European Heritage Day

Published on the blog Sacred Homeland in 2012

Today it’s the European Heritage Day. We started the day by waking up in a tree house in the forest.

Yesterday we went to Urnatur to have a reunion with volunteers and Swedish participants from the IOV World Youth Congress that took place this summer. Urnatur is a place for green meetings and environmentally friendly conferences in the landscape of Östergötland. and the
The wood hermitage is built by the owner them self and consists of fabulous huts and tree houses, everyone with it’s own design and story. We had the luck to stay in one of the two tree houses, about ten feet up in a tree, a little more close to the sky. (Or luck, actually we ran fastest when we should decide who should stay where)

To take the first steps in the stair that twines up around a pine tree was exciting. Up on the landing where the house was built you could feel the wind moving the trees, the house and also yourself. Luckily we had a calm night and a safe and good night sleep.

At Urnatur we had the possibility to try to make a fire without using matches, just a bow drill and then bake bark bread over the fire, something that we have been thinking of doing the whole summer! It tasted really good and we will write more about it in a few days. Spending the weekend with this activities and really nice people made us feel that we are pleased with this years’ heritage day.