About the Slavs
Meet the Slavs!
Cristian: Former graphic designer. Engineering buff. Dab hand at vegetation control.
Irina: Energy writer. Fiction writer. Recipe writer. Merciless weed-killer.
Ecaterina: Artist. Full-time student of how everything works. Future vet.
Vlad: Country boy. Mouse menace. Internal purrbustion engine.
All three Slavs are city-born but with deep country roots. As a child, Cris spent his summers with his grandparents in the country where he learned to grow corn, care for chickens and drive a tractor.
Irina was less lucky because none of her grandparents made it long enough for her to meet them but at one point in the 1990s her parents bought a piece of land in the village where her father was born.
It was to this village that the Slavs moved in the early weeks of the 2020 pandemic chaos. Schools were going remote, Irina and Cris both worked from home so there was really no reason to stay in the city when they could be out in the air with plenty of bugs for Cat to play with. Which she did.
After spending nine months in Dalboki during that fateful year, an idea began to form. The idea came down to an extra simple question: if we could spend nine months in the country and like it, why not make it 12 out of 12?
The decision was made in early 2021, the kitchen was made in August the same year and everything was ready for the move. It took place in June 2022 and we have never regretted it.
Country life is often fun because there is so much happening, if you can trust all those birds that feel the pressing need to inform us of all that’s happening at regular and frequent intervals during the day. And the night.
It is often challenging, too, and that’s the best part of it all. That and the endless sky. Also the home-grown vegetables, of course. Here, we’ll talk about the fun, the challenges, the vegetables, and everything else we encounter on our journey back to our roots.