Pousada Vila Bela Vista Preà We stayed the whole time at the pousada Vila Bela Vista Preà, run by an American-Brazilian couple. The place is awesome! Big swimming pool, very good restaurant, where breakfast, lunch and dinner is served. The wooden bungalows are...
Winter is not far away.... however, a few mild days invite for a late afternoon bike ride up to Bachtel. If you're interested in the background Swiss Alp peak names, check peakfinder's view from Bachtel:
Mid October trip, one week vacation in Hyères, France. Mild weather and two days awesome kitesurfing with strong wind. As opposed to the great mistral winds, we had south-east wind, blowing offshore in the kite spot Madraque. It turned out to be really amazing flat...
Beautiful mellow SUP session on Lake Pfäffikon.
Another kite weekend trip to Lago di Como! We were not so much on the lucky side with he weather and wind this time. On top of that, our car broke down on the Italian motorway in eh middle of a tunnel. We rolled unbelievable 2.8 km the slightly downhill motorway and...
We have received our new photography for our living room. The photography shows an abandoned car in the middle of nowhere in the desert of Arizona. The photography is part of Peter Püntener's "The End of the Road" series. The series is made up of several hundred...
Adobe Photoshop comes with a great feature for adaptive wide angle correction. I used in in our living room for creating a wide angle image consisting of three individual wide angle images. The final result: Wide angle corrected from the following merged image: The...
After months of persuasion, I finally talked a fearless bunch of IBMers into kite surfing! We spent a great weekend at Lago di Como and the three guys took a two day course. They all turned out to be quite talented and – who knows – might continue to get...
First weekend this year on Lake Como. Great conditions and great company - men only with Thom, Flavian and Markus. Superb wind on Saturday, stron 12m fully powered, 4 hour session! Thom's jumps are getting higher and higher, Flavian ripping with the Bandit and Markus...
Cape Verde end of April was just amazing again. 100% wind from the 15 day we were there, mostly on 9m and 12m kites. We did the wave clinic sessions with Mitu Monteiro and kitet in small waves. When it got big at Punta Preta, we still watched from the shore - maybe...
Weekend trip to Monforte D'Alba to by wine at the Conterno Fantino in the heart of the Barolo area.
Alexandra's first official Tango show-event.....
Awesome long skiing weekend in Zermatt with Chris and Fi! Great snow conditions and perfect weather. Zermatt is just an amazing place. The charming car-free town and incredible view form the mountain tops make it unforgettable.
Amazing day on January 1st on Laax!