Welcome to the birth of our blog! We're Chris (Australian) and Jules (English) and we live in Stockholm, Sweden, with our two children, and we have a dream - some might call it a fantasy - to change our lifestyle in virtually every possible way and live completely 'off the grid'. Stockholm isn't the setting for this dream, but a tiny rural community called Newee creek - over 15,000 kilometres away, in northern New South Wales, Australia.
We catapulted ourselves headlong into this dream two years ago: it started with a relaxing three month vacation/family visit, evolved into regular lets-move-to-australia conversations, followed by a frenzied property-viewing mission, and before we knew it, we were land owners. Owners of a 12-acre, North-facing block, surrounded by pristine bush: signed; sealed; paid for. Gulp. Here's a photograph:
