Kite School

Trip Start May 31, 2010

Trip End Jun 24, 2010

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Flag of Dominican Republic Cabarete, Dominican Republic
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Finally we had the opportunity to experience the breakfast buffet at our hotel, it was really good. Too bad that we chose to sit closest to the beach front, so we ended up as an outpost for all bizniz vendors at the beach.
Then I felt it was time to sign up for the kite school just beside our hotel, "Club Nathalie Simon" they seemed to be friendly, I really hope they are good...

We also chose to prolong our stay three more days, but it resulted in that we had to change our room. It almost felt like a full time job because of the heat and humidity. Then I tried to relax before my first kite lesson. I got a French kite teacher he was good and he could speak English but best of all he seemed to believe a lot more in my ability than I did/:)

After swallowing a few liters of water and trying some water starts I went away in an incredible speed

. I was finally kite surfing for real at least for a short time. But I was totally exhausted after two hours practice. After this intense session I tried to relax with an ice coffee and a few puffs on a cigar just for fun (my travel mate was trying to raise his nicotine levels, again).
After relaxing for a while on our balcony I realized that we had an almond tree just outside with fresh almonds. I could even reach out and touch them, it was so cool to see the "real" thing instead of the dry nuts we see in Sweden during Xmas time.

I ended the day on a beach chair watching the stars in the sky and feeling "philosophical" it was nice to have some alone time except for a few mosquito's.

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