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On the road for ... 1 year, 8 months and 14 days

 

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                Next stage : SPAIN - March 2008  

Current Position : Béni-Mellal, sky-diving in Morocco

On Mars 15th, 1997, after skydiving with friends on the Moulin Blanc beach in Brest, I took my bike "Magic. 24044kms and 333 days later, I came back to my starting point. The earth is actualy round and magnificient. But it is fragile tto. It is not dangerous, it's the unknown that implies fear. I was specially touched by the russian welcome all over this huge Siberia. This name means goulag and sadness for us in the west but it means a real pleasure for me.

9 years left for this trip but I never forget. There is life before and life after. Every time I see a globe, I wonder how it can be so small I can go round the world by bike.

Magic is impatient to set off again, it is now decided : we leave again on june, the 10th! It will  be ready, so I will. We are A nous les grands espaces, le vent, le soleil, la pluie, sans savoir le matin où nous serons le soir. We are going to ride on this planet without a sound, proud of our wanderer's way of life.

Lundi 21 janvier 2008
undefinedSuch a burden ! this wind coming from the North-East is terrible, 10 hours biking each day and only 100 km done with sand every where flying with the wind. In the other direction, it 25 km/h without doing anything, smoking a pipe … I won’t be able to make it, one can be masochist but this is just too much to bare. I am in Atar in the mountains of Adrar, I’ve decided not to continue along the Atlantic coast … or I would get a partial view of Mauritania. The tourism has dropped to almost nothing following the killings in December which has been done by young offenders with no hope and they have nothing to do with Al Quaeda. This panick has been created intentionally (for which dark reasons ?) by the French government has negative effects on the country.
Come in Mauritania, there is nothing to be scared of, the French are most welcom here. I have kept my French flag on my bicycle and it’s thanks to this one that I’ve been regularly helped by the Mauritanese along the road. “France is still my favorite country in Mauritania”, I’ve heard this so often … with less flattering comments on our president. 2 days ago, a beautiful night under the stars near the oasis of Terjit with 2 camels to look after us.
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Tomorrow I will go back toward West to Nouhadibou with a train which is 2.5 km long with 200 coaches (22000 tons of mineral iron for each trip), a great atmosphere there I’ve been told!

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