between Tartu and Tallinn

  Here some late impressions from the last bit:     In Estonia some people build houses and boats with local material and traditional knowledge…   … use small and big rocket stoves…          … and transform trash to art.   We cycled under wild skies …   … drove past buildings from different ages that are still in use …   and found our “Kôo” on a open field or a gym hall to pass the night.       Yes. Sometimes it felt like a “donquixotery” fighting omnipresent car-culture. Therefore we would like to express our special…

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Hippiefestival with strange views

Hello dear reader! Lukas is reporting from Latvia: A festival was recommended to us, a gathering of different eco-communities in Mazirbe at the seaside. Sounds not bad, we thought at spontaneaosly rearranged our schedule. This detour fitted very well, because we anyways wanted to cycle more. We were on a biketour after all! We arrived thursday evening. All of us were very happy to meet again Stas from Radi Vidi Pats. He helped out to organize this festival. Then 2 men arrived, of whose one of us welcomed us effusivly with “Hello brothers and sisters!” and intimate hugs without being…

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

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.…

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