In the interum

We made it. June last I landed in Toulouse and a couple of weeks later managed to find CDG Airport in Paris to pick up my wife and dog. After that we stayed on a donkey farm near Chalabre for a while. A while later we moved to Limoux. Now in September we will move in to a house which we found, but not until we had traversed the entire countryside between the Montagne Noir and the Pyrenees north to south end the Corbieres and St.Girons east to west. Cambieure it will be. We have seen a lot lately. The landscape changes just about every mile and it is all beautiful. We spent most of our time in the Aude and some in the Ariège.

We will be as busy as the proverbial in the next few months to get our house in order. That includes all the paper work, business planning- and implementation etc. The idea is to establish a wood workshop as I had in New Zealand and a printing atelier for graphic art, all in combination with a chambre de hôte. We got a good three quarters of an acre garden to tidy up, in the house a lot of modifications and renovations and not to forget to set up a workshop and atelier in the 135 meters square barn at the back of the house.

We will work hard and hope to have the entire show up and running by 2009. In a few months time I hope to set out more in detail how it will fit all together and I will be ready to organise courses and have the workshop and atelier available for those who would like to spend some time in this part of the south of France and at the same time turn their hand at art, woodblock printing, etching and woodwork.

If you want to know how we spent the last few months follow this link http://wouterpamela.blogspot.com/ to a blog my wife has been posting.

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