Sunday, 20th September > You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. - A. Alda Below is an excerpt from my 'Virgo Season Workbook'
Yes, this is another Bune appreciation post. This won’t be a doom and gloom, woe is me type of post, because that’s just not how we operate, we are happy go lucky people even if our leg’s just been gnawed off by a shark (my worst nightmare)
Like, thirty eight degrees is a lot! I don’t want to be complaining, we’ve already been so lucky - the whole of 2021 has so far been one never-ending, deliciously golden, hipster vintage filter Lana Del Rey summer music video. I mean, we had 27 degrees in February,
As soon as you leave Sofia, you’ll find yourself surrounded by forest-covered mountains layered like an old-fashioned paper diorama. Slicing through them on snaking motorways feels like an excursion into pre-history, I’m just waiting for a long sauropod neck to pop-up through a seemingly impenetrable blanket of tree
Sunday 18/07 :: 2pm :: Slovakia, our 1st lunch on the road. Burgers & chicken strips I fried yesterday, plus mayo - probably the least sensible thing to consume on the road. We sit on a blanket behind a petrol station. I lay down in a shade of a single pine
Hey you guys! Finally a focused moment for a little update. I'm sitting on a patch of grass in front a totally abandoned railway station in French Pyrenees, close to the border with Spain. I'm waiting for a tumbleweed to roll by any minute now..it&
Toulouse to Corrèze, 01/05-05/05 First of May. Exactly three months after arriving at our first Workaway stay in Château de La Bataille, South of France, we’re back on the road. I looked forward to having a focused time to catch up on reading & journaling, podcasts &
There are two giant Japanese Camellia trees growing right next to the terrace adjacent to our bedroom. I never knew they could grow this tall. Their branches reach to the chateau’s roof level, heavy with lush crimson flowers. I like chilling here with my journal, letting the imagination run
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
> 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
> "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,
> “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