Looking forward….

Hey, It’s not long now till the biketour wheels out of Berlin to adventures on and off the road, and I thought it might be nice to write a brief post as I’m getting ready! :) I heard about Ecotopia biketour last year around April, and decided to go later on in the summer that year after seeing all the lovely photos and experiences on the 2012 blog. Here’s one from a border crossing to go with this year’s theme: I hadn’t travelled around much with my bike in Europe before, and had never been touring, so I wasn’t sure…

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Melon melon! Sweet memories from the summer…

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…

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Susannes – The Ecotopia Biketour song

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…

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Bologna to Venice

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…

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