What an encouraging story. Thank you very much for that. Did you have to save and work a long time for it? Did you have to have health insurance during your travel time before you settled? Here in Germany it's impossible, they won't let you be without insurance.
I admire your courage and determination to owe Caesar his desire. For my part, I have made my niche life possible, but it now seems to be coming to an end and I wonder what comes next. The courage to start something new at 50, I seem to be the same age, is something you have to find.
How is your fruit farm now? How is it living where you are at the moment?
Greetings & happy new year.
I have only just seen your comment - sorry!
I had sold a house in UK which more than paid for the journey & property in Spain. I insured my vehicle & that was all. In 2008 the financial crash threatened Spain's economy first & I lost my school students due to their parents losing jobs. Then my family in UK needed my help so I had to sell up & return to UK.... sadly. I still miss it every day.
Especially now that Britain is a gulag..... covid..... maddening, isn't it?
All the better that you started your adventure at a time when it was possible for you. You are richer than probably many other people who never took such risks in their lives. I admire you for your journey, your decision and I am happy about the experiences you had. I completely understand that you miss the time. Sometimes I think that I have had so much of the good life that it is only fair now that I am no longer blessed by life. But that may be ungrateful, I'm not sure. Life in Germany is not much different, the winter makes me a bit tired and the pressure coming from the powerful is enormous. I am very sure that basically no one really believes in an epidemic any more, but fears all the more the power of the controlling bureaucracy and therefore wants to continue to hold on to the narrative so as not to face the drama of an admission. This alone shows the unnoticed transgression of the rules whenever people feel unobserved and safe. But if you then ask them if they think the rules are right, they say yes. Strange, but not inexplicable.
Sister, I wish you well, if I may call you that.