Coming home for Christmas

It took us a week to get used to Kiel, the winter with sub-zero temperatures and gray landscape. The difference was really big compared to Bali at 36 degrees. The body shows it and needs a lot of rest and sleep. In addition to many great reunions and delicious German Christmas traditions, we were very happy to be here and spend the holiday of love with our loved ones! That's sooo worth it.

The first few days we stopped in Hamburg and enjoyed the time with Kathi, Carlo, and Fiete. Simply world-class, such a baby :) After that, we slowly settled back into Kiel, clarified a few jobs for January, and prepared ourselves for the long time in Vanuatu. From February/March, we will live there and Michel will be following the Olympic project with the women's beach volleyball team. He will travel with the team around the world, organize everything around training on site, and decide who plays when and where.
Anni will open a small physiotherapy practice and teach yoga until summer 2020. The demand is high, competition is low, and the paperwork is manageable. After a long period of consideration and weighing up in Australia, we finally decided on the adventure and hope that everything works out now :) This also meant that we are home in Kiel for Christmas. This decision consequently gave the impulse to fly home, and traveling around had already slipped down the priority list anyway.
The process was exciting, emotional, challenging, interesting, wild... and the next few months will be the same. It's fun and stressful at the same time. It is dreaming and reality at the same time. Laughing and crying in the same moment, and at the end you think that you are now living and want to try it out. The freedom to do everything is there, and despite the distance, everything can be brought together. The plan is to come home again in summer and Christmas, unless the celebration is moved to Vanuatu ;)
We are very much looking forward to the time and what comes next...!? Who knows

What is clear is that all our friends will get a guest room in Vanuatu. The journey to the other end of the world takes time, money, and patience, but it's worth it :)