even don`t know where I will head to then. But I also really don`t care.
At the moment I am busy with writing down my experiences of the second part of my travel, waht is not only joy... But like last time it is a unique possibiliy to get out a lot of things out of my memory, that I almost forgot. Espacially the smaller details.
Maybe I will return to Germany for a second stopover, mostly to have some time to work on with my book. I have already material for around 300 pages, but there is so much to do, until I will be satisfied. There are still to many fragments and to less really ready parts.
The decision to come back to India is inbetween clear. There has to happe a lot to change this plan again.
And Cambodia and Laos are also calling for me already.
But maybe I could use the time in Germany to make some first connections with people, who could be able to edit the book or even publish it. Dreams are allowed!
The remaining time I am going to swim, sitting in the sun or reading. I just read a fascinating book from Tahir Shah about the magical India, about his experiences as a student of a magican and just started a book from Terziano Terzani: Flying without wings: a journey to the asian Mystiries. I can just reccomend both of them.
Check also the book reccomendments. I just started this section.
As well I finished my full report about the trek in the Kumbu-Region from Jiri to the Kala Patar and Everest Base Camp. For the moment it is just in german available.
Please check it and comment it!!!

Crete, Greece

Hello everybody! In between I arrived in Crete, the biggest Island of Greece. I will spend the next two weeks with my parents, my younger brother and my uncle and aunt. In some days my mother will celebrate her 60. Birthday, actually the reason I came here. Our place here is just amazing. The small but wonderful house is around five miles away from the sea. On the other side we are surrounded by mountains (okay, not like in Nepal, but majestic, especially so close to the sea). We are living very close to a small greek village, where are very good friends of us living. I was here the first time, when i was thirteen months old and since then almost every year. So it feels like a second home, even if i still can`t speak greek, like i would like to do. But one day I will stay here for a longer time and then I will finally learn it. My Grandfather was the first in the family, who visited Crete. He was a Translator here in the times of the second world war. And he came back with my Grandmother, after he was able to come again. And again and again they came. So they became friend to Manoli and his Family. My Parents followed and also stayed here, as often as they could. In the End of the 80`s my parents and grandparents started to plan this small house (my grandfather was also an architect and my father has a lot of skills as well), buyed some ground from our friend and my grandparents watched over the project, when it was built, what is very necessary in Greece... So in 1989 the house was finished. Still it was not allowed for Foreigners to owe own ground or houses in Greece, so it was officially Manoli, who was the owner in the bginning. Later he transcribed the house to us. That time it was so much cheaper than today. Later it would have been almost impossible to realise this house. It is a very peacful place, the views are like postcards, we are cooking for ouselves, sleeping outside and when the moon will get smaller we will have a phantastiv view at the stars, because there is almost no light pollution. I will have time to write down my reports about the second part of my big travel, improve this blog and also swim, read and relax. What will happen after staying here is widely open. As I had some very spezial meetings in Stuttgart, there is maybe a reason to come back. But still i would like to go to Asia again as soon as possible. My Family would like to see my in Germany again and would give my the time and space to write for my book. After I could still travel again. But now it is time to arrive in Crete and settle down for some days, before i make any decision. But how did I came to Crete? I didn`t wanted to flight. I had so many flights in the last months (10 in four months) and actually I don`t like to travel that fast. Especially flying directly from Asia to Europe is always a kind of nightmare, not because it is that long, but because the change is just too fast. So I decided to make the same travel, I did almost exactly one year ago, when I started to travel: I took a train from Stuttgart to Munich, to catch the night train to Venetia. As I had only a seat, I expected that I wouldn`t get a lot of sleep. Like the last time I meet some nice people, who are doing the Interrail; this time two guys from Brazil and another one from Norway. Very nice people. And they have been very pleased to meet me as I was, also because there was another german man in our compartment. And he was already fucking bloody drunk, when I arrived. He always tryed to talk to the other guys, but only in german and especially one of them was a little scared about him. He seemed to be a professional drinker, not totally stupid but had sadly a attitude of racism. But actually it was very funny to watch him. Conversation with him was also in german very problematic becaus of his state of mind... The Guys from Brazil and me went to the Bar to have some white beer and good talk. Later a english guy joined us and I came as well in contact with a german travel group, who finished there education and went with there teachers to Rome, the final destination of the train. I joined them after a while and it was very funny. As it belongs to such a trip after finishing the education they have been very very drunk and made a lot of noise. Some times they have been very short before beeing kicked out of the train... As i couldn`t afford another drink i just stayed sober and had still a lot of fun to talk to them and laugh with and about them. The remainig time i tried to sleep a bit. Also our german „friend“ was in the same danger to get kicked out of the train. He needed ten minutes to find his ticket again and talked nonsense to the italian service personal. And only in german... Once I heared him shouting from outside the train when we stayed for a longer time in Verona. He complained about his missing luggage. He just could`t realise that the train has been sepereted (the missing part was already on the way to Rome) and couldn`t find his place again as already often before. Then he asked my, if I could imagine if he could buy some beer at the train station... The plan of the three Interrail-travelers was to go to Milano in the morning and to come back to Venetia later. Once, when our train stopped, they saw another train, that would leave in some minutes to Milano. So they decided quickly to change the train. One of them forgot his sleeping bag. I tryed to bring it to them, but was not sure how long our train would stop. As I was already expecting, that they didn`t realised the missing item, I was already relaxing again, when I heared somebody shouting my name. It was one of the brazilian guys, who was staying in the train, maybe 7 meters away. „Throw my sleeping bag!