I’m not sure I can really tell the story of a “typical” day at La Chevrerie, since I’ve only been here for a few days, but I’ll do my best.
Around 7:30 Angela knocks on my door to tell me it’s time to get up. I make my way to the kitchen where Angela, her daughter […]

My time at Hof Schwarzes Moor has too quickly come to an end. Today I’m at La Chevrerie, a goat farm a few kilometers away from HSM run by a woman named Angela. I’ll be here for a few days - until next Thursday when I’m off to France. I hope to learn a bit […]

Fahrrad is one of my favourite words in German. Not only is it the word for one of my favourite things - bicycle - but it shows how important this vehicle is (or at least was) to the German people.
Fahr comes from fahren - to drive or ride. “Ich fahre mit dem bus.” - I […]

The word of the day is klebrig, which means sticky. On Wednesday, I finished digging the drainage ditch at the back of the house. The first bit, which I did a while ago, wasn’t so difficult since the earth was fairly dry. The bit that I finished Wednesday was downhill of the earlier bit, and […]

At 9pm on Saturday night I decided to head back to the ferienwohnung to do some reading before bed. Heading up the stairs, I happened to glance at the sky and saw the stars. Not the handful that shine through the glare of city lights, but the stars you can only see in the country. […]