Bonjour all!
I am currently writing you, alive and well traveled, from the computer at my aunt and uncle's house in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. We apologize for our lack of recent postings and must unconvincingly blame it on busy days, a dying travel computer and expensive internet connections.When we left off we had just begun a great week at Old Chapel Farm, and we both had trouble leaving in the end. I still find myself missing my spidery loft bed and am oddly comforted by the earthy/manure/grass smell that lingers on my work boots...weird I know. We finished out our week by helping prepare for the exhibition that Kevin had in the Old Chapel, a showing of his stone carvings and handmade baskets by another artist. We also went bracken beating (picture a line of wwoofers marching through a prairie swinging long sticks samurai style at ferns), spent a Sunday evening at a local pub listening to traditional welsh music on various drums and stringed instruments, a rusty nail went through my boot (all healed now, Moms) and Nathan helped in the construction of a well built "muck" shed aka shit shed. During our time we got close with our garden and a few other wwoofers and cherished our dinners around the old table eating great food from the farm with everyone and drinking homemade elderflower wine. I also had a sad goodbye with my little lamb, don't worry, more pictures to come....
After a teary goodbye we were on our way back to London on a very late, though cheap train that happened to get quite delayed and thus lead us to our hostel around 4am, just in time to see the summer sun rise.... We revisited the British capital to attend a show in Hyde park and saw Mumford and Sons, one of our favorite bands, play in the same lineup as Arcade Fire and Beirut. Here, we had our final lesson in British weather management when we planned using the "SUNNY" forecast for the day and, having not brought our rain coats along, got poured on for about half an hour during the first band. No complaints though, it was definitely a really amazing show overall and we're glad to have returned and spent so much time on that beautiful, though expensive island.
Due to scheduling mishaps we cut our time in Amsterdam in half, and after only having 24 hours there are definitely planning on returning. After a spin around the Van Gogh museum, a night out and very few hours of sleep in Tulip land and a we took an early six hour train ride to Luxembourg where we were thankfully met by my uncle Rick and cousin William at the station. Let me tell you that after hopping off in entirely unfamiliar cities up until this point, it was a great relief to be met by a familiar face and driven to our destination. Here in Luxembourg we've gotten to spend time with my three little cousins, went to a 4th of July expat celebration and enjoyed a tour of the city in my uncle's open air WWII jeep.
Among the multiple changes to our itinerary already in progress is our addition of another wwoof site in Italy, near Florence (!!) and an exchange of Greece for the Amalfi Italian Coast as a little break...we'll try to be better at posting from here on out, promise!
-Sarah
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