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:

Today we will have a meeting with a woman from a free school that is to be founded here, and then we got to an arts exhibition /vernissage where Sara, one of the gaia people does an installation.

Tomorrow and the day after there is a permaculture workshop also funded by the EU (same program) that we will participate in and also we want to meet Diana, our partner in the fundraising apply.

It could be quite interesting to have an exchange via this permaculture workshop as they are doing exactly what we are doing - just for one day: experimental selforganised education, going with a (big 30 people) bus to a community nearby to study the permaculture there.

We can tell about our tour within the workshop and compare how it works what they are doing and what we did

We have the unrealistic plan to visit about 10 more places in within 2 weeks on our way back to Germany - lets see how this can work out!

On the list:

maybe a donkey farm on the way to spain,

escanda, matavenero, lakabe,

millau and frayssinous

- and then again lyon (la friche) and bern (denkmal) to do diashows there

- and “the small anja”

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