Jaap Rameijer's Blog

I didn’t know whether if I should continue to write my newsletters after re-emigrating to the Netherlands. But several of my friends asked me to do so, so I will. And besides many strange things have happened to me, as always. Things that I love to share with you, dear friends.

I think that I left Les Labadous and Rennes-le-Chateau and even the south of France rather too quickly. Understandably, for when your house is sold you no longer ‘belong’ to that place. Now I was living in an almost empty shell, for all my stuff had been packed by the mover and was stocked in the Netherlands. So I left two days after signing the final contract on March 29th with just my personal things. Enough for living out of the boot of my car.

And I was also in a hurry to find a house, a new house, my new house in Friesland.

 It is done. It is finally done. Les Labadous has been sold on March 29th 2016.

And we are both happy and sad that is has been sold. Happy that it finally has been sold, after being for sale for nearly 6 years. We had several interested parties but Les Labadous just did not want to be sold to them.

What a curious times, what a strange times. Difficult times for most of us. Uncertainty, anxiety, drastic changes everywhere. People are loosing their jobs, many are stepping into the unknown, trying to start a new life. And lot of our friends are tired, exhausted, or very ill.

What is happening? Not only here, but all over the world? It feels as if major changes are coming our way. For which we must be prepared. We may have to transform ourselves, to cleanse our bodies and souls and to solve negative karma from the past. As well as dealing with all the bad experiences from our present life.

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.

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.