User:Becha/Lika/Lodge
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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 ;-)
Where is What
inside the house
around the house
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 making food
- with the gas-stove
- and the gas bottle
- wood-stove, more for atmosphere then for heating
- 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
- 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 ;-)
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!
