With the family at Oecheteal beach

A picture of us while we had a great time at the beach:

Danny at the promenade

Sundowners in Kampot

It's common at the riverside to shoot such pictures pretty much every evening:

That's aside from a paragliding tandem flight with me at Bokor from November on one of the thinks that shouldn't be missed when visiting this beautiful city.:)
The mosoon hasn't passed yet and the wind is back to W. Flying here should be fine pretty soon.

Michaela this morning at the market

We found a nice place at the market after arrival in Kampot, where we used to take a coffee pretty much every morning all together before heading back home for Danny's schoolwork. They also make a stunning noodle soup for 5000 Riel (1,25$) with veggies and pork. While looking at my beloved wife I'm in relationship since over 23 years and married since over 18 years I took this picture of her to remind me what a lucky guy I'm actually are.

A town guy starts growing food-Update

Because of certain weather issues a lot of our little tomato plants didn't make it and only the larger onces survived the typhoon and the following flood. I keep you posted on that topic.:)

Kampot under water!

The city is suffering hard from the still ongoing heavy rain. The first picture is taken from the bridge, where you can see how close the city is from getting overflown by the rising tide of the Kampot river. The second picture was made from the first restaurant next to the new bridge.

Any more rain and Kampot will be in sirious trouble, once the river has taken the last barrier.:(

Update:
In the later afternoon the situation is getting a bit better since it stopped raining since noon. The pic below was shot at about 4pm from the old bridge towards the new one:

I'm not realy the flood expert by any means but I asume that another rise of the rivers tide wouldn't be to good.:(

The main road alongside the Kampot river.

What's at least as worse is that we haven't any running water at home since this morning, very funny!

Update 2:
At the next day the situation has improved, the river tide is about 30cm. lower, the promenade free of water but not cleaned up yet. Even the tap water is back on again.:)

Oh man, homemade Cambodian fruit wine!

Because of the overwhelming hospitality of our neighbors we barely can make it to our house without getting invited from the neighbors to try some local specialities. In the picture above you see some of the devasting homemade fruit wine from our neighbors. One glass of it and you can see two wifes where there was only one before.:) The taste is just as addictive as the friendliness of the locals once they know you a bit better.:)

A town guy starts growing food

It was about two weeks ago when I planted some tomato seeds under one of our banana trees. The seeds was just taken out of a outstanding nice tomato bought at the market and got burried about a cm. In the best soil I could find in our garden. It only took five days until the first little plants started to show themselfes. By now they are about 15 cm., one of them shows already the third leave pair and they are growing amazingly fast under the tropical sun. Today I did plant some more and also some cucumber seeds taken out of a fresh one and be curious how long that will take. This is the first time in my life that I'm growing my own food instead of buying and I enjoy this new hobby.:) I will update this posting once a while to keep you informed about our veggie experiment.

Crime is on the rise in Cambodias coastal towns

Khmertimes
Dear tourists,
Be adviced to take precautions while beeing in the Kingdom. Particualary the ladies be warned to travel on your own after dark by making sure the taxi or Tuk Tuk driver is known by your guesthouse of departure. Ask the owner to order a taxi for you. This will prevent the driver of trying something harmfull to you when he knows that his identity is known. Don't make yourself a target by carrying valuable belongings. If you have larger amounts of money with you store it seperately with only a small amount beeing visible while you pay. Travel in larger groups after dark and take care of each others safety. Also be aware that it's a common method among criminals to put paralyzing drugs in their victims drinks in order to rob or rape them afterwards-Don't leave your drink unatended at any time. This is a very friendly society but under every tree are also some bad apples, keep that in mind while enjoying the beautiness of the Kingdom of wonder.:)

Celebrating ancestors day with the neighbors

Right now we're partying with our neighbors the traditional holiday. The Cambodians are lovely people, who like to celebrate together, sing karaoke, drink beer and enjoy their oustanding food in huge communities. We love this country.:)

My family is of course also with me and enjoys the typical Cambodian hospitality.

If you just could be here too.:)

Fascinating landscape in Kampot

The city is surounded by a breathtaking landscape. Definitely a place for nature friends and families. We just discovered this part of the Kampot river while following it upstream. While driving into Kampot just turn left right after the new bridge and keep driving until you reach another little bridge donated by the German government to take such a nice picture:

Pics of last ground handling

Seems Michaela got the hang of taking nice pics with the smartfone. Just want to share her best ones with you.:)

The passenger harness fits every size from our 11 year old son to our friend from Kentucky, who is 1,95 cm and over 100kg.

