Rehoboth – God has made a place for us… Genesis 26,22 A place full of laughter and joy: Rehoboth is a children’s home, early learning center, soon-to-be medical clinic and a lot more. It is a non-denominational ministry with a clear mission statement: “Transforming families and providing alternative futures for children in crisis based on...
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Around 2000 people and (judging by the sound) at least as many roosters – that’s the inhabitants of Pamilacan Island. Oh, and the obligatory amount of piggies, goats and cows. The island is about a kilometre in diameter, but still seems mostly empty. The scarcely shattered huts blend in nicely, and the fact that the goats provide a golfcourse-like grass...
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Since Manila was a bit too much of everything we were not interested in for us, we were happy to catch a flight down south after 2 nights. Literally everybody had recommended the island Palawan and especially El Nido to us – which made us not go there. Still a bit shocked from the ridiculously over-touristy southern Thailand (another place everybody said we...
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Our last stop in Australia was Sydney. It is the biggest city of this continent (I actually call it planet, because of its enormous size and the throughout relaxed and laid back mentality of the inhabitants… not that I would call them aliens, in the contrary: I think that humanity in general would do good to adapt a bit more of the Aussie chill mood). One thing we...
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Not that we feel even remotely close to the end of our lives, but that’s apparently what the Sunshine Coast actually is: “That’s where old people come to die”, so we were told. Well – a pretty smart choice, there’s no denying that. We took a train from Cabarita Beach to Brisbane, where we were picked up by whom we officially...
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We were looking forward to our time in Melbourne ever since we started our trip. To spend Christmas with the Boothby family was actually one of the very little fixed-points we had planned. Steve and Markus met about 15 years back in Switzerland, when Steve did an exchange year at school and their friendship lasted over all these years. Steve and his family live in...
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