Jaap Verhoef is a retired English teacher from the Netherlands, currently living in Southern Styria. To him retirement meant leaving the treadmill, finally getting a life. He lives alone in an old Styrian wooden farmhouse on the top of one of the foot hills of the Buchkogel. He paints, analyses chess openings, cooks, makes poems and song texts, and entertains visitors. He has no car, but goes around the country side on a bike. Since coming here he has lost 20 kilos …