Guest guest Posted September 9, 2002 Report Share Posted September 9, 2002 Hi Carol, Thanks so much. I don’t want to “count my chickens before they’re hatched” (literally and figuratively speaking!) but I’m so excited, I hope everything is signed by the end of the week and there are no hiccups. I had to laugh at the being in nature but… not too far from the real world and shopping – I’m exactly the same, I love it but can’t really picture myself making my own butter and cheese and shopping once a year. The great thing about this place is that it’s very close to the nearest town, not even 10 minutes from the entrance gate, so I can bushwack in style and still run over to the shops if I run out of milk :-)! Mauritius is quiet small anyway so you don’t get those farms miles away from nowhere like in bigger countries, the towns and houses are all around the farms (they farm sugar cane here) so they don’t feel like farms at all. In South Africa there are huge farms in the middle of nowhere where the farmers only see “civilization” for their big shopping stock-ups a few times a year. We won’t be living there though as we are leasing the land with a few others from the government (a 7 year renewable lease for another 7 years and so on). We don’t want to go to the expense of building a real house and then if they decide not to renew the lease one day we lose everything. Anyway I think we’ll appreciate it so much more if we only go on weekends and holidays, it makes it more special and the little inconveniences don’t bug you at all. I would love to live somewhere like that permanently but it would be far to expensive to actually buy the land, land is scarce here in Mauritius and very very expensive. The government leases a lot of “forest” land for hunting estates. The lessee then maintains and conserves the forests so it costs the government less; the leases are not very expensive. Sorry I seem to have gotten on a roll there LOL! How are you feeling? Have you finally managed to shake off that infection? I hope the Remicade is working its magic by now. You must be getting excited for your holiday! I’ll pray you have a wonderful pain-free break. By the way I’m with you for on our new lifestyle eating thing! I’m sure if we are all encouraging eachother it will make it easier, my main aim is also to be healthier and do more exercise, the weight loss would be an added bonus but it’s not the main issue. Let’s do it! Love and hugs, Heidi _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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