...the island.

Hey, thank you so much for praying everybody! We had a good week on the island and it was so good to know people are thinking of us and praying... We got all sorts of suggestions where we should come to as well :-). I appreciate that...
And really, I was so happy about our little hide-away thing - compared to India Thailand's beaches are very "developed", so I was kind of doubting we would find a little quiet spot for us - in my heart I was wishing for something like Gokarna again, simple huts, not too many people and a nice sort of people too, more the backpacker style type of people... And here we go, Ko Phayam - a three hour ferry ride from Ranong on the Andaman coast of Thailand is pretty close to that. The description on a poster said "like Ko Samui in the eighties" so we didn't know what to expect - strange haircuts and purple bikinis? But it turned out really nicely. Here we are, this was our hut...

We shared it with some unbidden guests, apart from the regulars - mosquitos, geckos, ants - we had frogs jumping in our bathroom; they especially seemed to enjoy sitting on the taps, to make sure to maximize the surprise effect... One even decided to stay for the day.
One day we had a snake hiding behind the refuse bin - and that quite scared me I admit. It was a little one, thin but still long. After that we had two days when we wouldn't enter the hut without beating hysterically sticks on the floor... We got back to normal on day three though. After the snake I didn't mind the frogs anymore... And I was happy sleeping under a net!

Nice place, selling chai yen, the thai iced black tea with lots of sugary condensed milk...

What we came for... We spent our days reflecting what we felt we had learned during the last years and during the time travelling, we remembered what we thought God had put into our hearts, our dreams, ideas and his words. And we kind of tried to find our own words for all that in the process.
But we didn't put it together yet, we felt we would need the time to make up our minds separately and only in a second step put both our stuff together... So it's not done yet, but it feels already good -I realized once again that God is guiding us and why should he stop doing that now?? So the story is to be continued, maybe on another island :-).