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 | 2 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 | 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 ...
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 ...
The road to Istanbul
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | No Comments »Without any money we entered Bulgaria by night. A lot of gates and checks, and then in nomansland a small office man: `Pay 5 Euro`. For what`? Frans asked. Again: `Five Euro´s`. Ok, we did not have a single Eurocent. ...
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, ...
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 ...
Leaving Berlin full spead
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 Posted in Grass Routes on Tour | 3 Comments »We worked our asses of to be able to leave the day we planned, and still we had to arrange paperwork on Sunday morning. In all the hurry Frans forgot our passports and about 700 euros cash at some Arabic ...