valencia

We started our further journey from the project Massia La Torre in the late afternoon,
it was nearly sunset , the setting sun covered the sky in beautiful colours and the first stars were visible.
it became soon dark and we drove into the night,
we didnt have any further place to stay, we just knew that we want to go to valencia for some days before we go to the next projects.
the groupprocesses in la torre were so strong and we felt the changes in our group and some things became so clear.
we decided to stay with the group a few days somewhere and reflecting the situation happened at the last place,
to become more clear what we want, and how we present our self and our project in the next place we will visit.

nearly valencia we stopped at a big shoppingcenter, to buy some things, check the dumpsters and reorientate.
we got in nice conversation with a hippie and his van, who selled on the place there some hippiestuff
we asked him for a nice place at the beach to stay over night and he gave us a tip, just few hundred meters from the shoppingmall.
we went there and after some nice musicsession and night-walks at the seaside, we went to bed.

at the morning we woke up in the sunshine, listening to nice music, and had a meeting about the next things we want to do.
after that we went to the saturn and bought some walkie-talkies that we have radio-contact between the vans.
in the midday sun we drove into the big city.

after long circulating in the city we found a nice parkingplace beside a huge road at the edge of the city.
nearby was a shoppingmall where we went to use the internet and check our contacts to know where to go next.
as we came back we recognized that someone broke into the black van,
the inside was totally chaos, somone messed everything up.
peters mp3-player and henriks phone got stolen, and the thiefs distroyed the door-locks of the front and side door.
after this shock and some cleanings, we went to the city to use an internetcafe, and search for a sikh-temple.
the people in the internetcafe gave us directions to one,
after long internetsession, we went back to the busses.
on the way we saw this huuuge hightec-future-buildings, we felt like in a star-wars-movie and kicked hundred years in future, everything looked like spaced-out-future-city, amazing and shocking at the same time.

we decided not to stay at the place where we got robbed,
we moved with the buses into the coming night to find the sikh-temple and a place to sleep.
after long driving without knowing where to go… we reached the area of the temple.. checked it out and recognized that it was too late. the people in the internetcafe told us that there is day and night all the time a big fest about a special holyday, but it was closed.
so we followed the flow, which leaded us to a kind of backyard of some very old buildings. there was a meaddow and a camera protected castle
we decided to stay there over night, had nice cooking.

we woke up to any unknown time at the next day.
the sun was shining very bright and it was nice warm.
an very old german guy visited us in our nice place. he was the farmer of the fields beside,
i had a long conversation with him, about the history of spain, how the city and the people in the last centuries changed.
about europe and the EU, and that gipsies stealing all the time from this fields, and how hard it is in this time to be a farmer who produces for the market.
after we had a nice breakfast and began to reorganize and clean our vans while nice music in the sunshine.
me and peter was checking out the internetcafe and had a long session, where we actualisized our contacts and map and checking the tour-mails.
and printed out the questionary we optimized.
while the day some people went to the temple, had shower and food,

in the evening we gathered to a meeting,
discussed how we want to present our selfs at the next place,
on our internetsession we found out we have an invitation from a nice eco-project near valencia, but we were not able to stay there.
so we just went there for one day.
so we prepaired what we want to do there and what to ask,
and i felt real professioinal ,
the motivation of the people was very good,

in the late evening we left our nice place and drove out of the city, to go so near as possible to this place we wanted to visit the next day, that we have enough time to find it and dont come to late.

i felt the first time on this tour that we have a “job to do”..
felt like a buisnissman prepairing for his buisnessmeeting at the next morning,
amazing feeling, full of motivaion and energy.

we drove to the city “shiva” and searched for a place outside in the countryside,
it was very dark, so we just drove to a big place beside the road in the nature and camped there.
in the moonlight we saw the dark hills around us and the wide land on the other side.

i felt that we are very close to the place we will visit,
and went tired and happy to bed.

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