I might have to put a little note on the website to warn people that when they come to Voditsa, it might be really difficult to leave! So far this year I have had 10 volunteers or friends staying and 8 of them are now interested in buying a house and living here!
There is going to be a realy interesting little community in this village soon but my Bulgarian friends are puzzled by this! they cant see why we all want to leave our developed and income obsessed world in the UK for this basic life. But thats exactly waht the attraction is – its lovely here and we can do things that most of us cant afford to do in the UK- like having a field and 10 walnut trees and practising biodynamic gardening and using the resourses around to make things. It’s hard to explain sometimes why we reject the ‘easy’ life in the UK.
I have 4 volunteers here right now and talk about the Universe providing…. Max from Australia arrived on my doorstep and has reorganised my whole communications stuff – I now have a landline and I might even have the internet soon – he’s also going to help me with the website and he’s interested in staying around Popovo for a a while. Then Laura and Tom arrived just for a week and they’re painting the house – just when i thought it wasn’t going to happen cos 2 volunteers let me down. They are now looking at property in Voditsa. and Oliver arrived from England last week – he’s doing the weeding in the field – note that we now have weeds! it has been raining!!! Wonderful for the land – I have pumpkins, happy tomatoesand weds!
and before these volunteers, Jennie stayed for almost a month – she was great and guess what – she is also thinking about buying a place in Voditsa!
I’m so lucky that i’ve had such great volunteers staying with me and now they’ll all be neighbours.
I never have much time to write emails or letters when there are volunteers here – i get caught up in the energy and the work is getting done – so this is a short blog – lots has been happening but you’ll all have to wait.