circus at les charlets . . .

. . . and so to the first Helpx experience . . . a circus yoga place in the hamlet of Les Charlets, near the village of Serres sur Arget, twelve kilometres from Foix . . .
. . . a fair few hours walk, but most of the way a lift from a local couple . . . hitch-hiking changes on rural roads . . . stranger danger recedes and a more ancient impulse of hospitality appears . . .
Cat is from Australia, teaches Iyengar Yoga, trapeze . . . training ducks . . . slowly transforming a barn to a house . . . I have the use of a caravan with a wood burning stove . . . there is a compost toilet . . . a bath heated by lighting a fire underneath . . . the deal is bed and board in exchange for five hours a day work . . . fencing, fruit tree planting . . . the priority perhaps making the living space in the barn draught-proof before the snow comes . . . which is anytime soon, though the forecast for the next week looks mild enough . . .
. . . a few days, perhaps a week . . . a beautiful, remote place . . . let's see . . .