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Welcome to the Ecotopedia - the wiki of the ecotopia biketour

Roll up! Roll up! It’s the great Ecotopia Biketour 2008 extravaganza!

Where? Bulgaria and Turkey (from Sofia to Sarikum)

When? 2nd July - 14th August

What? The Ecotopia Biketour is a mobile community that appears for several weeks each year in a different part of Europe and provides an environmentally acceptable way to reach the Ecotopia gathering (http://eyfa.org/ecotopia, http://www.ecotopiagathering.org/) or simply to cycle in interesting places. Along the way we meet local groups working on ecological or social issues and support their activities.

Why? Learning new things, keeping fit, seeing new places, promoting cycling, meeting new people, supporting local environmental groups...

Who? If you’re interested in environmental issues, willing to take an active part in the group, and you have a bicycle, then Ecotopia Biketour might be just the thing for you. Biketour is suitable for people of most cycling abilities, and accommodation is usually in tents. Participants are responsible for tasks such as preparing meals, washing up and since we don’t have a support vehicle, we also carry our own equipment in bike trailers. Participants pay a small participation fee graded according to country of residence and are expected to take part in decision-making during the tour.

For more information:

Search this wiki with the box on the right side of every page

Check our website at http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net

Join the biketour mailing list at: https://lists.eyfa.org/mailman/listinfo/biketour

Or e-mail yolanda (at) ecotopiabiketour.net

extra remark:

• If you are interested in joining the biketour it is wise to check now if you should arrange a new passport (your passport should be valid for at least six months from the date you enter Turkey) and/or visa (can take up to 30 days to arrange). Informative websites to check about visa are: Ministery of Foreing Affairs Turkey: http://www.mfa.gov.tr/sub.en.mfa?cc4e437c-6769-4d79-9017-10b63c651224 Ministery of Foreign Affairs Bulgaria: http://www.mfa.bg/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4794&Itemid=243 Ministery of Foreign Affairs Serbia: http://www.mfa.gov.yu/Visas/VisasR.htm

Don't forget to check if you need visa (or passport, instead of id-card) for the countries you will pass on the trip to Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey if you travel by train/bus/car/ bike… If you have any questions concerning Visa arrangements or if you need an invitationletter to get one, please send an email to yolanda (at) ecotopiabiketour.net

Information

• What is bt?
• Frequently asked questions
• Route
• Map
• How to join
• Background info on local struggles in Bulgaria and Turkey which Biketour 2008 can support

Organizing next biketour

This is a self-organized tour!

No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993! In 2008 we will cycle Bulgaria and Turkey - here are some ideas about the route and map.

The following is old text (with some fixing for now):
Does this appeal to you? and do you want to do your share of bt-organizing?
The best is you to come to the nextmeeting, online or in real, to get an idea of the people and tasks, or browse through the meeting minutes. If you live next to it or know great places to visit, talk to Yolanda. We also compiled some texts about what bt is and how to organise biketour and collected some nice ideas about improving BT.
Right now we are also working on the website. And where the hell is our stuff?
You can also help us online, even if you do not live next to the route. We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to archive - to this wiki. Also the website needs doing: writing, designing and creating an ez-publish template.

Tasks

Please help with some of this:

• make up a slogan for Biketour 2008!!!!
  • Designers: we need a design/logo for flyers/stickers about Biketours intensions to spread during the Biketour. Besides this we need a design for this years t-shirts...
    • Brainstorm of ideas about improving BT

• Wiki organization
  • take care of moving old texts to here
    • You can learn on How_to_edit_Wiki for contributing
      • update this same list, maybe at this page Org Tasks ?
        • Link this orphan pages: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages
          • Collaborate on the route drafting
            • reading, writing and collaborating on the profiles of places to visit
              • Translation
                • Help translate by reading How to translate

• Website
  • ez-publish knowledge welcomed

Last years tours

2007

Main Page of this wiki during 2007 Route of Biketour 2007 Map of Biketour 2007

2006

diary 06, booklet 06, pressrelease06 eng, outreachmail participants 06 eng, traveltips to lithuania and poland, short route description 06, flyer06 eng

2008

• lessons learned
  • checklist for national/local organisers
    • checklist for international organisers
      • introduction to Biketour: usefull for organisers & volunteers

Archive

camp fire recipes

texts about bt - well this is intended to be a collection of all texts about bt we have here - but who knows if everyone thinks of mentioning her text here ?

the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova: [[1]]

the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german: [[2]]