Ecotopia Biketour Beyond Borders Video

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”. 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. https://vimeo.com/groups/436501/videos/73425586 (Vimeo link) Check out this beautiful video made during our kick off days in Berlin by the wonderful Claudia! … Subtitles available in German / Untertitel jetzt auch auf Deutsch: Download here/hier! (Video von vimeo runterladen und auf Computer speichern. Dasselbe mit der Untertitel-Datei. Video mit VLC-Player öffnen. Untertiteldatei auswählen. Abspielen!)

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Vukovar’s alphabet wars are all in the signs

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. En route to Novi Sad we heard about the protests in Vukovar, (or Вуковар as the Serbian population would want it to be referred to) that had recently erupted over a longstanding dispute about minority language, that led to the newly erected Cyrillic signs being torn down from public buildings and three days…

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Brčko, the Balkans’ ‘Free City’?

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. We left the common pastures of Croatia and again skirted the border between Croatia and Bosnia, finally crossing for a lunch spot at the border control point. Here an Italian man stopped to wish us well on our journey, only to then return 10 minutes later with a huge watermelon and bottles of…

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A Common Treasury for all…

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. Through a contact at Green Action Zagreb, our next destination was to meet activist fighting for the right to common pastures in Croatia. We made camp in their common field, and took a wash in the Sava — some of us even swimming across to Bosnia on the other side! The next morning…

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Museum of Local Life and the stone flower for the victims of Jasenovac

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. After wild camping near to the the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, we set off next morning, despite the rain, for our 70 km cycling day along the Sava river. En route a few of us took the opportunity to visit a local social anthropology/ ethnographic museum in someone’s back garden. Without any common…

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Green Action Zagreb and the BIC POP!

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. .In Zagreb we were warmly hosted at Green Action, Zelena Akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia, who welcomed us with a party with some of the local activists dealing with local migration and environmental struggles.  Over the few days there we held an info exchange with local migration activists, visited two of…

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The high road or the low road…view from the hard pass

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. After a long 1000km accent… admiring the view from the Slovenian mountains and my trusty steed…

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Waking up the biketour way!

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “Американский Английский”, “Европейский Испанский”, “Немецкий”, “Французский”, “Итальянский” и “Румынский”. 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. You can do it Natty! Some of us get over our fears and jump for West Papua, whilst others enjoy the alternative way to wake up before a days cycle…

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