Categoria: Biketour experiences

Another week full of warm hospitality while cycling in italy…

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en English, Castellano, Français i Italiano. 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. monday 3 september, we planned to leave early and got up on time, but the rain (that had been falling already for 3 days) was strong. We decided to delay our departure and got invited to join the lunch with the Valli Unite family :D. After lunch, with a grey, but dry, sky, everyone…

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Ecotopia Biketour saved the bycicles

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en English, Castellano, Français i Italiano. 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. Mass grave found in Barcelona with 234.576 corpses “Ecotopia biketour saved the bycicles” Venezia 17 Septembre 2012 Remains were found in the Collserola mountains surrounding Barcelona but do not belong to victims of the Spanish Civil War. Radiocarbon dating by Palaeontologists at the Sorbonne led to the surprising conclusion they are much older. In…

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Looking Back: From Catalunya to France

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en 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. I had an amazing time on the bike tour, cycling and living with so many lovely people in this community on wheels was a great experience, and the projects I saw have inspired me. Visiting permaculture projects in Catalunya and France, our hosts gave us tours and talks about their farming techniques, as well as getting a chance to try the organic produce. These imags…

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Cycling on…

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en 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 3 weeks of pedalling we left Ecotopia Biketour in Torino. We’re not quite sure why – the tour goes on for a few more weeks so we must have got our dates wrong! We arrived back to Manchester very cold and confused, but we were picked up straight away by the strength of our cycling community here. The Critical Mass the day after we…

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Asti To Bologna

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en 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. From Asti we had an easy but dull ride on the flat. The roads were poorly maintained and full of long crack, sometimes wider than my tires. In the distance we could see the mountain and that were we were heading. Inevitably our final destination required us to scale a massive hill. For ages we climbed and climbed, it seemed to never end. I stopped…

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What have I learnt from the tour?

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en 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. As my month of sunkissed, intense Ecotopia draws to a close, I’ve found myself wondering: have I changed as a person? For better, for worse? The more I wonder, the clearer the answer: yes, Sam, of course you’ve changed for the better, Now you have a deep, hot, glowing tan. A tan over the forearms, and even on the underside of the forearms. A tan…

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The biketour in food form

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en 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. ‘It fills my heart when people can just eat what they want to and there is still food left at the end’ – João Taborda 2012 Cycling up a hill towards Valli Unite this evening, just after my first ripe fig which I have been waiting for for months, I realised that it’s been a while since I wrote something and I thought that I…

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The Squats of Coordinamento Asti Est

Ho sentim, aquesta entrada es troba disponible únicament en English, Castellano, Deutsch, Français, Italiano i 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. 30th August – As the tours cyclists congregated outside a bar by Asti train station, a couple of our hosts for the evening arrived to take us to a large squatted building where we would eat and sleep. The building once belonged to the department of health but, left empty, it now…

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