Tag: cyprus

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?

Exploring the mountains of northern Cyprus and Rosinante refused to let me in again (April 2023)

After exploring so much in the southern part I thought it would be time to explore more of the northern part. It was very beautiful and even though it had never been very cold on Cyprus, it felt like a real spring.

One day, after a hike, I was very tired but managed to fill up the fresh water tanks of Rosinante and made it to the supermarket. After that, I started searching for a new place to live in the mountains of northern Cyprus but I was not so lucky. It took more than an hour to find a nice spot and I felt super hungry when I finally found that spot.

So I got out of the drivers cabin and headed back to the door of the cabin on Rosinante’s back. When I put the key in the lock and tried to turn it, nothing happened. I tried different approaches but still: the door won’t open. I was tired, hungry, and the sun was burning, but I could not go in.

Luckily I had just put my groceries in the front and so I had a little snack in the shadow of a tree. After that I tried again to open Rosinante’s hatch, but had no luck. I called Benno, the super friendly engineer who had built the cabin and all her sisters and brothers. He had never heard about a case like this but in the end, together, we figured a way out how I could get in. So, I did it. I broke into my own home.