New Zealand.... scenery like Norway on steroids ;)

With a heavy heart my 3 month tourist visa for the "land down under" was coming to an end, once again it was time to grab my backpack and move on. Next adventure: New Zealand 
A fellow travel friend met me at the airport in Auckland. Ok so we might have had a tiny communication dysfunction, since he showed up with his x-small car, a Porsche. I was stood on the side walk with a 7,6 foot min mal surf board...

Had a blast driving around Australia...

Wanted to see the land down under, so when my Indonesian visa had expired I flew via Singapore to Oz. Met up with an acquaintance from my time at the surf camp in Portugal, rented a camper van, strapped our surfboards to the roof and set off. 

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Finding myself in Bali...NOT after reading Eat, Pray Love.

Summer in Portugal ended and it was time to move on... where better to head than surfing mecca in Indonesia, Bali? So packed up my backpack bought a flight ticket and 20 hours later I felt the magic of Bali. I spent lazy days living in Seminyak riding my scooter down to the peninsula to surf or chilling with new like minded friends on the beach....

Go with the flow... Surfing!

First stop on my trip was a week on a surf school in Portugal. The Surf Experience. This is a surf camp ran by the Lipke family. Marlon Lipke the only ever professional German surfer on the tour. I had always wanted to learn how to surf, and together with a friend we decided to check it out....