Foolishness

Hello everyone!

I think you’ll recall that at the end of the last blog entry you were all promised an in depth account of our experiences with our new hosts, Hans and Jacqueline (two wild and crazy Dutch). We were greeted very warmly, and immediately set to work planting their permaculture garden, cutting straw, and digging out stones and rubble from around an old ruin so that we could rebuild a terrace and an old bread oven. We were served gourmet meals for dinner, and mostly bread for breakfast and lunch (two meals at which we continually shocked our hosts by eating what they saw as foreign and disgusting combinations, such as peanut butter and jam, or even worse, peanut butter and apples!). We learned how to smoke fish, went to an archaeology museum, tooks some nice walks, and read some great borrowed books about food and sustainable living. But of course, our European adventure wouldn’t be nearly as exciting to read about if it didn’t come with a few twists and turns, and so I can honestly tell you that we have already left their home in the Morvan, and are now sitting somewhere rather unexpected. However, seeing as its April Fool’s Day (even if it isn’t any longer by the time I am able to post this, I swear it’s April 1^st as I write), and I cannot resist the urge to be a little foolish, I am going to leave it up to you all to guess where we are!

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