A Week to Go / Workaway Diaries
And I don’t feel ready. When we leave the castle on the 1st of May, it will be exactly 3 months since our arrival. Yes, we came for three weeks of a Workaway experience (our first!) and instead submerged ourselves in the big Unknown, merged with this bonkers and
Scandalous Shorts Season / Workaway Diaries
> The constant facade of order hides the wilderness that is craving to seep out and teach us that life wasn't created to be what we think it is... we must experience the wilderness to be taught what cannot be otherwise known. —Serene Jones It's hard
Castle Snapshots / Workaway Diaries
> "Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else." - Joe Abercrombie A few snapshots from our fourth week at the castle. The sun is back,
Babi Škorpíková
> “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ― Maya Angelou All brambles gone. They swallowed hours upon hours of furious clipping and ripping & drying on the sun these last few days; mountains of tangled vines and
Simplifying / Workaway Diaries
> “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” –– Henry David Thoreau Well apparently you can pluck a boy out of a countryside (I moved from bumfucknowhere to London and spent a
Snail Gate / Workaway Diaries
> “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb We built a wall! Each day, we sleep longer than ever before. My work has only always been purely intellectual up to this point...and the only movement it required was my fingers running
First Days / Workaway Diaries
> Back in the nursery school, before being served our first reality checks, we kids agreed that the absolute worst thing about life was pooping in the cold. I think I don’t need to tell you - that’s the only way you’ll ever know here at the
Castle Workaway Diaries - Arrival
> “Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.” - Deepak Chopra ..and we did it! Took us a few months of trying to cut ties with comfort and ego-based fears of discomfort, but finally put ourselves back
Not Our Sofa
Last week before we hit the road again. 19/01 Quite possibly (and once again) the worst time to do so, but we’ve already over-stated our welcome here in Poitiers, France by about eight months...Yes, we’ve been here for exactly eight months. In December 2019, me and
Before the Year Was Over
we made it home. As my mum noted the other day: “There’s absolutely no one in this world who remained untouched by this bullshit covid storyline...Except for your grandma.” Our grandma has been in a voluntary self-isolation for the past 16 years, rarely ditching her nightgown or moving
On the Road.
> "You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic. Illusion born of disillusion." S.Plath I think by now, we can all agree that lying on internet is a part of our new normal. Hopefully the Generation Z will go through life
Le Clain.
Poitiers on the Sunday afternoon is a total ghost town. All the shops are either closed or close at 1pm, so I'm dragging myself all the way to the train station where I might get lucky according to Google Maps. Just the sounds of cockerels (which are familiar