User:Becha/Lika2017

Visiting Lika in 2017

Previous visits / other pages:

• LikaCamp2016
• User:Becha/Lika
• Part of : Hackers_tribes, Hackers_tribes#UnCivilization, http://UnCiv.nl

August 2017

• Plan: 20-25.8.
  • Arnd will drive from Amsterdam to Krk, pick up Vesna & Alisa & Charlie (& maybe Nana Iris Lara too)
  • Drive with car from Krk to Lika
  • Fly back on 26th from Zagreb; Arnd will drive back to Amsterdam

• Actually:
  • Bogdan, Mileva & Milka were there 10-28. August
  • We were there 20-24. August (Arnd, Vesna, Alisa, Charlie, Nana, Iris, Lara)

• Achievements
  • did not kill each other, but just about
  • made most of the ceiling
  • kids made a WONDERFUL theatre-circus-musical show

• While in Krk: published "report" about LikaCamp2016 File:Pdf-about LikaCamp2016-story in pictures.pdf (88K PDF)

June 2017

NEW: Description of the LODGE User:Becha/Lika/Lodge

• Plan
  • Evelien & Sicco to arrive around 10.6.
  • Vesna to arrive on 14.6.
    • Jadrolinija Dubrovnik-Split 7:15-12:30 http://www.jadrolinija.hr/docs/default-source/2017-red-plovidbe/9811s-en.pdf?sfvrsn=2
    • Vlak/voz Split-Gracac 14:21-16:53 http://www.hzpp.hr
  • Leaving 18.6.
    • Train Gracac-Zagreb 11:02 - 14:30
    • KLM (KL 1944) Zagreb (ZAG) - Amsterdam (AMS), DEPARTURE 17:45

• Actually
  • Arrival as planned
  • Departure on the 17th (Saturday), 9PM, by car, all 3 of us
    • Stayed overnight near village "Manojlovici", half-way to Zagreb, in an apartment for rent
    • Continued to Hrelic (flea-market) in Zagreb on the 18th ; met Nikolina there
    • Vesna flew away as scheduled; Evelie & Sicco drew back to Holland for two more days

Activities and achievements

• Evelien & Sicco managed to find the house all right, on their own, in the dark!!
• Evelien & Sicco managed to find even the water mains!!
• Evelien & Sicco visited Plitvice, Nikola Tesla museum, the coast, Tomingaj, Gracac, Bihac (Bosnia), and many smaller places
• Vesna managed to open the basement of the Big House & borrow the grass-cutter
• We managed to start the fire, together
• We found the old-mill along the way,
• We visited Kruno & met Gijs there, too
• We've met the bee-keeper, Mara, cake-shop-owner
• We did NOT climb Lisac
• Evelien & Sicco left extra equipment in the house
• Met the PUH - he is back!! Made a video :)
• Sicco skinned & preserved many dead animals: 2 snakes, and a kuna
• Vesna collected lots of forest-strawberries & yarrow to dry for tea; made "salve" out of it too
• Vesna slept in the tent all 4 nights
• Evelien made a painting & left it as a present for the house
• Documentation
  • Message sent to UnCiv list: https://lists.puscii.nl/wws/arc/uncivilization/2017-06/msg00015.html
  • Tweets, such as: https://twitter.com/Ms_Multicolor/status/875321143971938306

April

• Who: Alisa, Charlie, Vesna, Arnd
• Where: Lika Lodge
• What: Family Vacation

Travel and Time Planning

• Drive from Amsterdam to Zagreb 22-23 April
• Visit Nikolina & family in Zagreb
• Arrive to Gubavcevo Polje / "Lika Lodge" on 24rd April (Monday)
  • Visit Kruno
  • Visit Rajko?!
  • Climb Lisac??
• Leave on 29th April (Saturday)
• Drive back - Lika -> Amsterdam on 29-30. April

Actually

• Drive from Amsterdam to Zagreb 22-23 April
  • stayed in the hotel with a pool, in the street called "IRL" :)
  • waited for 1 hour on the border :(
• Visit Nikolina & family in Zagreb
• Arrived to Gubavcevo Polje / "Lika Lodge" on 24rd April (Monday)
  • Mileva & Bogdan also - with Mico & Ruzica (in the big house)
  • no-one broke in! no-one stole anything!!

• Left on 28th April Friday NIGHT -> 2AM!
  • got stuck in the mud at 1PM, in the rain...
  • arrived to Zagreb to return the ladder at 4AM
  • arrived to the border with Slovenia at 5AM and did not wait AT ALL
  • spent Saturday in the Bad Hall / Europa Thermen (Spa)
  • spent the night in the Pansion Srnicek near Passau
  • safely got home on Sunday...

Achievements April

• Achievements
  • Brought quite some extra things for the house by car (and tools, that we brought back with us)
  • FINISHED THE CHIMNEY!!!!
  • Had wood-fire burning! Not enough to warm the place, because lack of ceiling
  • Visited Nikola Tesla Memorial House / Museum
  • Replaced the lock on the door, and padlock on the gate
  • Sorted-out some administration (payed electricity, payed EXTRA electricity for the "old house" from LikaCamp2016, got non-confirmation about Vesna's birth certificate)
  • Charlie made the kitchen-garden!
  • Alisa klimbed all the trees around the house
  • Arnd & Charlie made a SWING in the LIPA/LINDEN
  • We planted potatoes, together with grand-parents & grand-uncles
  • Met the SQUIRREL again (and made a 1-minute video of her jumping the trees...)
  • Decided to leave earlier, because of rain & long waits on borders & Arnd's back & sleep problems

• Expenses
  • Payed 50 Euros to the "Big House", for using their electricity during LikaCamp2016
  • Payed 1700 Euros for fixing the broken exhaust on the car, in June 2017 :(
  • Payed 300 Euros for the chimney (200 in Holland, 100 in Lika)
  • Along the way: 2 overnight stays in Germany; highway tolls & vignettes in Croatia, Slovenia & Austria; spa ;-)

March

• Placed LikaCamp Lodge & Gubavcevo Polje on the OpenStreetMaps !!
  • https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/486435874
  • https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4790563035
  • https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.34056&mlon=15.93629#map=17/44.34056/15.93629

• Placed LikaCamp Logde on TransforMap.co ! (thanks, Emile!)
  • https://demo.transformap.co/organic.html#16/44.3404/15.9363
  • https://demo.transformap.co/identities.html?popup=way486435874#14/44.3404/15.9363

October 2016

• Vesna and Arnd visited Lika Lodge for 3 days
• With: Mico & Ruzica in the Big House

Achievements

• No-one broke into the house!
• We climbed Lisac!!!
• Met with builders, decided to NOT let them build the chimney, replace the roof, NOR heighten the walls JUST YET
• Bought the mattress
• Swam in the sea, in Posedarje!!

Other Events Nearby in 2017

• Kruno's event:
  • 24th and 25th June.
  • Center for Creative Solutions located at village Rasoja, near Lovinac, Croatia,
  • http://uke.hr/EEII/178-2/

• Jankovic Castle - The days of the Castle
  • 22-23..7.
  • http://www.kulajankovica.hr/en/

• Rajkot's house in Kistanje