2013 – Page 5 – Ecotopia Biketour

Garten der Generationen… one two three!

kate August 3, 2013 October 25, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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. A few images from an evening at Garten der Gernerationen, an emerging community project experimenting with anti-capitalist ideals, self-organisation and self-sufficiency. After an introduction from one of the founders, who also founded a successful community not far from here, we eagerly offered help with their straw bale house construction … . . . .…

Military zone by dusk to MoA! Farm

kate August 2, 2013 October 4, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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. Some how I did not take any photographs of this magical place… but there are many by others and they are BEAUTIFUL! The journey to Mottinger Amt (a.k.a.) MoA in Waldviertel was a mixture of picturesque rolling hills and cycle paths past corn fields, idyllic looking villages and the sun setting on the Czech…

When things go wrong they often turn out as the best stories

sml July 29, 2013 December 3, 2014

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. 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. After our partly difficult days in Prague, a big city in which we didn’t have a very secure sleeping place and thus some left the group to stay privately with friends, in hostels our outside in the forest, we were looking ahead to some cycling days until our next project in Austria. We were advised to follow the Greenways route until it first reaches the border and…

Resilience and Reconciliation (Prague…)

kate July 28, 2013 October 4, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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. On entering Prague we were joined by someone from the local Critical Mass network, who after a quick rehearsal in how to create a critical mass, decided that the 50 strong cyclists were enough to take on the highway into the capital city of Czech Republic! This was our first self made Critical Mass…

Wagon Tales…Outdoor Cinema

kate July 26, 2013 October 25, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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. On leaving Usti we made it along the Elbe to a secluded Wagenplatz through a contact we had made in Prague. Here they were preparing for a festival of local community projects, which we unfortunately could not attend but, after supper, which was prepared there for us, we shared some films on their open…

NE RASISMU! Roma Children’s action in Usti

kate July 24, 2013 October 4, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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 Usti we were invited to join a group of activists, NE RASISMU!, from Usti and Prague that are concentrating on Roma racism, anti-ciganism, and antifascism, to learn about the situation tere from the people directly involoved. We met the group at one of the biggest ‘ghettos’ in Czech Republic; Predlice in the city…

Border messages by satellite…. Border Crossing #1

kate July 23, 2013 October 4, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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. Next day was our first border crossing from Germany to the Czech Republic… marked unassumingly by a small EU sign. But once we had crossed, the visual signs became more clear, and the landscape more wild. Actually the first thing that marked the crossing was a small reminder from our mobile phone providers, followed…

Sorbian poets and a midnight critical mass….

kate July 23, 2013 October 23, 2013

Sorry, this entry is only available in English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Română. 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. On our route from Proschim we were made more aware of the extent of the open cast mines in the outskirts and surrounding areas that left huge blue lakes in place where farm land and village life once thrived. We did, I must admit take advantage of one of these lakes at lunchtime, only…