Escaped in Paradise

Laura and Florian Campean enjoy the common life of the echo-village Piracanga.

On a Brazilian beach, 9,300 kilometers away from Romania, two former corporatists have found the receipt for being happy.

Laura (aged 33) and Florian Campeanu (aged 37) discovered happiness in Piracanga village, in the south Bahia, Brazil,  over 9,300 kilometers away from home. They left in June with EUR 4,000 in their pockets, money obtained from the sale of a motorcycle.

They left in the search of happiness, the eternal sunshine and life like a holiday. The two wanted a common place to raise their unborn child.

"We both had an office job, we were top-managers and media people. Now we've discover now that field labor gives us satisfactions that we never had in meetings, reports and media plans" said for “Adevarul” daily the two Romanians who pay their sit by arranging flower and vegetable gardens.

The couple discovered life beyond office work, bosses, stress and bank loans.

At the beginning of the year, in January, Laura and Florian left for Norway, determined to dedicate their lives to voluntary labour.

We’ve spent four months there, as students in a school of voluntaries, where we used to ‘train’ for a humanitarian mission in Africa. The trainings should have finished in November 2009, but in March I found out I was pregnant and our plans changed for good.

So we started to search on the Internet eco-villages, tells Laura for “Adevarul”.

This was one of our common dreams – to live in a country where is always hot, over 20 degrees.