sunday windy sunday.....

Sunday, a real day of sun today. Sunday also means the "domingeros" like the Sunday local people are called, invade the Beaches with their huge freezers and tons of alcohol to enjoy their day. For us it just means a bigger crowd to watch some nice Windsurf Action. Even if the wind has been a bit shaky it was well enough for the 5,4 Duke and the 95 liter Freewave and some new freestyle moves. Though the people seemed to be more intersted in their Freezers, but it´s nice to see some of them their first Windsurfing experiences... Now we´re looking forward to another windy week before we say Bienvenidos Domingeros again...

wellknown faces are back....

After a month back at home in Playa El Yaque, many many windy days, little sunburns, quite some work and tons of paperwork I started wondering what might have happened to all the wellknown faces in El Yaque, the people who came here for many years, over and over again. I had no answer but i knew it is too quiet indeed in the small Fisher Village, at least until I had to go to the Airport yesterday and saw many of those faces also arriving, very nice i thought and good to see that after one, two not so good years people still trust in their winterplace and they are right, after all the work which has been done that Windsurfer Paradise just deserved another chnace and is on a very good way now. In Venezuela it just takes a little longer sometimes, but better late than never...

I´m feeling good again in El Yaque, at the Beach and on the water, and there I´ve been much more than expected at this time of the year. The wind blows and blows and I finally got the chance to train some more Freestyle and catch one or the other Move...... Feels really good and brings Motivation back into my bones, brain and muscles....

now i know why........

What has it been a couple of years ago that brought me to this small Fishervillage at the Island of Margarita in the southern Caribbean Sea ? the past two years I was wondering more and more and almost really forgot the reason. Now, sitting at a Beach Terass at my second home, watching the whitecaps on the water, the Palmtrees bending and the Windsurfers flying over the water i do remember. The first two three years when I arrived to this Windsurfers Community it´s been windy almost every single day, sometimes we had to skip a couple of windsurf days because the body just couldn´t do it anymore.... and now, it all looks the same. Windy already in the early morning and all day long, so yesterday was already my first day that I decided to stay at the Beach and only watch windsurfing.... to be able practising some new Moves today.... it´s good to be back !!!

One week later...

Now it´s already one week that I arrived back in El Yaque, so I got a full week of wind, almost at least, beautiful waether, some nights out in the Shopping Center Sambil, a nice BBQ at home and a small surf session.... so far so good, couldn´t have wished more for the start of the Season, also the first clients are arriving from all over europe to enjoy the freshly built Posadas or just reconstructed Hotels..... A lot of things have been done during the Summer to male the small Village more attractive and so far everything seems to work out well and the wind also plays game. Only to the temperature I haven´t been adapted very well until now. It´s very dry and hot at the moment. What is perfect for the wind is not really the best for the Island, which is much dryer tha usually and also our freshly planted Trees and Flowers in our graden could need a bit of water sometimes. The past two days I went walking around a bit and checked the new Hotels and Posadas to see the changes to the last season and how´s everything in the Posadas I got on my Travel Website, and I was pretty impressed.. it´s been all Beautiful with nice Gardens and super clean, plus a new Restaurant and Sushi Bar...... Yaque is growing.....

Day Five at Margarita….

It´s already four full days that I am back at the Island of Margarita, in El Yaque. Actually it is really nice to see how much people worked here through the summer to make the small Fishervillage look better and better. New Bars, reconstructed Hotels, more Beach and Palm Trees. And on Top, it´s been windy for a long long time now, and so also in my first days. Four days in El Yaque this year also meant four days of Windsurfing with my new North Duke 5,4 and ICE 5,0 Sails and the Fanatic Freewave 95 fully powered up. Still there are no people around so we can enjoy the huge Playground for Freestyle, Slalom and Jumps. We´ll see when the season really gets started and more Windsurfers arrive at the most southern Caribbean Island.

the real real last day in germany.....

Since some time I´ve been waiting already to finally leave the cold and rainy weather in Germany, spending my time running, biking, skating and in front of my Desktop, just trying to not get sick at all..... after some difficulties with the flights teh time finally has come and I´ll be at my new home very soon and hope the wind, which has blown over and through El Yaque during the past four months, will stay and provide us with some funny days on the water.. The fact that it might be another El Nino Season would be great if true.. El Nino is always good for highwinds without any breaks.... so after one , two not so great Seasons we would be more than happy about it..... Soon I´ll provide you with all latest El Yaque News in www.tom-brendt.de and with images galeries in Tom Brendt Foto where I´m jsut uploading the latest Germany Images before getting my Bags on and into the car and run !!!!

Back to the Roots....

Couple of days before leaving cold and now also rainy and colourful Germany, finally I managed to go back in time... back to the Roots when I was travelling Germany as Ice Hockey Referee in the DEL. So I got the Chance to see THE Derby between the two big Teams Düsseldorf and Cologne. It was my second time in the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, the first time I was a little disappointed with the Stadium half full and remembering the old Brehmstrasse Stadium with his unique atmosphere. This time the Dome was full as well and also the creativity of the Düsseldorf Supporters was back, of course when it´s against their worse enemy of Cologne... It was nice this time and great to be close to the frozen water.. Hopefully I get the chance more often next year.... And now it´s really time to pack and fly into te sun for the winter..... lovely !!!