Green Space Traveling?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment | No Comments »Okay, I'm starting to get a bit used to all the eco-luxury lifestyle hyping, and if you anyway can't resist big cars, why not have a "green hummer"? Or if you anyway want to waste your money on parties, fly ...
Green caravan dreams, or how Berlin lost its mobile homes
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Berlin lost a bit of it’s rebellious soul again. Since the 1st of January, most remarkable vehicles are considered illegal because of their high emissions. Until recently, the streets of Berlin were filled with old caravans, self-made buses, hippie vans, ...
United colors of Shqipëria
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | No Comments »Shqipëria? Wait a minute, isn´t that this poor country somewhere in Africa… What, is it really in Europe? Albania, also called Shqipëria, is one of these countries you hardly hear anything about, though it is interesting visiting it! From Macedonia ...
Moving on
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | No Comments »We left Turkey overland, with a bit of pain in the heart. It has been such a good country to travel in, with its hospitality, the surprisingly delicious local dishes, more or less unspoiled countryside, the small men on their ...
Making soap and other projects
Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 2 Comments »One day we visited an alternative beach resort nearby. Between the olive trees, small holiday houses lead you to the beach. In between there is small pieces of land where all kinds of vegetables are grown organic. Just before the ...
Tourist pollution
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 4 Comments »We traveled mainly through inland Turkey and had a lot of welcomes. When we arrived at the coast, we had a hard time to adjust. The whole coast was polluted with large scale ugly tourist flat resorts! The atmosphere changed ...
Hos Geldiniz!
Friday, April 27th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »We left Istanbul and traveled some days on the countryside. We visited an old mosque on a hilltop today, a beautiful place without any of the sultan glamour of the Istanbul mosques. Just round bowls, floors stuffed with carpets, old ...
Culture shocks from Istanbul
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »It is quite a kick driving into Istanbul with your own van around 4 o clock pm! Five track roads without street markings, all kinds of vehicles crisscrossing wherever they can go. We got fuzzed around and wondered how big ...
Entering a tropical Novi Sad
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 4 Comments »From Istria we had a long trip to Novi Sad. They are building a highway through the mountains between Rijeka and Zagreb all at once, just everywhere there are huge bridges and tunnels built, and we wondered who finances this, ...
Close to paradise
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »From Rakitni we traveled to the south of Istria, Kroatia, and visited the Eco Art Centar EIA, which is located close to the village Bale. We arrived around sunset and we were immediately amazed by the place. You can really see ...
Geocaching adventures
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »You liked treasure hunting when you where small, but now you think you are too grown up for it? All over the world there are treasures hidden, in nature areas and in the middle of cities, on the weirdest locations. ...
Wilderness experience
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »Nature in the alps is so tres magnefique! It is a wonderful landscape to experience wilderness and come closer to yourself and to heaven. Not for nothing people greet here with `Grüss Got!´. High in the mountains you feel the ...
Brothers and sisters of the rainbow
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »In the morning we climbed the hill to the hippie camp. On top of the hill was a tipi standing, with a little fire still burning, and around it people sleeping or just waking up. In the shades down we ...
Travelling for sustainability
Saturday, April 7th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »One moment we decided to go, just like that. We wished our trip to be something of a research, a learning journey, a documentation of projects and ideas on sustainability. But then we asked ourselves: isn´t driving a car to ...