Godille....

Still in Concarneau,where the sun appear again!!!After some rainy moments withing last week...but this is to live by the coast..wheather is for now moderated,no cold,no real bad storm yet..some rain but nothing bad.
Yesteday we learn with our formator how to use a godille,means how to sail with nothing apart of a piece of wood shaped that you moov into the water to make a certain distance ,to get another place or eventually a bigger boat and it is still interesting!!!!
Yesterday i ve for the second time run along the beach for 30 minutes and i was in pain ,my legs are no use to it anymore but what a good feeling you can get out of it,to just dive into the wind ,the waves crashing besides me..the salty air into my nose and the birds passing over,here and there and the sun going away and the darkness coming..thinking about it there was a time where i was allready in the total darkness,up there,in Norway,such amazing place full of mystery and silence...liker det!
Tides are coming up and down and life going on with in everydays,so much to learn and experience ...soon December,and i will have to go to sea to experience fishing here cause i have to for my formation ,about 21 days..but i will do my best be at the family home for xmas and will see later on about the NYE...i will probably go back hitchiking (as usual??)
We (friends from here and I) by the way check the rubbish to see if there was any luck about getting some food...and we did find the great treasure, evey wednesday and sundays rubbish are full of food ..speacialy one..that is THE one for us now,lasty time we found 3,600kl of permegiano..nearly 10liters of colza oil,few beer,bottle of wine..and i just dont want to talk about the others kind of chesses..a good amout of meat also,choclate,chips..well 5/6 or us are enjoying the society overconsuming.....and trust me..none got sick of it yet...and even more happy and free and sad/proud of theses founds!!!!
well!!!today is wednesday..and i got my free afternoon...!!!!it s sunny ..might go again..for a run later!

ON FIRE!!!

Today i take course whith my mates from the formation of the CIP,courses about how to face a fire...and light it off,today we light some oil(diesel) and light off whith extingushers,last week was how to wear a surviving suit and how to pop a surviving canoe and go in,2 days theory and 1 day practice...but this week is much different it has been allready 2 days of thery and we go for 3 days practice.

Happy that all going fine,seen many boats in between also that goes for the transat jacques vabres from le Havre to the caribeian i think,and at the moment there is the Belem, a old massiv sailing boat (gremant) that is gonna stay here untill march and that i think to visit if they make some visit of it.
wheather still great...well, the temperature is not cold ,not warm but there is indeed some humidity,one day can be sunny the other cloudy all over and all day long..

my fingers are at the moment all black from the dust from the fire,a stage to pass and a good one,just to know..how to use an exthingusher..such interesting subjet!!!but we will do more and go with the fenzy later on means we will have 2 bottles of compresed air on our back and go into the smoky and hot room to discover and light off the fire..
I miss one thing tho,even if i am still on right now..i miss the bike i ve been given,i miss to live as nomad making my way the way it goes as simple as that,reading right now a book that Jibi gave me about cycling Tibet,i am wondering more and more about it..

