Polynesian around the world

New blog & website

2010-04-02T00:20:00.000-07:00

Hi I just created a new blog where you can see my latest photo session best's...www.poemaduprelphotography.blogspot.comTake care Poema

Home sweet home

2010-03-28T20:09:00.000-07:00

We arrived safe in Moorea, a paradise to my eyes. I would like to thank you for following us around the world and sharing our experience. Thanks to all of my friends and family for helping us living our dreams, to all of my subscribers (17 !!!! YEAH!!!!!!!).If you ever come by the island of Moorea, here is our contact poemaintahiti@gmail.com

Noah teaching surf in Cocoa Beach

2010-03-11T10:38:00.001-08:00

A picture of Noah, his dad Ran (in red) and Tim Timmy and Ellie from Wisconsin. They came to visit us for the day and Noah got to teach the kids surfing.... it was literally one of the coldest day here and I was happy to not be in the water.... The kids had a blast and will come back in summer time for more surfing !!!!!!!

Top 20 on Surfline

2010-03-10T06:24:00.000-08:00

Noah's picture from South Africa is in the top 20 of the best picture of february in Surfline. Check it out and vote for us, photo number 4....http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/surfline-photo-challenge-vote-on-the-top-20-user-submitted-photos-of-the-month_41598/

Manatee waiting for warmer weather... like me !

2010-02-21T14:43:00.000-08:00

Manatee waiting for warmer weather... like me ! They live up to 60 years and are herbivorous. They are gentle and slow-moving animals, spending most of their time eating, resting, and traveling. I told you ! they are just like me, I must have been a Manatee in another life... They migrate to Florida in winter time. This year have been one of the coldest year and a lot of them died of cold stress

2010-02-13T16:15:00.000-08:00

Surf in Melbourne Beach, Florida Wall painting in Melbourne Beach

2010-02-03T18:04:00.000-08:00

Hello from Florida... Bisou

Merry Christmas.... from Germany

2009-12-25T07:34:00.000-08:00

We spent three weeks in Morocco and Noah really enjoyed his time there. It was a little hard for me as a very smiling girl, guys tend to think that I was trying to hit on them all the time. Beside the fact that you feel like a money machine to them, it is a very nice country to visit. It really made me realize how rare free generosity is. I tend to trust people very easy and I was many time

News from Portugal

2009-11-23T11:23:00.000-08:00

HiJust to let you know that we are still alive, I haven't been a very good blogger lately.... We are in Portugal, back on the road and on the beaches waiting for the waves... We are in Ericeira, trying some local food (more than trying actually), delicious cheese and 7 euros gargantuous buffet.... I posted the pictures of our trip from Pisa to France, it's on Picasaweb and will be on the blog

2009-11-03T12:34:00.000-08:00

Hi no news since a long time, sorry I'm not very good at updating our blog frequently. I'm in Marseille since two days now. I stopped my surf trip for now to work on a luxury yacht named Ilona. I'm doing house keeping work for two weeks, basic cleaning job, got to be on repeat Mode for 2 weeks but good pay. It's a bit funny to work after such long holiday. The crew is really nice and the boat is

2009-10-08T13:09:00.000-07:00

We left Croatia 3 days ago and drove thru Montenegro and Albania to reach Greece. We are loving the drive and enjoying the warm water, very nice people, great food and beautiful scenery... Check the new photos on the right column,Take care, Poema

News from Croatia

2009-10-02T02:10:00.000-07:00

We started our Europeen road trip and we are in Croatia now waiting for an insurance paper to cross Montenegro's border. We also encountered some car problems, alternator to fix, the gas pump, the water pump, and yesterday the clutch... hoo! We've been lucky as we found everything we needed for the car here in the area. We also made friends, Dario and his family. He is our gas pump mechanic and

Forest castle and family in Germany

2009-09-13T03:11:00.000-07:00

Great news !!!! We have found and bought our van for the Europe tour. It's a white Volkswagen, with a bed and really nice interior design, white flowers over red walls and green carpet. I don't know about having that kind of desing in my house in Moorea but in our Europeen camping-car it's pretty cool. We named her Matira and open a bottle of champagne to wish her a long life.Since we arrived, we

Abu Dhabi

2009-09-04T07:20:00.000-07:00

Escale de 24h a Abu Dhabi, capitale des Emirats Arabes Unis, avec un peu plus de 700 000 habitant, est une ville en pleine expansion. Partout des grues montent des tours de verres, aux formes les plus excentriques, transformant des dunes en immeubles et palaces hi-tech. La ville entiere est en pleine transformation, les sites de construction se suivent, les plages artificielles aménagées sur fond

Jbay life

2009-08-24T03:17:00.000-07:00

J-bay, Dreamland....A month has gone by for us in J-bay...We met Kim and Todd, the newly world tourer from Oahu : our closest friends and neighbors since Indonesia for three weeks. Everyday, Kim and I were motivating ourself to surf cold water, we bought sheep boots to keep our island girl feet warm. Noah found a meal/desert-mate in Todd and they shared many late night apple crumbles and

Where we've been... 6 months later

2009-08-09T09:49:00.000-07:00

India-South Africa via Abu Dhabi

2009-08-05T06:08:00.001-07:00

We flew out of India more happy than ever. We were very ready to leave the chaotic country. The flight was pleasant and 3 hours later we landed in Abu Dhabi. A transit of 15 hours... spent in the airport. We used free internet, slept on the nice clean carpet, ate sandwiches and enjoyed the clean atmosphere.... Women in black outfit were coming and going while men were usually wearing white

Jaisalmer-Shimla by train

2009-07-30T06:19:00.000-07:00

After spending such a good time with our Jaipur guest house family, we found it hard to leave. We arrived on Jaisalmer without any reservation. The touts there were pretty hungry with the low season, any tourist is assaulted at the train station. I never got so surrounded, at a point that Noah started to yell at them. We walk out of the train area to escape from the touts and went on the road. It

Delhi-Jaipur by train

2009-07-24T03:02:00.000-07:00

17th of july After hanging out in Delhi(16 millions people) for the day and walking around the bazar area, we left 2/3 of our luggage at a guest house situated in front of our first hostel the Smyle Inn. We crossed the bazar crowd, a mix of people, animal and dust to get to the New Delhi railway station. More than a hundred of people were sitting on the floor waiting for

India !

2009-07-16T23:00:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, 15th of july 2009We got on the plane in Bangkok at 9 am and landed in Singapore after a 2 hours spent in a very comfortable plane... Singapore is probably the cleanest city in the . The airport is at the image of the town, a huge shopping center where you can enjoy yourself, free cinema and wireless internet (in the whole town too), showers, massage hair dresser and bed for those who

Nana Bangkok

2009-07-14T09:42:00.000-07:00

Last day in Bangkok... tomorrow we will fly to Singapore to catch our flight to India, Delhi. Bangkok trapped me and we stayed here longer than I thought I would. We found a very comfortable and affordable hotel here and we felt tired after our touristy trip to Cambodia. Bangkok is a big and busy city where the king and the queen face are in every corner... It's kind of brain washing and I

"Suostey" Cambodia

2009-07-08T05:00:00.000-07:00

We left busy touristy Bangkok by bus to see one of the wonder of the world, Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia. We rode the bus full of tourist for 8 hours cross a chaotic border where tourist are lining to get into the country of the Cambodian Khmer heritage. Buses, wooden wheel cart, casino shuttles and taxi are driving in every directions. The poor cambodian pushes his wheel cart on a dusty road

Welcome to Thailand

2009-07-06T06:27:00.000-07:00

We left Kota Bharu yesterday and took a taxi to the border. We filled our papers and crossed the bridge to go thru Thailand customs. Then a nice local muslim gave us a ride to the train station with his three wheels home made motor bike. At the entrance of the train station some army guys with guns were filtering the crowd and were patroling in the station... I was wondering why...We had to wait

In Malaysia

2009-07-03T09:25:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody,I haven't been a very good blogger since Indonesia and I apologize for not writing anything since then. I will try to summarize our Indonesian trip later... We left Singapore today and rode the train for 16 hours to reach Malaysia border town to Thailand, Noah's first train ride !!! We went thru Singapore and crossed the bridge to Malaysia. We paid in total 29 USD for today's trip.We

