Hi All
Wildfire - I'll certainly drop you a line. It would be good to chat to someone who has had this 'out of the blue' thing. Certainly rocked my world
Looking forward to it
Jay - It's hard for me to know where to begin in respect of Kibbutz life. It was a while ago and things have changed for kibbutzim in recent years - perhaps not for the better
This being the case, I'm not sure what any research would show up now
I was very young and the opting-out-of-society thing wasn't uppermost in my mind when I went. I've been pulled to Israel for as long as I can remember and so found the easiest way of answering that 'pull'.
I suppose what took me by surprise was that the experience made me question the lifestyle I had in London (at the time). Being young it was all clubbing and the like
On the kibbutz, I started to realise what could be found if the trappings were gone. Sounds a bit buddhist-like, I suppose, but it wasn't quite like that
Just a terrific feeling of 'ease'.