Cohousing-L Mailing List: Denmark Tour -- 21 Days and Counting!

[ann zabaldo (zabaldo]

The Cohousing in Denmark tour, scheduled for June 27 - July 3, has
shaped up nicely.  At the moment (June 4), we have seven people
signed up, so we can take up to three more.  We will be visiting
about eight cohousing communities in the Copenhagen area, leaving
time to also go sight-seeing, shopping, and just relaxing in this
most cosmopolitan, urbane, civilized city.  For more information,
call Tom Pendleton, organizer, at 202-265-1418 (but do so quickly, as
time is running out, and he is leaving for other tours on June 13).

Meanwhile, we are already thinking about a similar tour in 2000.
This would be in The Netherlands, which probably has the second
greatest density of cohousing communities of any nation.  Called
"centraal wooning", or central living, they have developed in a
different series than those in Denmark.
As one would expect of the Dutch, the architecture can be dramatic -
or very simple.  As the country with the best public transit system
in the world (though the Swiss might object to that statement), it is
easy to get around there, so we will try to cover a wide range of
location and community types.  The date would be earlier in the year
- either earlier in June or even in May (to catch the last of the
tulip blooming season).

Now is the time to influence the planning for next year.  Any
thoughts or ideas can be sent to Tom at his e-mail address
(tomtours [at] netscape.net) or at his PO Box 15671, Washington DC
20003.  (This may change after his move-in to Takoma Village
Cohousing next year, but that may not be before the tour!)


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Best -- Ann Zabaldo
Zabaldo [at] earthlink.net

"If you want to have good ideas, first have
lots of ideas, then some of them will be good."
               Linus Pauling

Takoma Village Cohousing is the Washington D.C.
area's first URBAN cohousing community. We're w/in
two households of being fully subscribed!  We expect to
have a healthy waiting list by groundbreaking in mid- Sept.
Email me for more details.  Or visit our
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