Bali

2009-05-07T21:51:00.000-07:00

Notre periple a Bali-Lombok et JavaBisouPoema

Bye Bye Australia

2009-04-28T08:28:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody,We are flying out tomorrow to Indonesia. We sold our car at the last minute to some very nice Tongans. We are really happy about it because it goes to polynesians and I really liked them. Their will be 4 of them sleeping in the car when they go to work out of Perth to pick fruits. We spent the afternoon with Bunny, we are so much the same, open hearts and happy, it gave me more

Western Australia

2009-04-18T01:49:00.000-07:00

Yallingup, 17th of April 2009 It’s been a while since I haven’t wrote anything about our trip around the world. We are in Yallingup, Western Australia since 2 weeks. We stayed in Perth the first night we got in WA to get our India visa. Perth is built around the water. It is a very nice artsy city where buildings are growing faster than weeds, sculptures are left on the

Western Australia

2009-03-26T05:48:00.001-07:00

Nous sommes arrivés a Margaret River depuis deux jours maintenant. Nous avons beaucoup roulé ses derniers temps et le coin semble parfait pour nous poser et digerer notre "road trip". Cela fait presque deux mois que nous avons attéri en Australie et deux semaines que nous avons quitté Byron Bay. Le voyage vers Uluru était tres spécial, a faire si vous avez l'occasion, n'oubliez pas vos chapeau

+ photos

2009-03-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, coucou tout le mondeJe n'ai pas trop le temps d'écrire en ce moment mais j'ai posté quelques photos avec des sous-titres (cliquez sur la photo pour voir les sous-titres). J'actualise le plus souvent la carte pour que vous puissiez nous suivre. A bientotI don't have time to write nowadays but I posted some new pictures with subtitles (you have to click on the photo to see the

From North to south...

2009-03-14T03:12:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I posted some new pictures of our trip from Eastern Australia, all the way up to Noosa and down to Torquay where you can find very famous point breaks like Bells beach. We are staying in that area for the week end swell and then drive toward the west. I miss the east coast tropical weather. It was 16C here today and I spend almost the whole day under my blanket. I hope it will get

2009-03-06T20:02:00.000-08:00

Vendredi 6 marsPetite virée avec Koki et Deborah de Los Angeles a Mullumbimby. C'est une petite ville hippie, l'Australie c'est tres hippie. Il y a un super magasin d'alimentation générale bio (Santos) et des boutiques de fringues super cool et pas trop chers (Closet). 7pm: nous empruntons une route pommée pour aller au concert d'un groupe australien "Tijuana Cartel". L'ambiance était tres

2009-03-04T02:02:00.000-08:00

Lundi 2 marsNous quittons Coolangatta tard dans la matiné et la chaleur nous rattrape vite. La traffic, c'est vraiment pas notre truc, plus de 20 voitures et ca y est on stresse. On est trop lent pour les Ausraliens et beaucoup expriment leur frustration par des gestes tres explicites... Passage dans la ville nommée "Surfer Paradise"... c'est plutot l'enfer pour nous, des immeubles partout, un

2009-03-01T12:55:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody, coucou tout le mondeI added some picture to "Australia part 1". Take a look, also for those who didn't know, you can see the pictures captions by clicking on the album. Enjoy !Je viens d'ajouter quelques photos a notre album "Australia Part 1". Pour ceux qui ne le savait pas, vous pouvez voir les "titres" des photos en cliquant sur l'album.BisouPoema

Sunshine state, here we are

2009-02-25T12:57:00.000-08:00

Sunshine state, here we are ! We had to come to Queensland to see the Australian blue sky... we did it ! We've been in Coolangatta for more than a week now, waiting for the perfect long wave to come back. We arrived last wednesday and we had super conditions, soo good that we didn't have the time to take pictures, too exicited about surfing Snapper rock Rainbow bay & Greenmount. That wave is

Vive Sunshine state

2009-02-23T14:15:00.000-08:00

Coolangatta, 24 février 2009Ca y est !!!! Nous avons vu le ciel bleu d'Australie et surfé de superbes vagues, il fallait juste passer la frontiere du Queensland, Sunshine state !!! Il fait chaud, beau, la mer est bleue turquoise et prendre sa douche froide est un vrai plaisir !!! Wahou! Nous sommes a Coolangatta une ville sympathique a la frontiere du Queensland et du New South Wales. Coolangatta

