A thank you note

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu, Bulgāru, Eiropas Spāņu, Vācu, Grieķu, Franču, Itāļu, Maķedoniešu, Eiropas Portugāļu, Rumāņu and Turku. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. This is a lengthy goodbye letter that I hadn’t had time to write before I left the tour and a thank you note that has been brewing in my head for the last two months and now it has turned into an account of how I…

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Alingsås transition initiative

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The end of July is approaching, and the biketour 2015 has been on the road for about 6 weeks already! This weekend we have been staying at a private family farm near Alingsås, south-central Sweden (http://ostangsgard.se/) This family moved from a nearby town to the countryside 8 months ago, and bought a farm. Their farm is part of the transitive initiatives network (http://alingsås.omställning.net/) – a network…

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Jönköping – hot showers, chocolate cake, and other bike tourers

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The road into Jönköping was one giant downhill, and at  the bottom we arrived at the kulturhuset (http://kulturhusetjonkoping.se/). We were warmly welcomed with hot coffee (and hot showers!) and shown to our sleeping place for the next three nights, a studio room with wall mirrors. And the whole building was quite huge! When we were shown the sleeping room, there were two other bike tourers already…

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Uddebo Village – alternative living in the countryside

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The first stop after Göteborg was the small village of Uddebo (http://uddebo.se/), home to around 300 people. A few years ago this small village was given new life when people from the city seeking alternative ways of living moved there, buying previously empty houses, fixing them up, and giving them new life. Since then, the village has grouped together more to start work on restoring a…

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