Brčko, the Balkans’ ‘Free City’?

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. We left the common pastures of Croatia and again skirted the border between Croatia and Bosnia, finally crossing for a lunch spot at the border control point. Here an Italian man stopped to wish us well on our journey, only to then return 10 minutes later with a huge watermelon and bottles of fizzy pop; it was a warm…

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Brücken über Grenzen? Grenzen unter Brücken.

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. “Brücken bauen” – nichts könnte eigentlich sinnbildlicher dafür stehen, Grenzen zu überwinden. Doch was uns auf unserer Reise immer wieder auffällt, ist die Funktion von Brücken als Grenzen. Besonders entlang der Sava wird uns klar, was das heißt: Ganze Städte, die früher mal eine Einheit waren und sich in einem Staat befanden, sind heute durch nur noch eine Brücke…

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A Common Treasury for all…

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Through a contact at Green Action Zagreb, our next destination was to meet activist fighting for the right to common pastures in Croatia. We made camp in their common field, and took a wash in the Sava – some of us even swimming across to Bosnia on the other side! The next morning we met some of the people…

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Museum of Local Life and the stone flower for the victims of Jasenovac

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. After wild camping near to the the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, we set off next morning, despite the rain, for our 70 km cycling day along the Sava river. En route a few of us took the opportunity to visit a local social anthropology/ ethnographic museum in someone’s back garden. Without any common language we were able to communicate…

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Green Action Zagreb and the BIC POP!

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. .In Zagreb we were warmly hosted at Green Action, Zelena Akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia, who welcomed us with a party with some of the local activists dealing with local migration and environmental struggles.  Over the few days there we held an info exchange with local migration activists, visited two of the nearby politically active squats/ free…

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Screengrabs of Slovenia scenery

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. I am leaving the bike tour today to travel on my own for two weeks. It has been an interesting journey, there were amazing memories such as dancing to a band called Bi Patriot? in a slovenian town near the Austrian border, playing bumper cars without electricity, many Radlers, interesting workshops and more. Anyway, I am uploading a screenshot…

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Grenzen bürokratischer Ausrüstung und Bewegungsfreiheit

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Da haben wir sie: Unsere eigene erste einschneidende (Staats-)Grenz-Erfahrung auf der Tour! Nicht, dass es in groesseren Gruppen nicht zu erwarten waere, dass irgendwer irgendwie geartete “falsche” Papiere dabei hat und beim Grenzuebertritt Probleme hat. Was nur verwunderte, war die Art des heute aufgetretenen Problems: Es handelte sich naemlich nicht um vergessene, verlorene oder nur noch wenige Tage gueltige…

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Ecotopia Biketour in KLEINE ZEITUNG

Sorry this entry is not available in this language For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. A Newspaper Article about us just appeared in the local pages of KLEINE ZEITUNG: http://www.kleinezeitung.at/kaernten/voelkermarkt/3385125/radtour-europa-stopp-leppen.story

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