first things first: GIRLS and TOM:  WE ARE MISSING YOU! COME BACK!

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no photos still, but just a short update from a 3 euro per hour internet cafe in orgiva, near granada

we , that is anna, sam, peter and me (the people who are in the tour since the beginning) set up an “elite” as aris (r.i.p.) told us to do all the time

and did a huge reflection on what we did and what we want to do in the next months, setting up basic visions for the next months and concrete ideas and agreements on how to organise within our group

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for the moment we decided we want to set our homebase in beneficio

(a half bought and half squatted “open-space”-Rainbowfamily-ecovillage in a magic nice valley)

hola gente

we are now in Las Negras now , checked out a crazy witches farm mill (?) of an old lady (wwoofers place), the hippiebeach “San Pedro” (nomads place) and the monoculture-greenhouse landscape of Campohermoso (immigrants place)…

We are going to Orgiva near Granada tomorrow with 2 new people we collected at that witch tower…

Darta and Ieva left to Tarifa to get some distance from the group and we will meet them in 1 or 2 weeks again, Bari already hitchhiked to Granada and we will meet him there again in some days

Anna, Peter, Sam and me will take some days time to reflect everything that happened on this tour up to now and make plans for the future

We decided that we want to try to make some money and an info point on the dragon festival that is in Lanjaron (near Orgiva also) by the end of March … Chill + Skills, Chai and Chapati

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So many texts in this blog about the world we would like to lie in – but sometimes you just have to write about the world you dont want. Some impressions from the monocultural tomato plantations / greenhouse deserts of the region of Almeria

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red they are

red and juicy and nice

and full of Pesticides

two times a day the truck comes here to bring tons of tomatos and just put them here into the desert

why?

nobody can tell

ask “the system”

Paulas goats -and some crazy travellers- are happy about those red mountains

in the ghetto of Campohermoso an immigrant child gets very angry when I try to take a photo of his home

a little shack on the side of a big street where the tomato trucks are drivin through very quickly

Hey, Hola

after spending 3 (!) weeks in this MAGIC place, DYNAMICALLY HANGIN ROUND, and learning lots of amazing things ((had a soap making workshop, were baking lots of bread, …) we are finally leaving with the same number of people in a different constellation (8 - Henrik - Nacho + Anna + Bari = 8 again !) to a wwofing farm nearby here and after that to San Pedro hippie playa.

The white bus left today, Sam and me are hanging out in the internet for another day and go to Spanish class tonight and then follow with black Betty tomorrow

Also we set ourselves a deadline for being in Granada in 2 weeks latest

We had an inspiring meeting about our aims and goals, our organisations, what we are up to and what is the difference in between us and some normal bunch of hippie travellers…

First of all - this is a basic recepy which comes from the community Lakabe in Navarra, Spain.
We learned it in Masia la Torre, a project located in the beautiful mountains northwest of Valencia.

Before you can actually start baking the bread, you need to create a sourdough which takes up to nine days.
You basically only need a hand full of flour and luke-warm water (which should not be warmer than 40 degrees),
a more sophisticated version wants to add a bit of honey and -very important for an unknown reason :)- one hazelnut!
You store this mixture at a warm place and kneed it from time to time. Every day you add a new hand-full of flour and mix it in the dough with some luke-warm water. You do so for about nine days. What you then have is the basic sourdough, the so-called motherdough.

hey lovely reader

I am sitting in the Betti-Bus in Sorbas and writing the next update from Los Molinos de Rio Aguas…

Ayuntamento free internet is closed for some reason and we are trying hard to find other free possibilities of getting online…

Our favourite free-WIFI-spot also doesnt work today for some reason so we gotta find other solutions…

the others are hanging out in a bar now with WIFI… buying beer and coffee and stuff

But there’s nothing we wouldn’t do to get in the net!!

(weird kind of ecohippies… really… no shower sharing swimming place with wild turtles -but WIFI must be!)

We (that is -for the statistics- 6 people: 3 boys, 3 girls, from 4 different countries) are still in Los Molinos del Rio Aguas, in the water with river place - which is called like that as el rio aguas is the only river in this area that has water all year and not only in spring.