Categorie: 2024

Grab your bikes and your instruments! This year the route will start with not just one but two biketours! Ecotopia will join forces with SunRide System, a band of musicians and street artists. With their sound systems on cargobikes they’re touring and bringing along music everywhere they go. They do concerts in various different localities and communities, as well as paid gigs to fund their journey. We’ll take it slow and have time to do music on the streets of villages and towns or on the beautiful landscapes on our way. We hope for a joyful time full of singing,…

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Nous sommes un collectif auto-géré et itinérant et nous sommes à la recherche d’un lieu pour nous accueillir quelques jours lors de notre prochain voyage en vélo. Co voyage commencera dans le Nord de la France (peut-être bien en Bretagne) et se déroulera de fin juin à fin septembre 2025. Cette année, notre voyage s’organise autour de la lutte anti-raciste et décoloniale, c’est pourquoi nous serions particulièrement intéressé·es de rencontrer des personnes concernées ou engagées dans ces luttes. Lorsque nous collaborons avec un lieu/des personnes/un collectif, nous faisons généralement un petit don financier (principalement des dons des participant·es). Cela dépend…

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Ecotopia 2025 has slowly started rolling forward…. This year we will be heading to Northern France and surrounding areas! The planning of the route is currently ongoing. Ecotopia is a self-organised biketour riding across different parts of Europe every year creating community and connection on the road, learning together, organizing on consensus basis without hierarchies. We promote DIY culture, ecological lifestyle, queerfeminism, antiracism and intersectional values. The tour lasts 3 months and usually consists of 15-30 cyclists at a time. We visit different activist and social projects, hold workshops and skillshares on the way, fight injustice and support each other…

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26.08 Riga, Fukusima Struggling with finding my way to Fukusima, but getting a reply quickly when I ask for help. Being welcomed by the only person I know there. Eating my lunch together with the food which is immediately offered to me, some couscous and pickled vegetables and mushrooms, while the question “Is it better to have diarrhea or to vomit while biking?” is discussed. People apologize for the imagery, and I say that I don’t mind and sharing related stories of my own. Eating pancakes with banana and peanut butter and chocolate paste. Repairing the roof of an overwater…

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Our ecotopian experience started at Kombinatas Fest, in a north-east lithuanian campsite, the 15th of August. Getting there from Barcelona was a challenging experience on itself, taking into account our willigness to avoid planes. But we achieved it!! And realised that there is still much to be done in improving train connections, prices and bike users friendlyness. In that last aspect, there was one key ingredient that helped us a lot: bike sharing among the ecotopian group. Since the group was changing, there were two kind and cool people leaving two bikes that were incredible matching our sizes and expectations.…

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note: Our route this year has not been straight forward or following any sensible, chronological order! Don’t be confused that our blog posts are also coming in a non order of anarchist chaos. This post is about Tampere, which was our third place to visit after Helsinki and Turku. So, all of this took place before the last four blog posts you may have read, enjoy a little time travel! Tampere Tampere Tampere! This was my 1st Ecotopia bike tour, and first bike tour. I wasn’t sure what to expect and was nervous about how it would go with the…

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I arrived in Tallinn by bus on the 18th of July, first day of the non QUINTAW part (which is something we might talk in another blogpost). Back then I was young, excited to start that new adventure of cycling through this unknown paradise we like to call The Baltics, I was so naive… Okey, the Tallinn experience was indeed thrilling. We were hosted for five or so days in the Anarchist Social Center of the city, Ülase 12, by the most sweet, lovely and caring hardcore coloured mohawk haired gang of punkies. They were making us dinner every day!…

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