After wild camping near to the the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, we set off next morning, despite the rain, for our 70 km cycling day along the Sava river. En route a few of us took the opportunity to visit a local social anthropology/ ethnographic museum in someone’s back garden. Without any common language we were able to communicate through hands-on demonstrations of some of the tools and equipment from the owner’s lifetime. The museum contained hundreds of examples of D.I.Y handmade crafts and tools used for creating cloth from plants, furniture without fixings, embroidery and fabrics from 4 generations…

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.In Zagreb we were warmly hosted at Green Action, Zelena Akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia, who welcomed us with a party with some of the local activists dealing with local migration and environmental struggles.  Over the few days there we held an info exchange with local migration activists, visited two of the nearby politically active squats/ free shop, and made full use of the in-house DIY bike kitchen at Green Action. . . . There some of us also took to the streets, to ask some of the locals or people who would talk to us, their view…

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I am leaving the bike tour today to travel on my own for two weeks. It has been an interesting journey, there were amazing memories such as dancing to a band called Bi Patriot? in a slovenian town near the Austrian border, playing bumper cars without electricity, many Radlers, interesting workshops and more. Anyway, I am uploading a screenshot of my facebook photos, the majority of them are from Slovenia, with the town of Maribor up the top, following the river from Maribor, and crossing the mountain pass into Austria and the view looking towards the Alps into Austria.

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