Jaap Rameijer's Blog

Dear friends,

We are a little bit reluctant to tell you how things will be at our place in 2016, but we have to..

We have been at Les Labadous since January 1999. Cleaning up the place, which was a major effort, for it had been used for years as a home for stray dogs. Renovating the place. Building new apartments and gites. Installing toilets, showers, kitchens, and furniture. Putting septic tanks, gas tanks and all kinds of tubes and wires in the ground. Making new central heating systems and a parking place. Making a beautiful garden, decorating the place and more, much more. We have carefully maintained the place over the past 16 years. We felt is as our duty, our mission in life and it was an honor to do so.

One of my last tours this year. A wonderful tour. With three beautiful and lovely American ladies. It was both a spiritual tour and a photographic tour. The weather was perfect, the ladies were beautiful and the scenes were magnificent. We travelled through most the South of France. From east to west. I hope that this may serve as an inspiration for people who want to come to France and visit this area. For people who want to meet Mary Magdalene. And for people looking for the roots of Christianity. Or people who want some wonderful photo shoots. Let me take you by the hand and lead you to some of the most interesting places of the South of France.

Many of us have experienced some hard times during the past months. It wasn’t easy. There were all kinds of problems. It felt as if we were being attacked on our weak points. As if things from the past needed to be solved. Or maybe it was the energy from the Universe striking the earth in powerful waves.

And maybe things are heating up here on earth and are finally coming to a conclusion. I don’t know. I only know that a lot of people were, and still are, facing serious problems and that many didn’t and don’t feel very well.

Maybe we are being confronted with ourselves. Maybe we have to open up. Revealing who we really are. Like a challenge. Going back to our source.

Not much news in July and August. We had some wonderful groups. Reint and Gabriela came to our place for the 10th time! I had a great time with a camera team from RTL 4 taking shots in Collioure for their popular program “Camping Life.” And in Rennes-le-Chateau we had, for the first time “Le festival du Film Insolite.” A perfect place for such a happening.

I had the honor to bring Tom Kenyon and Judi to their hotel in Barcelona and decided to stay over one night. To see something of this beautiful, lovely, lively, city.

First of all the Ramblas. So colorful. Lined with restaurants and stalls selling magazines in the evening and flowers in the morning. Lined with theaters, palaces, galleries, markets, churches and shops. Full of the most beautiful girls showing off to who-ever is watching them. And full of all kind of art expressions. A city of small streets, nice squares, beautiful churches, various museums and of course the famous works of Gaudi. A city full of tourists, mostly young people, riding carefree on hired bikes. And a city that is kept very clean by lots of workers.

Or the rocks of Brittany. The menhirs and standing stones of this beautiful, ancient land. There is even a book describing most of these stones, called “Au Pays des Megaliths.”

Let us start with one of my favorites. It’s called ‘La Roche aux Fées. The largest dolmen in France, so they say. Huge, magnificent, impressive. Surrounded by chestnut trees. Maybe it was in the past covered with land and grass like Newgrainge in Ireland. We don’t know. Then we drove to our B & B located in the magic forest of Broceliande.