Who would have thought that this address housed a veritable ‘world house’ designed by our two ‘immobile travellers’: 6 rooms, each in the image of a continent, tell their anecdotes through a host of objects. Finally, in the gite, all the religions unite to welcome everyone according to their custom.
Zoé - 2024/11/01
Entering Beth-Salem is like entering your own home. I never felt judged.
Pau (Catalonia) - 2024/10/03
No one would imagine that behind a simple village wall you could find a whole world tour, full of colours and stories!
Zoé - 2024/09/29
Hospitality is an art that you have mastered to perfection.
Tom (Belgium) - 2024/09/25
You're working for love and peace, so don't change a thing, you're at the top of your game!
Juan - 2024/04/08
I believe the world needs people like you, to give confidence to people, to new generations and to people who have lost the light within them. I thank God for providing people like you, and I thank you for completing God's mission. It is your giving without receiving that elevates you and nourishes us, more than food at the table. To be welcomed into your home is why I believe the world will be saved as long as there are people like you. SHALOM.
Angelo (Italia) - 2021/07/18
A magnificent display of welcome, love and kindness.
Garance - 2021/06/10
Together you embody the word humanity in its broadest sense: caring for others, sharing, peace, hospitality and love. Through your actions, you show that human beings are good, that behind every face is a person with a heart ready to help someone in need.
Raphaël - 2020/10/10
Your home is a world. It reminds me of the world that welcomed our father Adam after he left paradise. Your house is an asylum where people come to drink love, peace and faith in a world that is terribly lacking in them.
Mohammed (Algeria) - 2020/07/25
The impression of being in a temple, a museum, a bed and breakfast all at the same time, and that dreamlike, multi-cultural feeling that is so particular to this place. Tortoises, tools, continents... What I'll remember most is the House of Peace, Beth-Salem.
Adrien - 2020/07/05
Odile and Jean-Michel's home shares an atmosphere of tolerance, understanding, kindness, security and comfort within its walls and within the people who live there.
Pierre - 2020/01/11
It's good to know that the world is full of beautiful people like Odile and Jean-Michel.
Roxane (Switzerland) - 2019/04/20
It's MAGIC. The welcome, the food, the people and their wonderful kindness.
Walter - 2018/08/26
Odile and Jean-Michel, distributors of happiness.
Alain - 2018/07/04
What a beauty! What a piece of work! So much love in every corner, and so many wonderful smells and colours!
Sandrine - 2018/05/05
A home with 'open arms'.
Nathan - 2018/05/25
Beth-Salem: a good place to live, where I was welcomed, very well fed, listened to, understood, guided and loved. I thank life for this wonderful encounter born of trust and love.
Grégoire (Belgium) - 2017/11/26
A home of peace, inspiring mental and physical rest.
Ouda (Algeria) - 2016/10/18
Beth-Salem. Those who live here have found peace. For others, and for me, peace is a path that leads. Here, in the quiet, thanks to you I know I haven't lost my way. I think I've seen in you something to nourish hope.
Axel - 2016/07/21
There are many people good and welcoming, but it is rare to meet people that do things with open heart, like you. I appreciate your way to live... doing everything with love: gardening, building your very nice house and hosting people.
Emanuela (Italy) - 2016/07/08
Odile and Jean-Michel's kindness is matched only by their simplicity. They call themselves ‘immobile travellers’, but the themed rooms in their large house are an invitation to travel. I wish them many more fascinating encounters, and I myself hope to meet many people with the same open-mindedness as them. Odile and Jean-Michel, I think your kindness is contagious.
Frédéric - 2016/06/02
You come by chance, but you don't leave with the same vision of life, of yourself and of your host... you must stay for several days to feel that inner peace.
Jean-Marc - 2016/03/10
I hope that you will continue to welcome people from a wide range of backgrounds, religions and lifestyles. I very much appreciate your commitment to mutual respect between people, without which peace is impossible.
Victor - 2014/08/15
Beth-Salem, a house of joy, a house of welcome, a house of caring. A house of God's gifts, receiving all others as God's gifts, in all their differences and diversities.
Antoine (Congo) - 2012/08/18
You value life and everything that surrounds you so much, that you bring out the true value that everything, every act and every person has. It is marvellous!
Elena (Spain) - 2012/05/01
It's here, now, in some rare place like your home, Odile and Jean-Michel, which truly deserves the name ‘Beth-Salem’, where you can hear the ‘sweet harmony’ of Schubert, Mozart and Love.
Maria (Italy) - 2011/08/16
Your philosophy of life is beautiful and dearly you are both involved in making the personal changes you wish for the whole world and for the planet. It is contagious! Together we can change the world.
Sudia Paloma and Gregoire (USA) - 2011/04/18
I feel your house is really BETH-SALEM and SHALOM, and this is so precious and wonderful. I know I have an important lesson for my life here at your place. Hospitality is a food for the soul, and you really fulfil this.
Hadar and Nachulm (Israel) - 2009/01/12
Your warm and open home reflects your warm and open hearts. The world needs more hearts such as yours. Continue to be the change the planet needs so much.
Justine and Phil (New Zealand) - 2007/10/06
You've done much more than your mission required; you've put a smile on my face! On the strength of your advice and friendship, I choose Life!
Ludovic (Senegal) - 2003/09/10
Don't forget hospitality: it has enabled some people, without knowing it, to welcome angels into their homes (Heb 13 1-2)
Bernard-Emmanuel (Congo) - 2002/10/31