Peloponnese Living - Out of the Rat Race
What's new on the Peloponnese Living blue zone front?
Dear friends,
You receive this email because you have asked to in one of two tribes. Peloponnese Living, a 76,000 member community on Facebook. Stay Longer, Explore More. Perhaps you want more info about properties and surfing the Greek bureaucracy?
Or you might have come to Abundance 4 ALL, the Soul in Sciences ThinkTank for Systems Change Action. Simple Complexity.
Life beyond the rat race is a healthy life. A mindful life.
Sometimes, it’s hard to combine the two concepts. But in principle, they are the same. Mike and I work in rural areas where shrink economy is the norm and industrial pollution threatens to take over just because we have the space.
We prevent. We initiated many projects for rural Netherlands and we are always with the locals to activate and bring liveliness. Vivian Manolesou and Thodoris Karagiannis are our Greek partners in Peloponnese Living.
In Abundance 4 ALL, it’s also sciences and things like enough freshwater, renewable energy beyond ugly windmills and solar parks, food security, and wildfire prevention and solutions. We do NOT want to be colonized by industrial ugliness because we have the space. We want our villages to be respected and healthy! We want our communities to be heard. We want mindful tourism, not mass! And we want our youth to be able to come back to solid work.
Even if it is remote work. That’s great work for rural young people.
We love smallholder farms, slow food, and Blue Zones. Where 1:3 people become 80+ without chronic illnesses. That’s our aim. Health. And it also means a healthy environment. Luckily, we found many many partners to make it happen with us.
Peloponnese, Greece
Our heart belongs to Peloponnese now. We live in a lively village Paralio (beach) Astros (star) and we work on concepts for the off-season to help local small Greek entrepreneurs. The farms, the alternative tourism guides, the apartment hotels who have only 2 months of business. Apart from that, we also talk to the governor with an alternative economic plan for hugely polluting and unhealthy industrial fish farms. There are always better solutions. And leaders should know and make the possibilities for those. We have the contacts to get them to Greece and create jobs. We also attract restore sea projects and make it possible to keep the small Greek fishermen at work.
We combine modern joy with old values in human size projects that go beyond just big money and Green Resets. We love the old values. And Greece is famous for that. The are the inventors of concepts like democracy, the Games where participating is more important than winning, and Philoxenia. Make strangers into friends.
We love it. And we have the Greek friends who make live by these values. Like Dimitri Kourogiorgas (accountant in love with Parnonas and Mainalo mountain who became a certified walking guide), his wife Christina (primary school teacher in love with icon painting) and Giorgos Monios and his family (3rd generation electricity store owner who partners with Dimitri for the adventurous climbing and rafting stuff).
Check out Explore Peloponnese. We will use many of their pictures in our posts. Great friends! Trusted partners!
We also listen to the Peloponnese mountain communities who fear they have to become the energy suppliers for the whole of Europe and see the fires in the big bigger biggest windmills. Not smart. No beauty. We show the governor alternative technologies such as invisible thermodynamics in harbors and sheet pile walls. Or thermodynamics from the water in the mountains. Both technologies are implemented in Limburg, the Netherlands where we come from and are not so destructive, ugly, and dangerous for wildfires.
The Busy Bees in Action
What have we been up to?
We hosted a great writers retreat welcoming 16 American writers. I gave inspiring writing lessons with some planet-connection-senses-training, and showed them how to market their inspired books. Expressing your truth is an important human right. If you want to bring a group too, feel welcome to connect.
Explore Peloponnese planned a Dutch trip in October with Earth Tracks that exists 25 years. Mindful walking holidays for nature lovers.
Mike and I wrote a 50+ page Manual for Visa, Buying & Building in Greece. Our Peloponnese Living tribe asks for it. A booklet based on interviews with Greek professionals and interviews with our community members. Also handy for planning your trip, since it is full of Peloponnese and her 7 regions.
Vivian and I developed our concept for Peloponnese Long Stay in the Off-Season broader. “30 Days Stay for 10 Days Pay” is now available from October to May in:
Arcadia - Astros, studios and villas at the beach
Messinia - Kyparissia
Achaea - near Diakopto
You can ask us about mountain villages too. All possible. For retreats, groups shorter stay. And individual travelers long stay.
It’s all village life, open in winter, domestic tourism, very authentic Greek, and is organized in hotels with a central area so you can meet each other and build community. Safe for solo-travelers or e.g. pensioners. But we have welcomed several digital nomads too. Always a friendly face around. Co-housing. Co-working.
Supportive, Active Community Is ALL We Need in Life
I’m going to our Peloponnese Living gathering today. We have a Greek sailor as a guest. Arcadian Sailing. He will be the Voice of the Sea today. A siren who will inspire a planetary wander and wonder longing sooooo big that we cannot do anything else but follow his call and explore more…
See all of you again! Or not. We talk online and offline. We share and create and have mindful lives of beauty and simplicity.
Warm regards, Desiree
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