We decided that we wanted to visit Monkton Wyld Court. Its in the south of England and we really liked the way their website sounded and the way their brochure looked. Also we knew that the climate was much milder and that there was a kindergartenfacility.

Driving down 1250 kilometers through England was very nice, we stopped to see some sights along the way but mostly we drove in two days straight to Monkton. If it wouldn't have been for Birmingham we would have made it in two days. Once we got there we enjoyed the roling hills and the nearby sea. There was a jurasic beach nearby at Charmouth filled with fossils, it was great fun walking and chipping for fossils. The landschape appealed to us right away and specially the warmer climate was very good on us. Monkton Wyld Court was once a monastary and school and now the home of the community. The community is made up out of several members who live there permantly and short term and long term volunteers.

To make money the community runs a fast amount of workshop the whole year through. They runs their own workshops but its also possible to hire the whole building for venue's. You can also do B&B in Monkton without having the pleasure of one the workshops. We could have stayed at Monkton doing B&B until christmas if we liked but we wanted to do voluntering work. We joined the volunteers after two days of bed and breakfast and were now part of the team. We could only do it for 7 days and than the community would like to review your week and say if they would welcome you for the next week, or not. I this has to do with the number of people comming and going and the community would like to be very clear on this.

The community also provides space for wayfarers, people who dont have a place to stay for the night. A very warm thing to do in this increasingly harder world. We met some very nice people this way and we can only say we are glad we came here. It wasnt easy for us to adjust to the way of life comming from Erraid which still feels like a home to us. The way people interacted was much differtent.

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