How does it feel to be in a different country?

We once had a visitor who, being afraid of flying, persuaded us to drive to Paris to pick him up from the Eurotunnel. This proved to be a very stressful job for us, but what was interesting was his response as we left Paris and drove the 200+ miles to the Opening Space Retreat.

He was struck by the similarities between Paris and London but the further south we ventured the more he was amazed at how different his environment was becoming. As he said " the roads got steadily smaller and quieter, the villages more and more apparently deserted until we turned into the small lane which leads to the retreat."

Then his conversion to our way of life and this different country he found himself in, was complete. "There are no streetlights" he said " I can see all the stars and the silence is deafening". He took a couple of days to settle into this way of life but after that he admitted that the struggle with a different environment was well worth it.