Job profile! in Change: From globetrotter to craftsman & house builder

Dave Beere is 67 and has done a lot wrong in his life, as he says: For example, he only went to school for a few years. He left New Zealand for five years and is around Welt travelled. But he only finally found his peace in his homeland.

Cowboy in Australia and Russia crossing in Cold War

As a young man, Dave wanted to see the world: he worked on various farms, drove to the sea and was a cowboy in Australia. Finally, with a friend from New Zealand, he crossed all Russia from Japan and finally reached West Berlin. That was the end of the sixties and in the middle of the cold war.

The friend stayed because of one Ms. da, became a photographer and still lives in Berlin, but Dave moved on to Austria, where he learned the craft of carving. He actually wanted to go to America, but family reasons forced him to return home.

With the own hands the rainforest usable

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Dave met his wife Anna. In 1977, the two bought property in the Northlands: “We wanted to get out of town and we had Anxiety from an atomic bomb,” they tell me, laughing at their naivety at the time. What is left of this one Idea a little paradise in the rainforest overlooking the Bay of Islands.

Initially, the property consisted only of undeveloped rainforest, which the two of them worked hard on and cultivated themselves according to their own ideas. "It is," they explain to me, "much nicer when you build something up with your own hands - you can appreciate that a lot more afterwards."

Expensive clothes and rubber boots

Today, the two regret that this is no longer possible for legal reasons: "If you want to build a house, you can design it yourself, but then you have to hire a builder."

From then on Dave worked as a craftsman and built furniture. Anna designed clothes and bags that she sold to Auckland. Both worked together in the barn. “I used to make very expensive clothes here while I was walking around in the mud in rubber boots,” laughs Anna.

Tourism by Chance

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The Shops went well because hardly any goods were imported into New Zealand at the time. When the imported goods from Asia came later, everything became cheaper - and Dave and Anna had to come up with something new.

The idea of ​​renting out to tourists came about by chance, they tell me. “It happened by chance”. The barn became a Kanuka Loft with kitchen and terrace.

Surprised by the success of the idea

“Actually, we never intended to go into the tourismIndustry to get in, because we value our peace and quiet lonliness here,” says Anna, who was surprised by the Success the idea: "We thought we could rent out a few weeks a year - now we're almost always fully booked!"

Still, they prefer to stop the tourists Distance and therefore only offer holiday apartments: "The tourists stay there and we stay here, that's a good thing."

Barefoot for tree planting

Behind the house Dave wants to set up a small tree plantation. Barefoot, as he likes to walk around on his property, he shows me the place in the forest. He does not have permission for that, but has his own, typically New Zealand philosophy:

“Never tell a bureaucrat what you intend to do, then there is only Problems. Make it easy. There's always time later!" Well, the trees have to grow for a few hundred years first.

How important is cultural identity?

Dave still occasionally takes handicraft orders today. His work on the house of the Bishops Pompallier in Russell was also made by him: he built the furniture inside, roofed it and functioned as a carpenter, turner, turner and roofer in one.

He does TaiChi. And he dealt extensively with the Maori culture and learned their language: “The Maori” explain to me Dave and Anna “from a certain point they believed that it was better to adapt to European culture. That is exactly why they lack a piece of cultural identity. ”

Running away instead of arriving is always the worse alternative

Anna and Dave finally took root here. However, they have seen the life without roots often enough with emigrants: “We saw a lot of people come here who left somewhere.

But they weren't going anywhere and that's why it didn't work here. Running away instead of arriving is always worse Alternatives!

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