#XrisLogbook 188 - Landing, Limbo, Living 🇲🇺

👍🏻 We finally landed in Mauritius. Yet strangely, it still feels a little like a holiday. We’ve been here so many times that my brain hasn’t quite registered that this time, we’re staying. Lucy seems to have adapted faster than us: she found a friend, discovered padel, the beach… and apparently parents have already become optional. At least I’m no longer hearing “Why did we come here?” Our temporary penthouse on the beach, three minutes from Cocoon Bay, is making the transition pretty easy. 😁

👎🏻 Cocoon Bay has changed enormously since I last saw it. Inside, we’re probably 90% there. Outside, perhaps 70%. And I’m rediscovering that the last 10% of any project has a remarkable ability to consume 50% of the energy. There are always things you didn’t anticipate: not enough power sockets, solar panels that heat the water but don’t power the house, delays with the electricity connection… The good news is that things are moving in the right direction, our comments are being addressed, and being three minutes away rather than thousands of kilometres away certainly helps. Our container arrives on August 18. Whether the house will be ready for it is another question. 😅

✍🏻 I’ve travelled so much, and visited Mauritius so many times, that I’m discovering something unexpected: moving somewhere and feeling that you live there are two very different things. We’ve changed country, but we’re still living out of suitcases in a temporary home. Maybe the real arrival won’t be the immigration stamp, the new phone number or the change of address. Maybe it will simply be the day our things arrive, the boxes disappear, and for the first time we close the door and think: we’re home. 🌱

🙏🏻 Special thanks this week to Karl & Stephanie

🧭 August continues with one thought

You can arrive somewhere long before you feel at home.

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