Sunny saturday sailing on the bay

Well,it was today,today that i hang out on the harbour of sailing boat like yesterday to try my luck to go around the bay for cuple of hours or a day trip....
And it was today that i got lucky,to me,lucky to meet Joel Garric..about 50 y.o,he was trying to get on top of the sail?(mat in french) with the help of other boats owner,when i just arrive...after that, we started to talk about,experiences,sailing,wind,when i told him i was interested to go out on sea for a bit he told me that i would have making me a tour with pleasure..but his big sailing (thing) just broke is for that he had to go up to cut a rope up there.
So it is about the end of the season for him,but he told me we could go for a ride in the bay not that far but without the big sail...so,here we go then..went on galaxy IV,9 meters long sailing boat..bought second hand in La Rochelle cuple of years ago,and it is is fifth sailing boat...we were not only 2 onboard there was Tim the dog,a setter of 5y.o, that was ennoying but ok...but he wanted to play and puch me with his legs,he probalby was on his stupid day....cause he is never like this joel said.
WEll,let s go out the harbour with the motor on pushing us...and then we put the little front sail and stop the motor,a great feeling,then we talk about wind again,gps,look at map,of the bay and around and his experience as navigation teacher,and his army on a military boat and also his last job befor retirement as ingenior on the navy industry.
Joel as much knowledge and he is also apart of the peoples that are in charge to check the boats for the Figaro(french magazine) race to make sure there is everything in the boat and nobody will cheat the race...
After like 2 hours on the boat sailing around there was almost no more wind ,but the sun was still here,gotta say the weather is just wonderfull since i came here,not a drop of rain,and it is a little fresh morning ,evening,then there is a very good temperature .
When we came back of our small small sailing session we "locked"the boat to a inflatable ball and picked up a smaller one,to get to the land,then Joel gave me a ride in his car also more to the center of Concarneau ,then i thank him again and left him my phone number ,cause i might see him again to give him a hand about his boat but the chances are small,and he might give my number to some of his sailing boat owner hopefully.
What a fullfilled Saturday also,cause i went,kind of visit my future appartement,from the windows,where i will spend about 4 months,and where all the travelers will be welcom,cs,hc peoples but also peoples that i will sponeiously realise that are in need of couch.
Living in Concarneau,by the Sea,is a great luck,and i start day by day to enjoy this little paradise.
I will be mooving in this appartement by thursday,till then i will stay in the abandonned place i found,no need to waste monney,i got the shower for 1euro 50 at the youth hostel where peoples are nice and open enought to provide soap an towel.

Here i go....again..

Just arrived in town after about 2 days hitchiking France,2 kms from the city center,here was the squatt might be 150meters square no water no electricity allready open cause it is a old place to rent open up by punks i guess,some graffs and cans of beers around and very close,the shop where i bought a old holland style bike made in holland for some 30euros....old but still going very good...just one speed but what a speed.... what a fullfilled thursday also had to go today to doctor today,formation center and some administration places that are in charge of my "case" ,definitly going back into the real world for some peoples...tonns of paper to provide to make it more complicated,and i still need more forms to fill up .,i ve seen a sea doctor ,swam 50 meters to get certificate befor that,got papers here and there about monney and financing,went to the first meeting in Concarneau by train where i have seen firstable 3 peoples that found my file acceptable, got down and up again hitchiking from Toulouse...i enjoyed hospitality from french drivers and truckers and gotta say it hitchiking in france is pretty easy.
well here i am now,i am seeing the open sea everydays and in the days to come i will investigate to get in tuch with some peoples into sailing and hopefully get on sailing boat for some exploration of the Concarneau bay day trip or more some days i wish... by monday 9H00am i will go to the formation center to know what is all about and will know my timetable....
definitly happy..i have to find now an appartement......

Back to Cornwall

Yes,I will be back to Cornwall,but this time not on the english coast,but the French Cornish coast or Kernev,in Finistere,Brittany..
After more than a year traveling about in Europe,visited and lived in Scandinavia,Russia,Estern Europe,Ex-Yougoslavia untill Istanbul to come back to Toulouse with my thumb,train hop toulouse to Paris,cycled the UK and Irland ,Benelux and Western Europe and Switzerland lately for 6 month,that just went so interesting,meet wonderfull peoples and had very great time ,life is beautifull...
I am felling now sea is calling me again,i realised it more when i went for surf this summer with friends,i was feeling so well on the coast,looking at the Sea,memories of Norway ,and indeed Newquay where I had wicked time learning portugueses with my brasilians friends and learn how to surf..on the english Cornish coast,all theses time I was living on the coast and going out on the sea very often (speacially in Norway)....well,i am missing all that!
So,I did apply for courses to be a qualified (sort of,haha) deckhand,fisherman on fishing boat,means i will be on land to do courses on a center based in Concarneau..and then go to Sea,i will be learning about security,navigation,fishing methods,meteo and more.
I will be 4 month in Concarneau and then 2 month on a fishing boat,coastal or high sea,I ve been lucky...i am accepted,cause i am really looking forward to go out on the Sea not only on fishing boat but sailing boat also,i will enjoy my time in concarneau to learn about sailing and talk with peoples from the sea also,sailors,fishermans..men that like to like the unique felling to be on the the sea.
It will be time for me to enjoy this luck i have to learn more again about the Sea and also make a point on my cycling tour,reorganise,try to plan the future.As i heard that the border Marroco and Algeria is close..witch was not on the supposed plan,i might now change that route for the silk road,well i have time to think about it ,and think also about crossing the Channel on a sailing boat enjoying my futures connetions and geographical situation,that could be a great first journey sailing also...indeed for the fun of it.
My summer has been a great one hot and sunny,even too hot,cause France was on dry alert..it did't rain much lately neither.
I was there for the funeral of my grand uncle ,and i was there also in the first hours of my nephew,one go,one come...and that makes me think a little more...that i was born one day...and will just go again as i came.....i got a ticket to hearth,gotta enjoy it,and is what i am doing...
I also had my first yoga courses this summer,it was exaclty viniyoga?well,it is just too good and i recommend it very much,the feeling you can get just breathing and focusing is simply amazing.
I am on the go today hitchiking,again,to Concarneau,Cornouailles,by the Sea,iode ,life,water,and i am sure is going to be something to experience !!!

