February 2014. Dimitri, midway into his PhD project in astrophysics, gave Caroline, a French backpacker who’d just quit her hectic parisian life made of shopping and red wine, a surf lesson at Manly Beach, Sydney. Rewildin started… not in a garage, but in a van. A few days later, we moved in together. In a van… We lived in it while we were working in the City in Sydney. Every weekend we would just slam the van’s doors and drive off to disconnect and re-connect with nature and with ourselves. During our van trips, we found it difficult to find places off the beaten track and campsites that were not overcrowded, or even booked out. We discovered permaculture. We were craving for new skills to learn and we couldn’t find any website combining accommodations and workshops so we decided to create our own. After pondering for a year, we gave up our 9-5 jobs for our dream project, Rewildin. Our vision is to inspire people to reconnect with nature and with themselves.