The new hippie trail, from Barcelona to Bangalore

Nil Garcia Baena Start Date: Jul 16, 2019 - End Date: Nov 15, 2019
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Professional Development
  • Volunteer Trip
  • Spain
  • France
  • Italy
  • Slovenia
  • Croatia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Montenegro
  • Albania
  • Greece
  • Turkey
  • Iran
  • Pakistan
  • India

My Travel Story

by: Nil Garcia Baena Start Date: Jul 16, 2019 - End Date: Nov 15, 2019
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Professional Development
  • Volunteer Trip
We are two friends from Barcelona who decided to leave our city to find ourselves. Our goal is to share and to learn from different people and cultures. We have already started, and now we are in Greece, after doing the first part of our trip. In this beautiful country we are volunteering with refugees. We are in Larissa and Chios island. We have been here for more than three months, trying to give our time and energy to communities who really need it.

After our volunteer we will continue though Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and India. We want to get deep into the culture with volunteering and cultural exchange. We always stay with locals. An example of this fact is that during our trip from Barcelona to Greece, which lasted for 6 weeks, we only slept in hostels 5 nights. The rest of the nights we slept at local friends' houses or using Couchsurfing.

When funding you are not funding a trip, you are funding a project. We are writing a book and Beatriz is recording songs. Both, the book and the songs are going to explain our experiences and our thoughts. We are going to relate everything we find and we think with the moder European society and its problems. The book/rap music project is described in English and Spanish.

The idea is to compile our experiences and emotions. We propose, non-fiction and poetry. Modern poetry writen and sung. 

The book is diveded in various chapters in which we relate the experiences of a trip between Barcelona and Bangalore and the Spanish and European society.

We talk about topics such as the trust between humans from our experience hitchhiking or our experience with refugees, who we have been working with for more than 4 months.

The contanct in between cultures and the diversity of ideologies is also related with the ideological crash withing one culture. From this point of view we are going to analyse current topics as the equality in between humans, the sustainable turism, the wellbeing of all humans or the current behaviour of the Spanish and European society. We are the ones that grew up during the crisis in Spain. This experience has labeled and conditionate us.

With this project we want to get to people's heart. We want to show that happiness exists and that an introspective path is needed. The trip is also an exteriorization of our inside trip.

"La propuesta es un recopilatorio de experiencias y emociones. Proponemos no-ficción y poesía. Poesía contemporánea en forma de rap y letra escrita. 

El libro se divide en varios capítulos en los que se relacionan experiencias de un viaje entre Barcelona y Bangalore con aspectos de la sociedad moderna occidental.

Tratamos temas como la confianza entre seres humanos a través de nuestra experiencia haciendo autostop o la situación de los refugiados en Grecia (dónde hemos estado 4 meses trabajando). El contacto entre culturas y la diversidad de ideologías a nivel euroasiático es también relacionado con el choque ideológico dentro de las mismas. Desde este punto de vista se analizan temas de actualidad, como la igualdad, el turismo sostenible, el bienestar personal o los cambios en el comportamiento de la sociedad española y europea. Somos los que crecimos con la crisis. La escasez nos ha marcado directa o indirectamente. Con vivencias y reflexiones podemos hacer de esta parte de nosotros, una virtud única que nos ayude a valorar todo aquello que tenemos.

Con este proyecto queremos llegar a los corazones de los lectores. Queremos demostrar que ser feliz es posible y que es necesario un camino introspectivo, de conocimiento personal. Este viaje interno, que no deja de ser una interiorización del viaje físico a través del mundo. Los pensadores de las letras que van a leer y escuchar aún no nos conocemos a nosotros mismos, pero sin duda, la escritura de este libro hace que exterioricemos las dudas y algunas respuestas sobre muchos de los problemas e inquietudes de nuestra sociedad."
  • Spain
  • France
  • Italy
  • Slovenia
  • Croatia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Montenegro
  • Albania
  • Greece
  • Turkey
  • Iran
  • Pakistan
  • India