Jaap Rameijer's Blog

Dear friends,

First of all we would like to wish you a very happy New Year.

We hope that you may stay in good physical and spiritual health.

It will be a special year, for many of us, for our friends and family and, I think, even for the world.

For us the New Year started wonderfully.

On January 5^th we signed a preliminary sales contract for Les Labadous. The final property transfer will be around March 15^th.

Hapy to Announce that my book MEN ARE DIFFERENT is now available on Amazon/Kindle. Thank you Tina and Abraham for getting the book in its proper content, format and design as I liked. Hope you all will enjoy!

Who knows, this may be my last newsletter from France. For I have a feeling that this place, our lovely place La Source, in the valley of Les Labadous, at the foot of that magic village Rennes-le-Chateau, will be sold within the next few months.

I already sent you a mail and newsletter saying that we will not be able to take in groups and provide meals for them next year. We are very sorry but ‘it is as it is’ as they say in France.

However you will be welcome to stay at our place until it is sold. That is if you provide for your own meals. And I will be happy to guide you as long as I am there. And maybe the new owners will honor the reservations you wanted to make for 2016. We will certainly tell them.

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.