Hiphonest: ethical fashion in Amsterdam
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog | 2 Comments »A cross in a circle, passing by on a bag, a jacked or a pair of jeans. Ethical fashion brand Kuyichi made it quite far in The Netherlands! In Berlin we had to suffer to find more than one kind ...
Organic cotton farming in Uganda
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Blog | 10 Comments »In Northern Uganda, in the region around Lira, there is as much as 27 thousand farmers (!!!) growing organic cotton. The farmers are united in a cooperative with chosen representatives. The organic cotton project here is started by and running ...
Uganda: the reality of production
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »After the workshop in Kenya I took a bus from Nairobi to Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The trip with Akamba bus took about fifteen hours. It was relatively comfortable, compared to Matatu traveling, where you sit in a small ...
Retour / Detour
Monday, June 4th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 2 Comments »Since we moved upwards through Italy we feel that our journey is getting closer to it's end. Meanwhile we recognized that this way of living hjas been very valuable to us, and we hope that we will be able to ...
United colors of Shqipëria
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 1 Comment »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 ...
Hos Geldiniz!
Friday, April 27th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 2 Comments »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 ...