Temps de lecture / Reading time: < 1 minute My poor English readers, I am really not taking good care of you :'( Promise I’ll try now on to give news more often! Here is a start in 2020, stats about my first year of travel. And what comes next! Enjoy the podcast, see ya! 22nd of March 2019: first pedal stroke from home […]
Author archives: jules
The volcanic islands
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 18 minutes Short crossing Delayed by few days, we finally left Agadir. It is on a superb 54 feet that we will spend this short crossing (about 260 nautical miles). Offshore, the wind is between 18 and 20 knots, it will blow 20 knots during the night. The autopilot is set, we will not touch the sails […]
Agadir, hard to leave
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 5 minutes At the beginning of August I’ve been in the Canary Islands for three weeks. Weeks of vacation especially, including a lot of wandering in the mountains. Landed in Lanzarote, I quickly toured the island over two days. Then headed to Fuerteventura, the nearby island. I will spend four full days exploring on foot and by […]
Short ftour in Morocco
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 13 minutes To my cyclo-tourist friend looking for its next travel: stop searching! Morocco fits everything that a bike traveler is looking for: welcoming people who overtake with a good margin, a few climbs in an impressive scenary, a rich and varied culinary culture, an exotic country, and it is also at the gates of Europe! At […]
Portuguese moussaillon
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 5 minutes It has now been five days since I left Europe for Morocco. The change of scenery is total. Once out of town, it is difficult to get understood in French or Spanish (forget English)! However it is a beautiful country, I will tell more about it in the next article! This one is devoted to […]
All roads lead to Santiago
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 8 minutes Since my mother and aunt left Lisbon, the good weather is showing the tip of his nose! A long and uncertain part begins here. But not unpleasant. I will have time to write a few articles, to work my Portuguese and also to do the maintenance of my bike. If the wind allows, I will […]
Back to sources
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 4 minutes After five days on the saddle, it feels good to have this stop! In addition the weather is promising so this ensures us good flights. I didn’t come here by chance! Very attached to the Pyrenees because it is in these mountains that I discovered most of the activities that I practice now: mountain biking, […]
One departure, many goodbyes
Temps de lecture / Reading time: 7 minutes I am writing these lines from Porto, almost a month after I left. So far everything is fine, only one mishap but many encounters, and already good memories. It is not easy to find a rhythm and I am still looking for it. Despite my roadbook that I keep up to date regularly, writing texts […]