Kategoria: Biketour experiences

first days cycling italy..

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. And now for another day by day update from the past week. although we have just realised that; 1. today is our two month birthday of starting cycling!!! Time for a celebration I think. 2. we only have one week left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooo saturday 25 august, after the the NO TAV camp general assembly, a big group of people tried to walk to the TAV construction site and…

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last days in france

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. Riding through the Alps we have seen some beautiful (and steep!) mountains and visited some inspiring projects. Shooting stars have been more common than internet along the way, so here is a quick update of what we have been doing: tuesday 14 august, the action working group had a meeting and contacted local activists against nuclear energy along our route. At lunch time, Caroline, the mayor of…

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five weeks on the road!

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. sunday 5 august, we held an anti-fracking workshop in Avignon square. While preparing dinner, T. held a Rhythms of Resistance workshop with recycled materials, pots and pans. We then joined up with the Serious Beans Project (a band who will join the tour so long as they can carry their violin, trumpet and doube bass amoungst other instruments on their bikes). They later gave us and the…

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Degrowth makes you grow

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. Last Thursday, after five weeks of cycling, I left the biketour on a high, knowing already that I’d be back. I left partly because I was a bit tired. Selforganization is very empowering but takes a lot of energy and effort, especially when you are on the road with 25 to 30 people on average. I felt I couldn’t fully participate anymore unless I had a substantial…

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another week on our bikes…

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. thursday 26 july, after the long circle of wednesday, one of the conclusions was the lack of time for resting and organizing workshops, so the group decided to change a bit the plan for the next days and go directly to Montpelier in two days (just one night of wild camping). Some of us stopped in Beziers for internet and most of the day we followed paths…

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Biketour in poetry form :-)

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. Ecotopia Degrowth 2012 Follow the arrows and arrive to a buzz of energy, Vines to be weeded and a circle under an olive tree, Friendly faces and warm smiles welcome you to the group, Intrigued, wander about the farmhouse to have a better look. A Degrowth workshop to share information together, Sitting in groups discussing in lovely weather, Name games with which to remember everyone, Sign up…

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One paragraph per day…

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti. 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. (soon will try to upload some pictures to this post also) sunday  15 july, we said goodbye to our kind hosts of Can Piella in the morning and followed a nice road to San Pol de Mar, Iago arranged us a place to stay, the Poliesportiu municipal, and in the night we met with a orquestra band from the town and some friends of a known poet Perejaume to talk…

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Decreciendo sobre ruedas

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: Amerikanenglanti, Euroopanespanja, Ranska ja Italia. 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. Participar en Ecotopia biketour es una formidable aventura personal y colectiva no exenta de múltiples y variados riesgos. Si uno no sabe mantener el sutil equilibrio entre las dos ruedas de su bicicleta podría verse obligado al descanso forzoso durante unos días e incluso a abandonar definitivamente su soñado viaje. El riesgo aumenta cuando uno se…

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