“ And I did. Through the window, which was only possible to open 25 centimeters wide. And I was sucessfull, what affected a lot of joy and laughing at the other train... Finally I arrived in Venetia in the early morning and as I was very tired and absolutely sure I wouldn`t be able to stay awake the whole night, after so many days with so less sleep, I decided to go to the same hostel where I stayed last Year. The only problem there is that you can`t check in before 4 in the afternoon. So I lay down in the garden and had some sleep. After that I walked through Venice until the evening. Such a wonderful city. Very crowded in the summer and almost everywhere unbelievable expensive. Renting a Gondola for example would cost 80 Euro for 45 minutes, a espresso easily more than 10 Euro... But Venice is also nice without much money. And the dorm in the hostel costs 20 Euro and there is a supermarket with reasonable prices very close. Unbelievable how many beatiful women are in Venice... And my Charisma seems to be amazing in the moment. But you know: i am not like this, even if I`m not always pleased about it. I am still searching for real love. However. In the evening i meet one of the guys i would share the dorm with. A very nice guy from England. We had a nice talk. Then I went again into Venice. I love to get lost in this beatiful town. And it`s so easy if you don`t concentrate on the path. But as I was amazingly tired I was finally very pleased, when I found the Hostel again. Still the english guy was sitting on the terrace, in beetween acompanied by a guy from Taiwan. It was very funny to talk to them. I told them about some stories in Asia and how I became Mr. Coconutyoga. Especially the reaction of the Guy from Taiwan was interesting. He told my, that my life sounds for him like a movie (and i am not quite sure if he believed me everything). And I realised how right he is. Anyway, we had a good time and I smoked also some powerful Basilikum with the english guy, who looked then after a while very destroyed :-) The next day I had another short walk through Venice before I went to the port to get my ticket for the Passage to Greece. Leaving Venice by Ship is a very nice experience, because you are so close to the place of San Marco and the Lido. You can see almost the whole Panorama of Venice. Then I fall asleep. I had two beers with me from the super market and drunk them in the sun when i woke up... After that I met some very nice and funny people, who used to live in Berlin-Neukoelln for decades. We had a very good talk and I got invited for a ouzo. As I was already very drunk then I decided to make a drinking break (also because I had only money left for a hot dog and one last white beer. After having that beer later, i got invited by an austrian couple for a glass of wine and then by two guys from Salzburg for some Ouzo. But I just had a little bit and was prepared to fall asleep after. But this two guys had the certain plan to get in contact with girls... So they finally started to talk to a group of irish girls. They have been already amazing drunk. One of them had birthday. So we joined them. It was very very funny. Later we went to the disco on the ship and at least then everything went kind of crazy. It was a small dance floor, surrounded by small tables, occupied by lonely and greedy truck drivers who watched the girls dancing... The irish girls apoached the scene and tookover the place J They didn`t missed much crazy things to do: shouting in the mikrophone of the DJ, wasting the dance floor with their drinks, making very funny but also very displaced choreografies in the middle of the dance floor, so that everybody else had to leave and so on and so on. Sometimes i was laughing extremely hard about them. As I wasn`t able to afford another drink I got more and more sober but also got more and more into a dance feeling. Actually I stayed there until the disco closed... The offer of the girls to join them to go to Korfu was tempting but impossible to follow without any money and the birthday of my mother ahead. I met also some other nice people in this evening and it was a good one. The next day I had to sleep a lot and the journey seemed to be very short. And I was so lucky. Somebody gave me his cigarettes without asking him and the parents of the two guys from Salzburg and another couple from switzerland gave my a nice lunch package, as they heard that I was hungry and didn`t had any money. So great! From Patras, where I arrived at 8 in the evening I took the bus to Athens (for sure I had still the money for the bus and the ferry to Crete even if it was so tempting to use it for drinks ;-) ), where I arrived around one o`clock in the night. As I couldn`t afford any place to stay I went to the athenaen hill „Lykavettos“, where I found a place where I could sleep. I had another cigarette at the top, where you have the best view in Athens and then went to a short but good sleep (the only problem is that you have to sleep on a very steep ground). The following morning I went again to the top of the hill and then through Athens with a lot of Stops in Parks, at the Areopag, very close to the Acropolis and went through the Plaka, the most charming area in Athens, before I went to Pireaus to catch my ship. After another night on the ship with the last food of the lunch package I arrived in Crete. And here I am!!! Much love from Greece, Mr. Coconutyoga

Benztown-Austrian border-Benztown

Hello everybody!

