User:Becha/Lika/Lodge

Lika Lodge

We have a house that is open for sharing with friends.

It can be used for short stays, retreats, as a nomadic base, for “digital detox”.

It is available for free (like free software: high-maintenance, steep learning curve, favors function over form, you are free to use it & modify it, but you also have a responsibility to contribute, and to share it with others – with dormouse, with extended family, and with the community of future users).

How to get there

Address: Gubavcevo Polje 11

OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.34056&mlon=15.93629#map=17/44.34056/15.93629

GoogleMaps: has a street-view (up until the "graveyard")

Last Part of the Road

• From the road Gracac-Knin, take a turn to Deringaj

• Follow that road - asphalt, not a great quality, may curves & turns - to the "graveyard"

• Turn right to the gravel road, between two low stone-walls

• After 100 meters turn RIGHT again, onto the GRASS ROAD

• Follow that, over the fields, to the house number 12
  • on your right you will pass "transformation-poll"
  • just before the house, there will be a plum&apple orchid on your right

• Leave the car next to the HUGE WALNUT

• Walk to the right, up the hill, to the Lodge - UNDER THE HUGE LINDEN TREE

Instructions

Before You Arrive

• Get the keys from Vesna

• Get more instructions / introductions from Vesna / Arnd

• Make agreements with Vesna

Upon Arrival

ELECTRICITY & WATER HAVE BEEN SWITCHED OFF before last people left last time 

• Turn the electricity on
  • there are fuse-boxes behind the front door
  • write down the values on the electricity meter
  • plug in & turn on the appliances: fridge, cooker, lights, heating...

• Close all the water taps & "ventils"
  • water-heater in the kitchen has a "ventil" for this purpose
  • all the taps
  • washing-machine "ventil" & "filter"

• Open the water - on the mains!
  • mains-ventil is in the MANHOLE on the BOTTOM OF THE HILL!!! (get verbal instruction from Vesna)
  • check for any burst pipes
  • let the water RUN for a while, to get all the dirt from the pipes out, before you start drinking

• Only then turn on the water-boiler

• Open the windows to air the sleeping room

• Clean all the dust
  • start from the TOP & go "down"
  • "dust off" all the cobwebs
  • remove the moths, flies and other bugs , from the CEILING BEAMS
  • remove spiders & bugs from the walls, with the duster
  • use the cloths to clean the horizontal surfaces: table, cooker, stove, chairs...
  • use the broom to brush all of that from the floor
    • eventually, also to remove possible mouse-shits from the floor
  • THEN use the vacuum-cleaner to remove finer particles

Before Departure

LET THE WATER OUT OF PIPES, CLOSE THE WATER MAINS & SWITCH OFF ELECTRICITY 

• Do everything in reverse from when arriving ;-)

About Lika Lodge

Basic Description

• It's a small house, with two rooms:
  • kitchen / living room
  • + bathroom & toilet
  • sleeping room with 3 beds

• Available
  • Drinkable Running-Water from the municipal aqua-system (voDoVoD) - coming from the spring in Glogovo
  • hot water "boiler" both for the kitchen & for the bathroom
  • Electricity from the grid
    • for the lights
    • for the kitchen equipment
    • for heating
    • for water-boiling (kettle)
    • WASHING MACHINE
  • fully-equipped kitchen (fridge, sink, plates & cups, cooking pans, cutlery...)
    • electrical cooker for cooking food
    • with the gas-stove
    • and the gas bottle
  • wood-stove, more for atmosphere then for heating
    • there are some dried branches, outside, to burn
    • fire-starters are in the drawer
    • matches are in the old-fridge-used-as-cupboard
  • bathroom (shower & toilet)
  • electrical heater (fan / builders dryer)
  • 4 electrical blankets!
  • bed-linnen , cushion-covers, duvets, sleeping-bags - enough for 4 people
  • extra tents for extra people
  • one twin mattress
  • two inflatable mattresses, single size
  • hammock
  • storage-fridges, full of food and kitchen-equipment
  • plastic Ikea storage boxes, full of equipment for painting, camping, household items...
  • Vesna's spare clothes & shoes

• What is NOT there:
  • There is NO Internet!
  • There is not SHOP for buying food nearby
  • There is NO garden or market or shop or a restaurant at the walking distance
  • Local / public transportation is MINIMAL
  • there is NO hair drier ;-)
  • There are NO neighbours!
  • There are NOT MANY TOOLS available
  • THERE IS NO AX for cutting wood for the wood-fire!
  • not many umbrellas...

History

https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Becha/Lika2017

https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/LikaCamp2016

https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Becha/Lika#2014

Start of the project: 2013; Main Page: https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Becha/Lika

Plans for the Future

We might organise another LikaCamp in 2018: let me know if you are interested!

Even longer term, I would like to attract many people to come and live In Lika, in that area, with us – in a commune, or in a village, or in the little town; in the rural area, in the mountains, on the farms... It will take another 5-10 years to achieve this dream, do join if you like it too!