Molat, Veli Iz and the search for Grill Papa

Finally I have a free internet connection! We arrived in Mali Losinj on Saturday. Unfortunately it was too late to get my mobile internet account recharged, so I had no internet access for three long days! On Sunday we sailed down to Molat where I planned to have a good dinner at Grill Papa. But what happened to him? No Grill Papa - no dinner! We cooked noodles instead... but the sunset was beautiful as you can see above ;)
Yesterday we sailed further down the islands to Veli Iz. This small town has a really good marina with everything you can wish for as a sailor including free internet! I can finally answer my emails, recharge the yacht's batteries and have a shower...

We'll stay here till tomorrow. All this free stuff, good restaurants and nice people must be enjoyed as long as possible ;)
A propos nice people. They're not only nice, they're also pretty chatty when it comes to navigationally important topics like the weather! Yesterday they apparently thought the world would collapse within the next few hours. The doomsday scenario was heavily discussed...with thunderstorms and everything you need for a good world's end party. Of course nothing happened...

Austria - Flachau

I'm finally on my way back to Croatia! Stopped in Flachau for the night. The view out of the window of my hotel room is just great! The whole hotel is great. Check it out at www.wieseneck.at ! Five minutes and I'm on the road again...

See ya

Cold and grey...

... seems Germany to me these days, although the weather is partly sunny but compared to Croatia... yes, it's definitely cold and grey!
Hard to believe that it's only a week since I came back. To me it feels like a month. I totally miss Rovinj and count the days till I'll be back in Cro (soooo looking forward to it!) for sailing. Bought a new camera last week so I can finally put up some new sailing videos on my YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/TheSkipperGirl)!
My arrival in Dortmund wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. Came home just to find out that I have no home any more. I don't really care 'bout that 'cause I never planned on staying longer than two weeks anyway. After my sailing trip in Croatia I'll work as an instructor at Hanseatische Yachtschule again (check them out at www.dhh.de/hys_portrait.html) till season ends. What I'm gonna do afterwards I still don't know. I had a few crazy ideas but haven't worked out any plans regarding those ideas as they popped up in my mind while my brain sailed the cocktail seas, but considering that I use to have my best ideas when I'm drunk, that might be worth a second thought.
A few weeks ago I was out at this restaurant 'Pastrik' (if you should ever visit Rovinj you just have to go there: www.pastrik.hr) and met this man with the yacht charter company (www.charter-rovinj.com). He told me something 'bout open up my own charter company. Somehow this idea stayed somewhere in a corner of my mind (even if (or even because) I had way to much sparkling wine/warm vodka/cuba libre/pelinkovac this night and woke up on a boat at the marina, completely not knowing what exactly happened the night).
If I would wanna open up my own company, what would I need? Except the idea... I have nothing... In fact, I'm just a dreamer with an idea thousands of people had before... what do I need to make this idea become reality... profitable reality...?
Okay...enough for now! My last bottle of good Croatian wine is empty... I should sleep... but hey, feel free to tell me if my idea may be worth a third thought ;)

xoxo --Anni

Dreamin' big...

...is a good thing! It feels good. That may be the biggest problem about dreaming big: it feels too good to be real.
Somewhere in the past I lost my ability to dream big, 'cause too many people told me all the things I can't do. The pessimistic world totally got me. The result was simple: I was depressed... I used to be a happy, outgoing person before. What happened to this person?
I thought of the time I tried to follow my dreams, how good it felt and how adventurous it was, how much I liked it and what it made of me. It never brought me financial security and as this is very important to most of us, everyone told me that those times are nothing worth. Would you agree?
I don't.

Trying to swim with the flow, to just struggle for financial freedom didn't satisfy me. I felt as if I'd lost something. Something important. And then I realized that this important thing was me. I lost myself and I ran away from the people, from this life that stole it from me, 'cause they made me a totally different person. They made me to someone I didn't wanna be. Someone without ideals, without dreams, someone who didn't have a permission to have dreams. Knowing that you are not allowed to dream - I believe - will kill you sooner or later.

By the time I decided to go to Croatia - without a plan, without money, without a valid work contract, only with the will to be a sailing instructor there - this changed. I dream again. Even if I got fired (yes, I got fired! And I'm more then happy about that!) Right now I'm on my way back to Germany. Happy that I don't need to work for this ... nice Austrian guy any more, but sad that I had to leave Rovinj. This city is sooooo damn beautiful! One should definitely visit it!
For me I know that I'll come back there some day and maybe next time I have a plan, money and a new dream (circumnavigating the world is still on top of the list^^)! With this in mind I'm not too sad any more. And hey, Hanseatische Yachtschule will have me back again for now ;)