Not easy to write anything at that time, because most of the things that happened in the last time are not to tell in this space. There has been a lot of nice meetings with old and new friends but at the same time a lot of very crazy stories.
I am enjoying this time in Stuttgart very much. I was really very surprised in the beginning, because i didn`t expected to have such a phantastic time. My last visit here was very different, not only because of the weather conditions. My last time in germany started also very nicely and later changed totally. I thought i would have lost the feeling to be at home in this region, where i am actually living my whole life. I got very sad about this. Now the situation is different. I feel really good here, there are almost no bad memories left and i am enjoying to nvisit all my favorite places and my phantastic friends. Thank you very much for your presence and hospitality! I changed my "accomodation" very often and found a lot of open doors. Special thanks to Christoph, Markus, Gilad, Ralf, Vinc and everybody else who offered me to stay in his place and share some nice time together!
I will leave to Greece in a few days and i decided to there by train, ship and bus, like i did it just in the beginning of my trip exactly one year ago. I am looking especially forward to take a ship to reach Hellas. Even after 30h i am not really bored. It is maybe the most amazing way to travel. Sleeping on the deck, year!
In Greece i will stay for two weeks and celebrate the 60. birthday of my mother. Also my aunt, uncle, father and brother will be there.
Sonme days ago i went already almost to Romania with my oldest friend by car. We have not been really prepared, but we have been full of will to fullfill this adventure. But when we reached the austrian border, my friend decided to turn around, what was actually a very good decision for him (no comment about our state at all...), because after this wise decision he still got some problems with his girlfriend, who was left alone with the massage: "i call you. Trust me!"... He wrote this when we went to his place to pick up his passport ;-) The pictures are also from this shorttrip (4.00 Stuttgart 6:45 Austrian Border 9:30 Stuttgart).
There would be a lot of other stories, but like i told. Impossible!
After Greece i will probably return to Germany for a while. For how long is relly open. Some things are not really possible to plan. I still have the desire to return to Asia again. I try to read the signs...

i would be pleased about some comments, critics or whatever!

Much love from Mr. Coconutyoga

Stuggitown

Hello my friends,

Hope you are all well. I feel great. In between i arrived in stuttgart, where i lived 15 years already. Great to see my friends! The weather is amazing, my mood as well. It is like riding on a wave and this feeling lasts already for over 4 weeks. Great to feel that good after all the struggeling in my life. A lot of friends offered to stay in there place. I am very thankful for that!!! I stayed already in Christphs place, went with him with bycicles to the park and played fresbee. Also nice to meet Vinc, Gilad and Sebastian at the "palace" (a former public toilet what is now an institution in benztown). Actually i am staying with my best friend. Like always it feels if we stayed all the time together, even if its only the second time we see each other in the last year. Yesterday i had the first day since two weeks without drinking any alcohol...
Time also to say thanks for the great time in switzerland. Everybody was welcoming me. Very nice feeling. And so great to see Axelle, Noah, Junette, Tom, Domingo, Wiebke, Laurence, Boris... nice to share time with such wonderful people!
Thanks especially to Tom and Domingo for the hospitality!!! Great! I am already looking forward to see you again!
still i have to visit a lot of people and so i will stay probably for another ten days here in Stuttgart.
And after that i will travel to Greece, probably by train and ship, to join my family in Crete to celebrate the 60. Birthday of my mother. What will happen then is not really certain; i have the desire to go to Asia again. Just now i am thinking about going to Iran first. But lets see. Actually i am living only for the moment. And thats just great, especially for somebody who is used to think too much like me.

Much love from Mr. Coconutyoga

Introduction

For the start some more information. In switzerland i am staying with a very good friend, i know from GOA, India. Actually he got 50 years old around one week ago and we celebrated his birthday last weekend. He had no clue i would come. I was glad to see that the surprise worked. I decided not to tell him before, becaus it was not an easy decision to leave asia this time. Finally i made this travel from Indonesia to switzerland, starting from Gili Trwangan, near to Lombok, over Bali, Bangkok, where i missed my flight (what is another longer story), Berlin and Zuerich, where i had to catch a last train to arrive in his place. For sure i was damaged from the travel, all the stress i had in the last 2 days and the jetlag. So i was not able to parcitipate at the party like i wanted. But it was still very nice, to see all the people i know from Goa again here in this wonderful place. And to see the totally surprised Tom was also worth to come. He was looking as if he was seeing a ghost...
And now i am still here, enjoying the peaceful nature around. Its just a great time, even when im still bewtween different worlds. But this is a nice place to be in this state. Im not totally arrived, but its also not my plan to settle down. I am going to write my book now and still go on with my travels.
Soon i will start to tell about the coconutyoga world, about my experiences in India, Nepal, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia and Bangkok.

A New Blog is born...

heartly welcome to my blog!

There will be a lot of work for me until this blog will look as i like it. What can you expect from this blog? I will place here the stories from my Journeys.
I am already since one year on the road, mostly in Asia and so i will start with some older stories (old means starting one year before what is actually not really long ago but what feels already like many, many years). As i am actually in switzerland and will go than for my second stopover to germany in this year, there will be no really new stories for a while, but so i have time to edit the older post and place them here. In around 6 weeks you will hear again new stuff from Asia!

Hope you enjoy it!!!