Our journey is coming to an end today. Final destination Isla Cristina! After fixing some fiest and last bike problems with the tire of Pacôme, the GPS is set for San Silvestre de Guzman, our first meeting point. We only need to bike 30km today and after three weeks, this goes quite smoothly. We don’t exactly know where we left behind the mountains and then the hills, but here it’s definitely flat surface going to sea level,finally! The road is afain very straight forward and not very inspiring. What is different is that we now see major water pump systems to spray the orange trees, quite eye opening that the oranges from Spain are not necessarily an original product from the South Europe. More research will be done! We stop for a quick lunch in Villablanca, the last small town before the touristic coast.
Going for the final road to Isla Cristina we take two routes. VA prefers to stay on the highway to be sure to make it around 16:00 to the final destination. The three others take a less busy, but more rocky road to the Isla. They pass more orange tree orchards and the rich suburbia of the coast. The town of Isla Cristina is surrounded by salinas, where they gain salt from the ocean. Then follows the harbour and then e hotels, apartments, old style coast tourism. The first to arrive is VA and the other join him soon for cerveja in Casa Pepin on the Central playa of Isla Cristina. We’ve made it after 1170km! Time for some group pictures on the beach and in the evening we immediately confront ourselves wi the question if there is already something we would do differently. There is a consensus that the group should be bigger, at least eight people, so there we can creat more freedom, more stories, more routes on the fold. The foldable bikes was also for everyone a very good choice. Time wise it might become a bit different. We biked an average of 50km a day, but with this landscape it prohibited us sometimes from working. So it’s maybe an idea to bike an average of 35km per day, although the timing of one month is a good one..
The fact that these four participants already discuss the next fold means that nadine will try to get funds for a next one!
Thank you all very much for reading and following this blog, it’s been a pleasure writing about our trip and experience! And hopefully see you next year for Default #2!
nadine kindly invites you to Wandering Arts Biennial – Finissage, Saturday 20 September, 17:00.
(NL) WAB Finissage toont wat tijdens de Wandering Arts Biennial #1 geproduceerd werd. De projecten en intenties die tijdens het begin van WAB voorgesteld werden, worden nu gepresenteerd aan de hand van de realisaties deze zomer. Deze finale tentoonstelling vormt het einde van de eerste editie van WAB.
(FR) WAB Finissage est l’occasion de présenter ce qui a été produit durant Wandering Arts Biennial #1. Les projetsdéveloppés pour l’occasion ont été expérimentés durant l’été, soumettant les intentions de départ au processus de leur réalisation. Cet ensemble est présenté à l’occasion de l’exposition marquant la fin de la première édition de WAB.
(EN) WAB Finissage presents what was produced during Wandering Arts Biennial #1. The projects and initial intentions that were set out at the beginning of WAB, are now presented through the realisations of this summer. This final exhibition marks the end of the first edition of WAB.
PROGRAM
17:00 : doors/ opening of the final WAB exhibition
18:00 : presentation of WAB projectresults by participating artists
19:30 : open bar
WITH (participating artists and projects of WAB)
Being Boucalais with Various Artists, Tour de Belgique/Buratinas with Pacôme Beru, Bxl.Wildlife with Bxl.Wildlife Service, Circling Around (without taking off) with Bruno De Wachter, Default/Périphérique.0 with Theun Karelse, Nicolas Matzner Weisner, Francisca Neira, Various Artists, and nadine.
WAB Finissage – 20/09/14 – 17:00
WAB Expo – 21/09-26/09 – 14:00-18:00
PLATEAU (Herdersstraat 30 rue du Berger, Elsene/Ixelles)
More info : http://wab.nadine.be or mail loes@nadine.be
Circling Around is part of the European project ALOTOF and is supported by the European Culture Program 2007-2013.
Buratinas is supported by Mobiel Brussel van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.
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