From Cairo to Cape Town for Water4All
Departure of our journey through Africa in december 2021
Another border crossing, this time between Tanzania and Zambia. For the first time our vaccination booklet is checked, by a young woman with the name of Happy. She is mainly interested in the vaccine against yellow fever. At the emigration desk, where a hen is incubating her eggs behind a cupboard, it goes very quickly Read More …
We found the TWIX in the bottom of François’ top box. François is not a ball buster, he just got a bit confused in his storage.I pray that he won’t find the eggs in a few days at the bottom of his laundry bag…. (yes, I’m making fun of him, but he told me so)A Read More …
This time we are there on Thursday 9am, the time of departure rings, it froze last night, a scraping of the windshield is necessary, . After an emotional goodbye to our wife and partner, we board the plane for Germany, Düsseldorf airport to be precise. We hope we haven’t forgotten anything important! This last week Read More …
At the end of September 2020 we postponed our journey by one year because of Covid. As we wrote to you at the time, giving up was not an option. We remained positive and motivated, which allowed us to keep the project on track.In the last few weeks we were very concerned that we would Read More …
Today should have been THE DAY of the BIG DEPARTURE to Italy first, port Monfalcone precisely. Embarkation for crossing the Mediterranean on a cargo ship bound for Israel … This long-awaited departure, dreamed of countless times. We were already visualizing the long embraces and hugs before departure, the intense exchanges of glances, which without a Read More …
It’s done: we tried to avoid talking about it, unconsciously we refused to broach the subject even if it became obvious: we made the decision to postpone our departure for a year due to the pandemic world which still rages and which hits hard many African countries. Giving up was not an option Postponing a Read More …
We have been waiting for the past few weeks. However, we remained active. In addition to running the motorcycles, we have to run the bikers, the videographers, the sound recorders, the screenwriter, the editors … in short, a lot of things that we discover. Instead, judge for yourself through this video. Stay indulgent in the Read More …
You have been imaginative and productive and we thank you for it. Judge for yourself: 1. Guido offered to give our nickname to our respective motorbike. An idea like any other, he writes. We have done the exercise of listing all the nicknames that have been assigned to us as far as we can remember. Read More …
It is a custom with François, who even baptized his robotic automower “Gillette”, each new vehicle receved a familiar name so that it becomes a family’s member. We are going to ride for a hundred consecutive days our new steeds, whom we wish to be faithful and invincible, so it seems appropriate to give them Read More …
Do you know of anyone in your circle who… flew around the world in a Boeing 777 without ever encountering a single incident or shaken his passengers ? asked for a flying height of 40,000 feets in order to film her altimeter for a friend’s 40th birthday, and, cherry on the cake, asked her Singaporean Read More …