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How much they pay etc.
Karel’s letters written during travellingLetters written when working while travelling, part 7. How much they pay etc. Yup, still writing my blog, but haven’t had a chance to put it on the net yet. Got so much other stuff I’m trying to do, but hope to get all the text with pictures up soonish. Recently I found I’m very high on google for such searches as "cheap travel Europe" or "cheap Europe tour guide" and I’m actually getting the occasional request from people, so the blog stuff is good. Mostly I’ve been just throwing up my email correspondence in different categories, since I write so much of that, whereas blogs require careful preparation with pictures. It’s very lovely up here and the gardening is great. But his projects are substantially different from yours: he buys some old dying rubble that the family has been holding on forever but looks like it’s about to collapse to the ground. Buys it rather cheap and starts fixing it up himself. His new experiment are these solar panel heaters, below the house so after the heated water naturally rises to the solar panel, it then winds its way back to the solar panel, by itself due to gravity, but also winds its way through the floors of the house and keeps it from getting too cold. Then he plans to have a septic tank system which pumps the stuff under the garden, feeding the grass and the vegetables, so quite a self sustained system and interesting learning. He then rents them out over the year and finds some local "manager", who can usually sleep somewhere for free and is cheap. I think it’s just his retirement plan or something and would like to try that one day myself. Hope you guys sell the house. You always seem to have bad timing, and I guess your very fancy houses can be a hard sell, especially because of the crunch etc. Been reading about that and trying to understand it better. Rather interesting, but the more I read the more it seems evident that the big boys at the top are screwing up everyone else. Probably buddies with the politicians and they all profit in some way. Will keep reading. Your projects are prestigious but maybe not as practical as Roger’s method. But I cannot imagine you tolerate these conditions. Almost like camping. Am documenting pictures of "before and after", and the toilet here is quite funny (a hole through cement that plops down to the ground somewhere). Below us is a barn he will convert to a house with a bunch of rooms. There is a balcony that overlooks the valley, and at the end of this "balcony", without even a floor, is a hole in the floor that drops down a storey to the ground below. But we don’t use that one. Anyway, each room will have its own shower room/toilet once done, so enjoying the learning and watching the development. Will try to send some pics. Well, off to start work soon. Things are going generally great and quite enjoying it. Roger is quite cool and relaxed, so cant imagine falling out with him. We think much the same way. Adio! * * * Island Hopping in the Philippines * * *
Published - August 2012
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They like my cooking here so far, but the Bulgarian team hasn’t arrived
yet. But I think they will be secondary, in case that they wine for traditional
Bulgarian food, but I think it should be okay. Rog is giving me 7 Euro
an hour, another British dude just arrived yesterday and he will be the
main project guy, and then the Bulgarians will be doing all the grunt
work for 2 Euro an hour. I can stop working any time a translation comes
in, and some has already. I cook every day and get my food for free, whether
I work for him or not, so I’m saving quite a lot and I think I might be
able to put about a thousand Euro a month in the bank working for him,
so I hope to do that for a year or two and come out of it well on my feet.
