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Ecotopia Biketour 2016 November 14, 2016 November 15, 2016

On the long cycling days… you might find yourself talking about anything and everything with your companions for the day. One topic that came up was STUFF. some people seemed to have just 2 bike bags and nothing else, some people have entire trailers for their pet (see past posts with the dog!) whilst some people seemed to be balancing half a dozen stuff sacks on their racks (ahem.. me). A few of us made comparive lists of our personal equipment and decided to publish them – this could either be read as a packing list guide (or, what not…

Tartu-City of apples -> How to do apple-recycling and more dumpsterdive

Ecotopia Biketour 2016 September 5, 2016 September 6, 2016

As we really enjoyed our time visiting lots of interesting places around Tartu, we decided to leave a new post to share some stuff we really considered to be worth mentioned here. We came to visit an selforganized garden-project, called “Vaksali kogukonna aed”. They are located at a nice spot next to the mainrailwaystation. The place is surrounded by an old building which was once used as police station and now works like kind of temporary use. Basicly they started growing and constructing the garden just at the beginning of this year but there´s already quite a lot to discover.…

Cita Abra, el viejo molino

Ecotopia Biketour 2016 August 14, 2016 August 26, 2016

Cita Abra es un proyecto naciente, es un molino de agua en construcción, en reconstrucción, en transformación… su estructura y su infra permiten albergar actividades y gente: grupos, compañías, colectivos, y biketours :) Por él fluye el agua, generando energía, lo que explica las incontables lámparas encendidas que nos esperaban en cada uno de esos oscuros y espaciosos cuartos de gruesos muros. (Mi favorita es la del baño, que misteriosamente siempre está desocupado cuando lo necesito, a pesar de que somos 14 ahora: el exacto doble de lxs que fuimos en Bielorusia). Cita Abra nació en…

Klaipeda – Liepaja / Radi Vidi Pats

Ecotopia Biketour 2016 August 13, 2016 August 29, 2016

Hello bike tour blog followers, this is Jacob typing. I joined the group a few days ago in Palanga. What follows is an account of my first few days cycling with the bike tour. After the stress of hauling a bike across Europe finding three scruffy looking cyclists stood by some trees in Palanga was a joy and the question ‘shall we cycle’ only had one answer. We cycled northwards along a bike path heading to the Latvian border. The path teemed with holiday goers on rented bikes or rolling skates. The absence of cars and presence of sun made…