After we decided that the exchange will not take place in Gárdony, where we originally planned it to, a long scouting for a new venue started. We asked all our friends, acquaintances, and set out on a scouting journey to visit the places and people...
First we went to Bócsa, then we went south to Pécs, spoke to our friend Emese, who gave us contact for a family in Hosszúhetény.
We went there the day after, slept there, and thoroughly examined their adobe house without water and electricity (but with a magical spring under a majestic tree and with a solar panel). Fáni showed us everything, all the techniques they used to build this house, and many tricks for everyday life, including a recipe for pörkölt from green peas (in exchange for several gipsy songs that Vasek tought him).
Our journey continued by hitchhiking to Nagyszékely. Edit was very enthusiastic about hosting us, and we immediately fell in love with this enchanting village full of extraordinary architecture and permacultural gardens. Unfortunatelly, they are not building there any sustainable houses in the moment - everybody rather renovates old adobe houses - so we understood that this time this place will not suitable for us.
We wanted to go on to Gyűrűfű, but the guest house was occupied for the dates of our exchange. Than we got a phone call with another possible venue, so we headed north to Tata to check it out.
Agostyán near Tata is an eco-farm and environmental education centre, and they will build a cob house there this summer. This place and Bócsa were our favourite ones - we had to meet the other members of the team to choose one of them.
Everywhere, the people were very friendly and helpful. Soon we felt that just telling our vision to others, sometimes to people we haven´t met before, brought us new contacts, possiblities and ideas, and the things started to move. Everybody helped as he or she could, and soon we got the feeling that the project is just happening around us, more than us pushing it forward...
During the travel, we saw so many wonderful places and inspiring people, that I felt really grateful that this project gave me the excuse of calling them, vising their homes and meetig them.
Vasek
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