Sabine Hellenbrandt. The German Tourist Who Came Back To New Zealand For More...

New Zealand is a country much loved and traveled by Europeans and German tourists especially. There seem to be hundreds of them here at any one time. I meet a lot of them and am delighted to be good friends with many.
The last time Sabine was here, she made headlines by falling many meters down a West Coast glacier in New Zealand's South Island and needing to be rescued. By a strange twist she had just been in Thailand where she learned Vepassana meditation which was a huge strength for her survival while she waited in much pain those many hours in the cold to be rescued. It was a very enlightening experience she told me when I saw her in the beautiful Far North recently. Sabine was on her way south to meet and celebrate her return with her rescuers, now her friends...