This may well be my last note from ‘Rivendale’ for some time. New adventures call. It’s long been a dream of mine to go overseas and live , to really absorb another culture and to make every day an adventure. The country is already my culture but I’ve never lived there- England. Why go there? I am already a citizen due to my Dad’s birthplace and I plan to make it my base to travel to all the places I’ve wanted to for a long time: Egypt, the Holy Land, Italy, Ireland, Scotland and to revisit some places in Europe I haven’t seen since I was 17 and did a lightning tour of the Continent with my parents in my last year of High School too many years ago.
Its exciting and unsettling at the same time. I plan to go for a year. I will really miss my family , especially the grandchildren whose young years are so precious, but I feel it’s the right time to go before I get too older. Every time I have gone on an extended holiday, it has inspired my writing and I am sure it will do so again.
I’d planned to buy a small terrace house to renovate and then have been seduced by modern apartments and hope to buy one of them. For really, I just need a bolthole from which to travel forth.
I have to sell most of my animals and this has indeed been hard but I am determined. I may have to give many of them away if no buyers turn up fast enough. Already most of the ducks have been sold and a few chickens. More chickens and the turkeys remain. My son wants a few chickens but only half a dozen. We have far more to let go than that.
I’ll have two summers this year and the year I return I’ll have two winters. It will be strange and wonderful.
Wish me luck,
mes amies
PS: I will keep writing here to let you know how things go.
amundr 