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.

an enthusiatic hello from porto

we had a great permaculture workshop today and a very nice workshop / exchange about skillsharing / tsolife / our tour, showing photos and telling about the places we visit and experience in general

also i had an inspiring talk with rita, about casa viva, why everything works here and about horaga, the educational project they are doing. also about legal forms and general perspectives and motivations…

casa viva is such an amazing place! people are so full of energy here, lots of workshops, from vegetarian cooking to scribus layouting to permaculture,  everyday there is lots of nice food and the kitchen party never ends (samba drumming on pots and whatever you can find to make noise !!)

recipy of Rita from gaia, workshop in casaviva

you need:

- dried soy pieces, big ones and fine ones

- onions

- garlick

- paprice

- laurel leaves

- chili

- olive oil

salt and other spices

- cellulose paper (special one for making sausages? )

- strings (to sew the cellulose paper)

- a needle

- cones (you can make them from small bottles if you dont have fitting ones)

- a smoking stove (a stove that has enouph space to hang something at the top inside)

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1. first you cut the cellulose paper into pieces and sew them on both ends with the string. one end you leave open to fill it and to knot it afterwards.

2. you put the soy into water and let it suck for about 2 hours

Hey Hello from Porto

We are in casa viva, a squat-looking social centre (privat owner) with lots of hackers in Porto, visiting the local group of gaia people and their friends in Porto…

We are here since 2 nights, after some very funny coincidences in Lisboa:

we met some friends of Carlos in a square who also wanted to go to Porto, went with them to the house they stayed at of a guy who is selling fully automatisised plant growing systems to restaurants so they can grow their own spices…  and then went with them to Porto, visiting the beautiful!! natural park of Sintra on the way and climbing over the wall of the Arabic castle there with a beautiful zoological garden forest around, which is a tourist attraction that they normally charge 11 euro to enter.

We stay here until monday and until then we got many things to do: