One late night in October 2009, I sign up with HelpX (http://www.helpx.net/index.asp) and decided to go to France.
Hey, this is for pre-college kids (you might say)! Twenty years old or something but, I have a dream... I want to live a different life, I want to see if living in the French countryside would be a good idea for me and my family. The only way to do this on the budget is to work as a "helper", with a "host", aka French farmer or any expat fruitcake that does the same thing, as I want to do, in the future.
Here I am, on a beautiful day of November 2009, at the railroad station in Caen, Normandy, France (it's pronounced C-a-a-n).
I just hoped into a right-hand-steering-wheel Ford Ranger truck. It was driven by my host, an English dude that talked to me in an incomprehensible (to my ear) South-London accent.
He drove me to his home and in 45 minutes, a new world opened! I met his wife, his kids, his dogs, his sheep, chickens, ducks, turkeys, etc. I touched and tasted unbelievable foods and wines and we insulated a gigantic attic that would be part of a self-catering-gite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gîte
Three weeks of bliss, rain, great company, getting to know about Frace as a country from the perspective of an English family.
Here is their little piece of heaven: http://eco-gites.blogspot.com/
One day, when the rain stopped... did I mentioned that it rains there? I was treated with a visit to Bayeux.
For those that skipped world history, it was one place where some Germans gave up their fight in WW II and one beautiful medieval town, has been spared by the Allied Forces. With it, came the history of a 1000 year old tapestry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry).
This is the cathedral of Bayeux. In my opinion, the tapestry was a... medieval propaganda tool. There is a museum dedicated to this 70 meters tapestry/embroidery but about 1000 years ago, it was wrapped around the inside walls of this cathedral.
Just follow the wiki link for informations.
Since this is my first post, I will change in the future the format of this blog. I will probably come up with a different format and title. I don't know... I am new at this thing and as I said, sick and tired of this corporate infused society.
I want to change my life and this is my journal of this journey.
