BRAZIERS PARK

Walking towards utopia

travelling by communities and ecovillages

BRAZIERS PARK

www.braziers.org.uk
+44 (0) 01491680221

Braziers Park is a community, a residential college and an architectural treasure hidden deep in the south Oxfordshire countryside. It was founded in 1950 as an educational trust, and is a continuing experiment in the advantages and problems of living in a group. Community members share responsibility for running the college and the estate. There is much more information in the web site.

It was the first time I made apple juice with a manual press and I made a “baked” omelette.

I remember my first sensation was a bit “decadent”, because of the building and the inner decoration. This was my fifth destination in England and, when I arrived, I was tired because of the changes of place each two weeks for the last two months. I had to learn again people´s names, the way the project works and where the things were, for example. I had few life energy and Braziers gave me few energy too, so it wasn´t one of the best experiences, although it wasn´t a bad one. There was a farewell celebration for a volunteer and I saw her emotion and other people´s emotion. It was great for me because I wasn´t feeling the same. Other volunteers I met there were Andrea, Iska, Jose and Katharina. I also met Gan and Kazumi, who had a great dossier about their ecologic farm and educational centre in Malaysia.

The diet is omnivorous, mainly vegetarian. There are sheep and chickens. There are public phone and several computers with public internet access, so I made use of it and I finished the English version of this web site. There are buses each hour to/from Reading and Oxford.

As in 3 of my 6 destinations in England, we had military company in the sky, this time couples of helicopters.

BUS: nearby stop (line Reading-Wallingford-Oxford)
TRAIN: Goring & Streatley (8 km)

STAY: 30 October - 13 November’06

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