Welcome to the skillsurfers blog! Currently we are working on a film about the tour and on our brochure. And keep doing skillsharing and handdrawing sessions every once in a while (as you can see on the pictures )

We did not find the time yet to sort articles about the projects we visited, and will do so soon. Til then, feel free to flow around in this blog, see photos and find out about lots of alternative places in southwestern Europe. You can use the tags (on the right side, scroll down) to find your way through our trip and topics you are interested in! Or just use the timeline (on the left)

If you wanna know what is happening in Germany right now: Check our new wiki at https://we.riseup.net/tsolife+skillsurfers and also see our brochure pages gallery at https://we.riseup.net/schildkroete/skillsurfers-brochure-gallery+37152

Hello from Berlin

The tour is not dead already - now the serious part starts

We want to make a film (Anna), collect and evaluate data (Sam) and make brochures and exhibitions (Anja) - and we need your help!

You can find uptodate infos at our new wiki at https://we.riseup.net/tsolife+skillsurfers
If you want to participate in the process, please go to we.riseup.net, register and join the group tsolife and then skillsurfers.

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So, que pasa in Germany?

I made first experiences with evaluation of our tour, which means: I tried to share my skills and experiences with people who were not on the trip.

Our first info event in Munich was a bit chaotic as usual , but nice we did it. Our challenge was top try to make parents and grandparents, friends and other people from Munich understand what we did in the last 8 months… we showed some phots and then talked a bit about some topics that we learned about while travelling.

Am 26.6. um 18.00 findet in München vorraussichtlich im Eine Welt Haus (www.einewelthaus.de) unsere erste Infoveranstaltung zur Tour statt. Geplant ist, über die Hintergründe der Tour (skillsharing Netzwerke) aufzuklären, Fotos zu zeigen, Fragen zu beantworten, und zu einigen spezielleren Themen, mit denen wir uns unterwegs beschäftigt haben, etwas zu erzählen.

Anna über Gesundheit, Ernährung, die Lebensmittelindustrie und ökologisches Bewusstsein, Sam über verschiedene Modelle von alternativen Selbstorganisationsstrukturen, zB Food-Coops, Anbaukooperativen u.ä. und ich über Permakultur.

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We will do our first info event about the tour on the 26 of June, in Munich propably in the “Eine Welt Haus” (”One world house”). We plan to explain backrounds about the tour (skillsharing networks), show photos and answer questions and also tell about some special topics which we learned about while travelling.

Anna will tell about health, nutrition, the food industry and ecological consciousness, Sam about models of alternative selforganised structures, like food-coops, agriculture cooperatives, etc and me about permaculture

we are back in germany since a few days and started working on sorting contacts, photos, preparing exhibition and brochures… and preparing the brueckenschlaeger meeting in early july.

I live in good old soma house where the tour started 8 months ago for a month, sam is at his parents place, we meet anna in a few days. my sister celebrates her 18th birthday next weekend and in a month  i will do another move, up to börlin zitttttty

i am sitting in denk:mal in bern, switzerland again, where we were already on our way to france last year… (see other blog article) and we will leave to germany today

people are speaking kind of “german” again , the city seems like nothing new and the people are the same as last time and the same as anywhere else somehow - but this is my own feelings and nothing objective i guess…

i am confused as i start to really feel: this game is over  NOW

no more travelling, no more new adventures, from now on we know everywhere we go, we know people, we have concrete plans

an important phase of my life ends and i feel a bit sad, but more happy and looking forward to having a lot of time and space for creating many nice things of the impressions and materials we collected …

When we went to Larzac it was more like a coincidence, than actually planned. We had no idea what is was about, we just had the name of a small community project, somewhere in Larzac.

Sam had just had „that feeling“… so we went.

What we found after searching for it for hours of drivin and walking round was: a very small village, some sheep, and a church. We found nothing really interesting there, except the sticker of a „free radio larzac“ on the back of a car that was parked there. The sticker didnt really fit with the village. The old, thick walls, the smell of centuries…

We didn’t have another idea what to do, so we followed the signs to the church, and entered into the old, moisty, dark building. What we found was: an exhibition, and a lot of information material about Larzac.

We are back in France, at the moment in Millau in the pyrrhenees back in the country of mc-do-wifi-stealing

We went about 2000 km in the last 2 weeks and will go on in that speed to be back in munich SOON, spending the time in the car with brainstorming for brueckenschlaeger conference and the company/collective and our visions in general …

We spent 2 nights and an amazing day in escanda, a beautiful centro social in the mountains near Pola de Lena in Asturias. The (our impression: very well-working) collective exists since about 6 years and consists of a varying number of about 12 (?) people from different countries. Their main focusses are to built food/growing cooperatives and education (this is where they got most of their money from –> english teaching camps for kids, ecological education, etc)

we are travelling really quick now

we left portugal and are back in spain

i am writing from escanda in northern spain, asturias, yesterday we visited matavenero in galicia.

both places are beautiful and inspiring… later more hopefully

but maybe no more photos til we are back in germany

greetz, anja

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Sitting in Matavenero, Galicia, northern Spain, 1000m high above sea level, and it is about 10 o’clock in the morning, on a sunny day in may. I could forget about all these facts and figures enjoying that great view over the mountains, the small individual-style, colourful houses, the horses, the huge dome which was built for community events and the childrens toys lying around in the green grass.

I can hear birds singing, all kinds of insects whiring and buzzing, chicken gaggeling, and some reggae music from somewhere near the center of he village. I can smell flowers, and I feel a bit like a tourist.

some photos from the permaculture workshop of the project “arte de viver”,

which rita held in the casa viva on the first day, giving a theory introduction and showing the garden of casa viva -

and visiting a community called “quinta cabeza de cabo” 150 km south of porto on the second day.

the project was financed by eu like ours and they went with a bus and about 30 people (including old people, children, etc) to the community to see the gardens and how people live there - like our tour just with a bigger and more mixed group and just for 1 day.