Australie, along the East coast

2009-02-20T14:13:00.000-08:00

Je viens de poster quelques photos d'Australie,I posted some pictures from Australia,I'll be back later for more news, BisousPoema

Hitting the road... sur la route vers Byron Bay

2009-02-15T02:55:00.000-08:00

We finally left Dee Why after getting our car ready for 3 days, it's not that easy especially when you want to get the cheapest. We highly recommend Salvation Army store and Vinnies, really nice and cheap used stuff (the best matress I ever had for only 95 AUD, cleaned of course). Then go to Bunnings for any hardware, it's the cheapest if you take time to look around the store, they have hidden

News from Kangaroo land

2009-02-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

We are in Australia since 5 days now. We spent 3 days looking for the van we dreamed of and we finaly got it, a Toyota Hiace Commuter. Plenty of room, good engine and tinted windows to be more "incogito". So far, we liked it here. The streets in Sydney are really busy but they look really good with Europeen style buildings and trees all along them. I also really like the Tipanie trees (plumeria)

Kangourou land

2009-02-10T11:55:00.000-08:00

IaoranaNous sommes en Australie, a Sydney depuis deux jours. La recherche d'un van pour notre sejour de trois mois n'est pas aussi facile que je le pensais. Deux jours entiers a chercher notre carosse de Cendrillon, mais toujours rien. La ville est trés grande par rapport a Auckland, pas comparable a vrai dire. On ne s'attendait pas non plus a ce que le cout de la vie soit aussi cher, presque

2009-02-07T17:53:00.000-08:00

Kiaora J'ai ajouté quelques photos de Raglan prise lors de notre seconde visite et aussi celle de Waitangi Day.I added some pictures of Raglan I capture when we went there for the second time and the one's from Waitangi day.Enjoy,Poema

Aotearoa, here we are

2009-02-01T21:49:00.000-08:00

We have been in New-Zealand for 2& 1/2 weeks now, it's a very beautiful and interresting country. It's Noah's first time here and my 3rd. The purpose of our trip was to visit our friends Piripi and Michelle and be at their wedding. We arrived on the 19th (+23h to Tahiti) and Michelle picked us up at the airport. We drove to Tauranga where Piripi was waiting for us. He is a crew member on the

Kiaora Aotearoa

2009-01-30T12:58:00.000-08:00

Cela fait bientot deux semaines que nous visitons la Nouvelle-Zélande. J'ai eu la chance de vivre l'approche et l'aterrissage du cockpit, invitée par Sandrine Turquem, notre célebre et charmante pilote polynésienne. Une vue 180 degres, rien de mieux...Le but de notre escale maorie était le mariage de nos amis Michelle et Piripi, elle est maori, lui métis. Sur notre chemin vers Gisborne ou le

2008-12-18T09:53:00.000-08:00

Mon départ pour Rapa est prévu pour demain. Je n'aurais certainement pas accès à internet de là-bas mais je vous raconterais mes aventures à mon retour, je vous souhaite à tous de très bonnes fêtes et à l'année prochaine, My departure to Rapa is planned for tomorrow. I problably won't have any internet acces from there, but I will tell you everything when I get back, I wish you an early merry

Un peu plus à notre sujet...

2008-12-12T23:36:00.000-08:00

Voici un petit résumé à notre sujet qui complétera un peu notre profil.... Nous sommes deux surfeurs passionnés et nous avons, comme vous avez pu le remarquer, décidé de parcourir le monde avec nos planches sous le bras. Noah est originaire de Floride et on pourrait dire qu'il surfe depuis sa naissance. La recherche de la vague parfaite l'a amené à vivre à Hawaii pendant dix ans et à visiter la

Notre itinéraire

2008-11-27T15:15:00.001-08:00

Voici notre itinéraire tour du monde, la réalisation de notre rêve. Nous avons prévu un surf trip d'un an mais qui vivra verra... et qui voudra viendra... Here is our itinerary, our dream coming true. We planned a one year surf trip but we don't know what life will bring... to whoever want to join us around... Rapa (Australes French Polynesia) 20 dec 08-11 jan 09Nouvelle Zélande 18jan-9