We're at our happiest and best when we're either camping on the beach,
snorkelling and scuba diving.
or cooking up a storm being creative in the kitchen - just for us, or for our friends and family.
Its the best way to forget the stresses of daily life and just enjoy what nature and the world has to give us.
One night we were sitting in our lounge just looking around at all our 'stuff' - 5 laptops (3 personal and 2 for work), 4 smart phones (personal and work), an iPad, a Play Station, 50" plasma TV ..... and we asked ourselves ... What do we need all this 'stuff' for?
We buy it because we can .... its what everyone else has too!
But what if we changed how we lived our lives and went from this technology age, back to a simpler way of life?
This got us thinking into an alternative way of living. I'd had an allotment in the UK, we grew vegetables in pots in our garden in Dubai, David spear fishes and selects the best and biggest fish which we use to either feed us and a group of our friends, or to use for days in different dishes from just plain fillets, to fish cakes or curries, and then use the left overs to make fish stock.
What if we took these basic skills that we love using and put them to good use?
Can we survive a downscale from a pretty privileged lifestyle that we have earned through a lot of hard work and excellent education, to a subsistence lifestyle in a country with intermittent or sometimes completely lacking supply of electricity and no running water at times?
We think we can.......
We're about to embark on our adventure to Nosy Be, Madagascar!
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