Helping furniture designer Ross Anneels

This is our first helpers experience. After travelling and spending way too much money we are looking for some kind of different experience. Australia is full of different travellers options and most of them pretty well organised.

For food and accomodation, we are helping Ross and his family in the garden and in his workshop. The place looks interesting to me as they have set up a 'institute' where classes, workshops, concerts and conferences are held. It looks like an inspring place.

We did think it would be bigger structure/community though, with a couple of families but it is just one family. The experience was good, it was inspiring for me as the place was full of art books, and Ross and his family are an example of artists that are living from their art,their dream.

It brought me back into my uni years as Ross taught us to use the wood cutting machines. I am not used to seing Pau doing some manual work and I must say, it suits him pretty well.

 This area (around Noosa) is full of artists and we got to meet some of Ross' entourage. The concert in the indian restaurant was great as they were celebrating Holy. A happy day in India where people through paint to eachother...un avant-gout of the next step in our trip.

 Accomodation was special. We stayed in a small hut at the bottom of the garden, the views were stunning as well as the "gecko/snake/whatever it was" poos. We knew that snakes live in the area as we had seen a red belly black snake the day before in the garden, one of the highly poisoness ones and the the Python carpet snake had eaten 3 of the family's chickens the month before we arrived.






 Pau would call the dogs at night and make them go first to scare any venemous animal on the way to our hut...we are still alive...no bad encounter in our hut...a part from the thousands mosquitoes that landed and had a good taste of my blood.