We use a Brita filter for our tap water. Those filters can be bought almost everywhere: at the supermarkets that are big enough to have a non-food department, at the Mediamarkt, at some household stores. But you can’t recycle them in the store where you buy those filters. I gave up on asking in the … Read more
My parents stayed in Spain 18 winters in a row. Whenever I visited them I joined them in their hunt for water in the mountains behind Benidorm. In a village called Polop was a huge square with lots of fountains one after another.That was my first acquaintance with the fuentes of Spain. It’s a nice … Read more
Last winter I didn’t like the number of plastic bottles we bought and threw away. But we did so anyway because of the chlorine in the water. Yikes. This time we took our Brita filter with us. If we have to use ‘normal’ water we filter it 3 times. And here in the cabin, we … Read more
Tom gave me a present: a bamboo fiber Ecoffee cup. According to the description, there is a single-use of 100 billion cups a year! And now I am part of the #stopthe100billion movement. Nice, isn’t it? My cup is reusable, washable (of course) and in a few years’ time when I am tired of it, … Read more