We are waiting for answers of some very interesting projects that we contacted… but they all dont answer… we were invited by a couchsurfer in Sevilla who is very active in the couchsurfing fundraising team though…

This is where we will leave to now and then make our way to Portugal… Time is running and I want to be back in Germany in a month!

Since we came back from Marocco I couldn’t find any good opportunity to upload photos…

Got some really nice ones, hope I will get a chance soon.

After leaving “projectoffroad” (because of money reasons mainly - a couchsurfer who decided he cannot take people for free any more but charges 5 euros a day now) we are staying near Tarifa now, on a free wagon place just at the beach.

It is very good that we came here: The space feels very free, the nature is amazing (!!!!), sun is shining, even thought here is lots of strong wind, the water is warm and nice and there is lots of donkeys, horses and surfers around.

The (techno) parties in the nights get a but stressing though after a while.

It was a good decision to let the bus at Florians place while we were in Marocco, as we heard from some other people who went to Marocco who let their bus in Tarifa that everything was stolen from them.

Apropos stolen: Peters computer, and with it all our tour photos were stolen from Toms bus

(Peter is having some kind of flewt collective with Tom now).

So we’ll have to recollect them from all the people who were on tour with us - as far as possible at least…

Barry left us some days ago and we finally said a last goodbye to Anna, who came with the white bus for a very last meeting, just for a night. She decided to go back to Germany and left with Kitty to Paris.

So now it is just Sam and me alone with Black Betty.

The wagon place we are staying at is amazing. It is owned by a privat person who bought it as he wanted to build a house there, and when he couldnt get permission opened it for travellers with their vans. It is the only place in the region where you can stay with a van without having problems with “Guardia Civil”.

We feel a bit more like normal tourists now but still we are the skillsurfers of course!

In the last days we inspired some other German people with books from our mobile library to build a compost toilet and a stove. Think I will tell this guy who is the most active and also doing a garden now some about permaculture. He showed me how to make nice rings out of coconuts and gave us some as a goodbye, in exchange against some “Einfälle statt Abfälle” (ideas instead of trash) leaflets.

He is from eastern germany and was running something like a youth club and a children festival there together with some friends - we had some exchange about founding associations, etc. He was also really interested in tsolife and brueckenschlaeger.

Some more stuff we did here:; For the first time of my life, I saw a place that I’d really define as a permacultural garden:

We wanted to visit the “La Semilla” community that we found in the eurotopia guide

which is very close to here.

Except a friendly dog and some cats nobody was there - and for this reason we couldnt find out more about the community itself and how they organise - but we had a walk around and were impressed by the variety of (edible) plants that grow at this beautiful place in the mountains (with great view on the sea). There is also lots of animals there, all kinds of insects and even a turtle in a small pond, that always dives down to hide away when you pass her wet home.

The garden really looks like a working ecosystem - anyhow there is lots of edible plants for humans and animals in it: lots of flowers, including passion flower (saw one the first time in my life!), a banana plant, oranges, salad, figues, grains, and so on… could also see some permacultural concepts I learned about in theory how they are practised (e.g. covering soil).

I still have lots of colourful impressions from Marocco in my head and everytime I look over to the African continent (that we can see from our parking place) I feel happy that this other world exists so close over there.

Some days ago we saw a sandstorm that came over from somewhere Algeria or Tunesia passing Marokko going direction to the Atlantik… covering the blue big island in yellow fog…

Yesterday I was laying in bed with headache and a bad diarrhea again, and hope that this is really just a question of water like these English people said and will not continue when I am back in germany…

I somehow feel that this project in the way it was for over half a year is really over now…

But I am not sad: yesterday I made a list with topics that I was busy with in all the different places with the different people, and realised that I really did learned A LOT!!!

I am so filled with impressions, inspirations and ideas, that I wouldnt even mind if now it will just be a tranquilo last part of the trip, with not so much happening…

I definetely learned to calm down a bit and just let things happen

Last 5 posts by anja

• Que pasa? - December 15th, 2009
• project update - July 22nd, 2009
• erste Infoveranstaltung in München / first info event in Munich - June 21st, 2009
• back in the land of rain - June 6th, 2009
• game over ... the last day - May 31st, 2009