When two giants occupy a tiny cottage with eye-catching pink shutters, surrounded by vivacious founts of enchantment, there’s bound to be some enthralling stories behind.
On this digital reflection of our French lives I write about the bewildered wonders that befell us when we chose to embrace a less demanding yet more challenging lifestyle, mainly by downsizing and keeping our choices and their ensued options as rudimentary as possible, swapping various rat-races for an everyday poetry that harks back to our past as much as to an optimistic future.
Were I to be a tree this is where my roots would be

When two giants occupy a tiny cottage with eye-catching pink shutters, surrounded by vivacious founts of enchantment, there’s bound to be some enthralling stories behind.
June 2020
Strong Is Good These Days
A proper new room with tons of prospects
Getting Rid Of The Disease
We grabbed on to everything that new life had to offer
Feast Day Of Saint Us
This beautiful catchphrase that spoke to me
If Something Is Putting You Off
Picking them green now that they are still in abundance
Life Turned Pink. Pink Is Beautiful.
It’s okay to splurge every now and then
Having a heart that dwells in activities
An important role in our sustenance
It’s no surprise that the harvest sizes accordingly
It will always be a little different
It’s full of living bacteria and yeasts
We’re hoping that will change
Eternal hunting grounds can never be that far away
It’s been a wonderful experience all along
Equally beautiful with striking white flowers
The gospel of fermented Sauerkraut
Inside the creation process of something beautiful
Protect the heart and keep one happy
On this digital reflection of our French lives I write about the bewildered wonders that befell us when we chose to embrace a less demanding yet more challenging lifestyle, mainly by downsizing and keeping our choices and their ensued options as rudimentary as possible, swapping various rat-races for an everyday poetry that harks back to our past as much as to an optimistic future.
Attempting to make our lives sustainable is more than a personal choice and has gradually lead to a multitude of decisions we have never even thought of before.
On this website we share what works for us, or woefully no longer works, obviously without claiming the same for you.
We hope that our journey towards a supplementary comprehensive celebration of nature’s beauty might just clear a pathway forward for you too, perhaps challenges a revealing reconsideration, or simply provides for an equally indispensable diversion.
Can we change the world through food? We believe we can and we support Slow Food, a global movement of local communities and activists across more than 160 countries. Together we defend cultural and biological diversity, promote food education and the transfer of traditional knowledge and skills.
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