2025 was the year of Martina’s 50 birthday and also our 25th wedding anniversary. We had wanted to do something special but couldn’t decide on what. Going to Japan was a strong contender, but so was a relaxing beach holiday.

In the end we did neither and decided to go back to Lembeh for diving – or rather back to the Lembeh Resort for diving.

We only went for 7 days plus two travel days but still managed to have a relaxing holiday.

Lembeh Resort is such a nice place to stay and the staff actually remembered us from last year. We even got one of our dive guides from last year and could stay in the same cottage.

This time round the new Spa building was open – and it is a really nice place, very zen.

Photo highlights are as always in our galleries.

When we moved into the house, the garden was partially new (fence, astroturf, elevated back) and partially still overgrown wilderness (bottlebrush, palm and bougainvillea competing with weeds). For about a year we didn’t change much and grew tomatoes and herbs in pots spread out everywhere. But eventually we came up with a plan to transform … Continue reading →