La France – Haute Coture/Autre Culture

Grenoble’s alternative scene has different way of squatting houses –mostly it is only a small group of people who quickly move in into an empty building and never expect to really stay as much as half a year. We got the chance to stay with Alice’s group in Grenoble in a newly squatted old french house with a magic garden, illegal electricity supply and water which had to be collected from the nearby park.
Staying only shortly doesn’t really motivate anyone to set up the place particularly nicely, but then – nothing can beat the wall papers;)

Our next aim was a feminist/lesbian/trans/intergender project on the last mountain of the french alps. We arrived unannounced through a contact and caught the whole community in the midst of cutting gigantic amounts of wood. We were invited to stay and so I got to spend a day cutting and carrying tons of wood myself, walking in the foggy autumn forest or to linger in front of the wood-oven together with the dog, the cat and a glass of red wine. Long live Kraken! I will never forget the wonderful people, the hot shower and the soft mattress ;)

Beautiful Kraken

Wood, wood, wood – the winter is coming in heavy boots

Strange worlds and magic creatures are waiting in the deep forests...

Buongiorna, je suis une baguette – yey ab nach Spanien, Adios la France, du warst schön, aber kalt:)