Category: nature

Back in Turkey in the amazing Aladaglar National Park (May 2023)

I made it back to the mainland! But had only about three weeks to pass Turkey and reach Georgia because of the way the Turkish border control did calculate my visa days (see the last post).

I had kept in touch with Cindy and she had recommended that I visit the Aladaglar National Park and said the mountains there were amazing. And she was absolutely right!

Cyprus was super nice but to see again some real mountains was just mind-blowing. I loved it and the paid campsite in the national park had a super nice location.

I met July and Philip from Germany. They just traveled the Arabian peninsula in the camper van and were about to go east to Georgia. The same direction I was about to take. They told me that they would like to climb a mountain about 5000 meters high. Maybe in Turkey or maybe in Georgia. I never went up that far and loved the idea.

Welcome to the Teletubby-sustainability-garden (April 2023)

After the coast, I went to a very special garden: Umut’s garden.

At that little, colorful and vibrant place I met a lot of nice people and spent an awesome time with especially Amos, Sabriye, and Miquel. Together we planted, built, repaired, watered and had a lot of fun!

After spending such a good time with the talking circle community, it felt super nice to spend this  time at the garden with even more lovely people. I thought that maybe staying at a place like this and working directly in and with nature would be a nice thing to do.

We did so many funny and interesting things: Amos and I played around with the old clothes that were stored at that place and had such a silly time. Miquel and I did a huge minimization project: we took everything out of their camper, sorted it, reduced it and moved it back in. It was super fun. Who needs twelve different hammers?