The pilot harness is really huge and can replace any sofa in terms of comfort. With the rescue installed and the spreader bars attached it adds up to about 8 kg. plus water, which of course every pilot is supposed to carry for safety reasons, particulary here in the hot tropics.:)

Ground handling clip

A short video clip of the first ground handling sessions with the new tandem. The wind was very gusty and went on and off every few seconds, hard to keep the wing up for a bit longer. That's why I decided to try some solo handling instead and will choose another spot closer to the sea next time for more laminar wind conditions to exercise with a passenger attached.
Some friends came over to watch the show as well as the family.

Just picked up the Paragliding tandem gear in Vietnam

What a trip, I started by night bus to Saigon two days ago, arrived yesterday in the morning, jumped on the next free motorbike taxi to the wing distributor, where I got welcomed by a huge family and a wild kid, who started playing with me the right away as I just would belong to the family. When the seller, Mr. Cuong arrived, we opened the box from Ozone together and checked the delivery. Of course, everything was perfectly in order, so back on the motorbike taxi with this huge backpack in hi-speed through Ho Chi Minh City, to the bus station. There I had to wait for like eight hours for the night bus back. The bus took the route over Ha Tien, which was far faster than going over Phnom Penh like before. We finally passed the Bokor Mountain in Kampot on our way back as a appetizer for the coming tandem flights from the back side of the old casino on top of it.
The gear:

The Oxygen1 harness on the left is the pilot's one, the Oxygen2 opposite for the passenger. I had already adjusted it, installed the rescue parachute in this picture as well as attached the spreader bars and connected them to the rescue, so the gear is ready be used in long ground handling sessions ahead, prior taking it to the mountain. The first launch exercises with the family will be of course filmed and published on the blog very soon.:)
Last but not least, the equipment is very nice made, with a lot of attention to detail, nothing found yet to complain about and I'm not wondering that the former small company, who made my so much liked solowing, the "Addict" has grown to the most successfull wing maker in the world when it comes to sales and competition results in the meantime.
After five years abstinence from paragliding, it's definitely time to fly again, often felt kind of "ground-sick" when looking up to the clouds like a dog who can't reach the bone on the other side of the fence.:) Hopefully the upcoming rainy saison will stay back until end of May to do a few flights before monsun kicks in. We are also planing to move to Kampot in September to get the best out of the next fly season.

We went fishing

Our trip was over after only one hour because Danny felt dizzy all of a sudden and we went back home. Our catch after fishing from 3-4pm.

A few impressions of Sihanouk Ville

Just a few pictures I've taken recently of the city.:)

The Oecheteal beach.

The public part of the Sokha beach.

The Serendepity road at night.

The main market.

Our favorite vegetables vendor.

I'm about to leave on a business trip to north-east China in less than a week from now for a few days and will publish some more pictures from the breathtaking city Xián in the Shaanxi province as soon as I'm back.:)

Daniels Writing

Some most recent handwriting of our home-schooled eleven year old boy:

The self chosen topic was this time the capitol of Russia. He asked me a lot of questions about the city, so we went on Wikipedia and Danny wrote six pages about Moscow, he translated it afterwards verbally into German. The translation took him about one and a half hours, by the way.
So far the news about our home schooling progress with Danny.:)

Part-time father Sascha at work

We are daily taking care of a little girl from the neighborhood who has no father anymore for a couple of hours while her mom is teaching at school.
She misses him obviously a lot and hugs me often as tight as she can. We are also teaching her some English and even German as you can hear in the video clip. She picks up everything like a sponge and even calls me "Liebling", what means darling in German since she did hear Michaela saying that.:) Life never gets boring in the kingdom of wonder. :)

Encrypted email

For friends and blog users, who want to send us encrypted emails or files we're publishing upon request our public key:

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Thunderbird client + enigmail addon + WinPt = 100% confidential email exchange,but never write your private post in the browser, at best directly on the cliboard instead to enhance safety. This combination is very simple to use, guess I maybe could teach it even to a monkey.:-)
The simplest solution works the following:
After downloading and installation go to WinPT in your system tray, click to "edit clipboard" and write or copy your text right there. Then click "PGP" on top and "encrypt" it with the public key of the recipient you've imported in your key manager in advance. Copy the encrypted text into your common email provider's compose section and send it,done. this way you never write text into the browser where it could be detected and recorded. The encrypted files or messages could also been send by Skype or even better "Torchat" once you exchanged each others Tor-chat-user-id by encrypted email.
To open the message the recipient copies the encrypted text into his clipboard and follows the decrypt procedure,done. Of course the public keys need to be exchanged via email before (I just posted mine on the website) in order to to use each others public key to encrypt the massages. Long story short: It doesn't even need an email client to do the job quick and convenient.

Update:
"Yes, we scan"! We've to read your emails, you could be a criminal, child abuser or a "Terrorist"!!!:

Day Trading

After some questions about my particular stock trading style I made a video.:) Every day is different, this one was a very easy one so far and BASF is a piece of cake at the present day. Enjoy my YouTube movie about "Day Trading":