Blog – Sayfa 21 – Ecotopia Biketour

Biketour in Kampetorp

Candid Aralık 12, 2015 April 10, 2016

Maalesef, biz Türkçesine bu metni tercüme değil. 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. At the end of July, the Biketour stayed for two days at Kampetorp, an eco-village in Sweden really close to the southern border of Norway. Getting there was a nightmare – steep gravel roads at about 10°C and heavy rain. But when we arrived we were welcomed to stay in a cosy little red house heated by a fire stove. Kampetorp is a clearing in the middle of the…

Wildcamping in Sweden – with hot showers and a sauna

Candid Aralık 8, 2015 December 8, 2015

Maalesef, biz Türkçesine bu metni tercüme değil. 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. On the way from Broddetorp to Loo Östang, the scouts had difficulties finding a good sleeping spot. In the end they chose a lawn next to a football pitch just outside a village. No one was around to ask whether it’s a good idea to camp there, and our Biketour experience tells us that wild-camping really close to a village without asking for permission is normally not a…

Biketour in Broddetorp

Candid Aralık 4, 2015 December 2, 2015

Maalesef, biz Türkçesine bu metni tercüme değil. 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. Broddetorp is a small village of about 140 inhabitants somewhere between Vättern and Vänern, the two big lakes of Sweden. The Biketour spent the night from the 22nd to the 23rd of July there. Broddetorp got our attention when we were looking for anti-mining groups in the area (there is a lot of uranium and rare earth mining projects going on in that region). We found a group called Nej…

Biketour visiting JAK member’s bank

Candid Aralık 2, 2015 December 2, 2015

Maalesef, biz Türkçesine bu metni tercüme değil. 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. On the 22nd of July, Biketour passed by Skövde on the way from Bossgården to Broddetorp. Skövde is a small town of 35 000 inhabitants somewhere in the middle between Vättern and Vänern, the two big lakes of Sweden. It happens to be the place where JAK Medlemsbank, a members-owned alternative bank, was founded in 1965 based on the concept of JAK Denmark, which has existed since 1931. Knowing some…

Links #2 – Vio.Me blockade, COP21, bicycle repair man

Candid Kasım 30, 2015 December 16, 2015

Maalesef, biz Türkçesine bu metni tercüme değil. 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. Vio.Me successfully blocked and postponed the auction where the factory is supposed to be sold. Vio.Me is a soap factory in Thessaloniki that was squatted by its workers in 2011 and has since been run as a cooperatively and democratically self-organised organic soap factory. We were there with the Biketour in 2014. In Paris, the COP21 (the 21st Climate Change conference of the UN) has started. It will officially last…

A thank you note

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 Ekim 19, 2015 October 19, 2015

This is a lengthy goodbye letter that I hadn’t had time to write before I left the tour and a thank you note that has been brewing in my head for the last two months and now it has turned into an emotional account of how I felt during and after the bike tour. I didn’t get enough of Ecotopia goodness and the regret over the fact that I could have stayed longer and didn’t, still haunts me. I have no photos to accompany the text but following Charlie’s blog post I’ll attach a song too – one that’s way…

d-d-d-d-d-DUMPSTER DIVE

CharlieCharlie Eylül 28, 2015 October 11, 2015

Maalesef, biz Türkçesine bu metni tercüme değil. 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. ( This blog post is set to the sound of this song – https://zdradapalki.bandcamp.com/track/dumpster-diva ) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dumpster+Diva – Dumpster Diva definition Noun: A gorgeous dumpster diver possessing excellent diving skills. A teacher and leader in the movement against waste. Someone who brings the truth of horrific waste to the forefront of the movement against poverty. Usually has a side-kick with her so she can carry more and dive safely…

Photogallery – Oslo to Stockholm /edition 4/

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 Eylül 2, 2015 September 2, 2015