Workcamp in Graçay 1

Hello, there.


How have you been? It's been ages since we posted last time. :)

We've just came back at home from our first workcamp in Graçay. It's a pity we should leave there one week earlier than others because of our next workcamp. We had a lot of fun and spent great time with beautiful people. So, today I'd like to introduce you our first workcamp. There are many episodes during two weeks, let me introduce Graçay and general information of this workcamp at first.


Graçay is pretty small village in 'Centre' region. The population of this village is only around 1500 people. There are lots of old buildings and two old and unique churches. We were supposed to stay in the camping site, we were very close to the mother nature. Everyone who participated in loved the nature, so even staying in a tent during 3 weeks made us happy.

Our task was to renovate the old stone wall. Actually the cityhall of Graçay has invited the workcamp every year for 8 years. So this big and long stone wall has been renovated very slowly for 8 years by only volunteering. It's build about 100 years ago, and some plants were growing inside and the top of the wall, and it made the wall destroyed. So we got rid of these plants and cleaned all dusts and grounds on the top of the wall. After that, all lacks of it were filled with the combination of ciment and lime. Our technical leader was a professional of construction, so we could get a lot of useful knowledge and skills.

The time table of working was very flexible because of the weather, so we did many activities and had some leisure time. I let you know in detail at the next posting ;)