Travelogue | Olivia Motley in Europe

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This travel blog started in 2017 as a way to document my adventures when I first moved to Europe.

As of November 2021 I am repurposing it to document the big trip Ben and I are making in our campervan, Louis. We are exploring alternative and sustainable living solutions in various permaculture farms and communities across southern Europe.

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Delving into historic anarchism

Many of you probably have an image of anarchism in your head from the mainstream media... it probably has something to do with Molotov...

Andalucía (full circle)

November 2022- May 2023 - July 2023 Nearly 8 years ago, I stepped off a boat from Morocco onto European soil for the first time as an...

catalunya- vidalia Co-op

July 2022- November 2022 The Discovery The first time I read about Vidalia, I had literal tears in my eyes... We really struggled to find...

Northern Spain- The promise land

Northern Spain has a grasp on me that will never quite let go... we spent most of our summer there, thank goodness. So lush and hidden,...

One year on the road

September 6th 2021- September 6th 2022 Well, here we are! We find ourselves celebrating again just two weeks after our long-awaited...

Arterra Bizimodu

Early June 2022 • Navarra, Spain Arterra Bizimodu was on our radar long ago when we took a virtual tour with the Global Ecovillage...

Torri Superiore (Northern Italy)

April 14- April 28th When I think about Torri Superiore now, three months later, I think of the frog symphony that sang us to sleep every...

Notes from Central Italy

March 12- April 11, 2022 Naples/ Pompeii - Rome - Umbria (Utopiaggia community) - Siena- Florence The winter was finally (mostly) over....

Southern Italy

January 29th- March 12th 2022 Bari- Gravina in Puglia - Casamassima - Matera - Sicily (Messina- Taormina- Catania- Noto- Syracuse - Etna-...

Greece

November 14th 2021- January 29th 2022 Our next stop was one that had called to me for years, and we arrived just in time for me to start...

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