2012 – Ecotopia Biketour

Melon melon! Sweet memories from the summer…

alice January 18, 2013 April 25, 2013

Here is the result of a few sessions joyfully reminiscing and picking my favourite few hundred photos (out of thousands) which were taken over our two and a half month journey. From my room here in Edinburgh the tales of adventure we had last summer seem a lot further away than I would like them to be, but seeing these has made them fresh again. Outside there is frost on the ground and it’s wonderful to be taken back to siesta times when it was so hot in the middle of the day that cycling was just not an option! Sometimes it’s hard…

Susannes – The Ecotopia Biketour song

taborda October 22, 2012 October 22, 2012

Susannes – Bike Tour from Susannes on Vimeo. Sexy legs on tiny tires fight the wind conquire the mountains get your freedom trhough degrowth fun and fight we enjoy them both. Lost in time in the oldest world we won’t cry the end of oil homeless, dirty, skipping food little price for feeling good From transgenics to organic fight together never give up from nuclear to solar panels tale is leaving push the pedals push your pedals! Consomateurs pas naissance on voyage sans essence nous roulons à vélo sans soucis et sans boulot trencant fronteres al nostre pas sense pressa…

Party: Ecotopia Biketour

taborda October 13, 2012 October 15, 2012

Summer 2012: two and half month on the road, 120 people joined to peddle more than 3000 kilometer between Barcelona and Venezia and visited more than 40 different projects and campaigns related to Degrowth. Want to find out about what happened on the Biketour this summer? Want to meet with fellow bike-crazy people? Want to be reunited with people that you shared part of the journey of over 3000km? Want to find out about amazing degrowth projects on our trail from Barcelona to Venice? Want to join an evening of full-hearted celebrations? Come to the RAI in Barcelona next Friday…

Bologna to Venice

Ben September 29, 2012 September 29, 2012

We had been intending to reach Bologna on Thursday for the special market that takes place at the squat we’d be staying at but we had changed our plans and arrived on Friday instead. As luck would have it, there was another of these special martkets taking place elsewhere in Bologna and we mananged to get a couple of people to come over to tell us all about it. Basically these markets bring together consumers and local non certified but nether-the-less organic small farmers. They mostly make use of squatted spaces for the markets and are part of a growing…