2016 – Page 5 – Ecotopia Biketour

Queer Festival Fun!!

CharlieCharlie August 7, 2016 August 29, 2016

Two days cycling from Vilnius, we reached Žeimiai Manor House, location of Sapfo fest, the first fixed date that we made in the biketour calander when we were planning biketour 2016. Sapfo-fest is the first independent community-initiated Festival in the Baltics, which seeks to connect and empower the queer community, fight prejudice and discrimination, as well as increase awareness and visibility of queers in Lithuania and the rest of Eastern Europe – and has now happened for the fifth time. A lot of the biketour participants were super exicited for this festival. We arranged to arrive a day early to help…

Biketour in Vilnius

Candid August 5, 2016 August 5, 2016

Next, to Vilnius. Back to cycling (legally..) on the roads! We first camped in the back of park in the centre, but it was quite exposed – it was below a tourist viewpoint, and now the scruffy cyclists with their tents, small dog, and giant pots were the newest tourist interest. We also got woken up by Italian segway tour guides with megaphones. The next day, whilst half the group huddled under the tarp from the rain (apparently it had actually followed us from Belarus) another person in the biketour met a friendly local who offered us space in his flat!…

Pozdrowienia z Litwy

ola August 1, 2016 September 8, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Polish. 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 dojeżdża już nad morze. Dzisiaj zamierzamy dojechać do Rusne, skąd prom zabierze nas i rowery na Mierzeję Kurońską. Mamy zamiar przejechać długość mierzei i wskoczyć na prom do Kłajpedy, gdzie zostaniemy kilka dni. Ostatnio mało się dzieje na naszym blogu, bo dużo się dzieje w realu! Po Wilnie Ecotopia ruszyła pomagać przy jedynym w Europie Wschodniej festiwalu queerowym, Sapfo odbywającym się w Zemei 40 km od…

Out of Belarus: Rest days on the lake

Candid July 27, 2016 July 19, 2016

Apparently leaving Belarus is easier than entering – a quick passport check (we’re not even sure that our registration stamps on our migrations cards were checked in the end!) and a cycle though the checkpoints without even any questions about the dog in the trailer! After a day of continuous rain, the sun was out as we crossed the border in Lithuania, in greeting to the wet cyclists. We cycled a short distance from the border, and found beautiful lake. Due to a shorter visa for Belarus, we had a couple of days to spare before our next appointments, so we…