Training done..

Back from an about 8500/9000km journey since cuple of hours,went to see first Anne the girlfriend of my brother who is pregnant,she has now a very big belly cause my nephew is about to born!!Anyway!Made it befor him! and glad i did cause i really wish i see him on his firsts days in this world...
Seen my italian grandma also,who is worry of any mouv i do..and who is the kind ,like some peoples to think that climbing the Everest is going to reach the unusefull,well,she is not the first and not the last to think in this way...just like going around the world on a bike...why i just can't be like the others,around in my family???,think retirement points,think about my 60years old,think about reproducing myself,think about making a lot of monney ,invest,sale,make some profit by eventually making bisness with some appartement that i would buy...instead of going around the world with my bike....reach the unusefull.....

Anyways...coming back to Toulouse ,i rode along a known way since years..since the year i actually gone for my first trip on bike, this is where it all started,where all started to fuse in my head,where my first feeling about cycling the world started to grow,one dream,many paths,one life...
Riding along the canal du Midi,i also had a think to Jibi,riding actually the one that was his for so long,passing by the places known from boths of us..where we sleeped,where we had interesting conversation about the life on just a piece of grass actually.. just this 2 meters squares pieces of grass along this canal is too representative,and i had coffe on this memorial to both of us...!!
The Canal where we also rode naked,where i do remember seeing George felling down in the water cause spike tree on the right side and a hole on the way on the left side ...what a laught we had...where i also learn so much about touring,and some bike mecanic when we found the both tires on a used bike that was on the side just out of the canal but the tires where new just right when i was needed,too many memories passed throught my head riding this way...
At home,i ve seen my daddy first that was painting around the outside of the house,inside my mum was cooking...happy indeed,to see them both healthy and happy themselves,becoming soon..grandparents...35 years now of a common life,it is just so respectfull!!!
My Europeen journey went really well,now..what's next? Africa.. my route??...I guess..that i just dont know... future will tell exactly ,once again...
Anyways i will enjoy my time in Toulouse,to repair,fix,learn,think,think about too many things that are worth thinking about before a journey like this..
Might hop a train also in between and come back hitchhiking....to somewhere around cause i got a little nostalgie..well i just don t know once again...
I will surely write some more later....for now is time to sleep,in the family house,where i was born and raised...

LE JURA suisse

The day I left Fribourg I cycled to Basel/Bale in Switzerland,I did pass the border where there was nobody to check my passport,i ve found on the way a house in ruffurbishment that i ve sleep in for my first night in switerland,just out of Basel city,the day after I ve made my way further south and when later in that day was about to rain,I entered a cafe bar in Courrendlin witch is not so far from Delemont in the Jura Suisse,there i ve experience a really warm hospitality,peoples from this village are really open and interesting.
I ve been welcomed by Christophe Lurashi aka Lulu for 3 days ,lulu that I ve meet in this cafe,from that moment I ve lived what is like to live..in Courrendlin,Jura suisse!!!
Meeting Lulu I ve meet a whole village really quckly,cause Lulu is one of the fireman of the village,got to know about them,jURASSIENS from swiss ,that speak french uses swiss franc,that are very polite and hospitable peoples.
theses peoples like to echange ,speak,smile, laught very hard,play card ,eat,watch the tour de france on tv,the hockey online , the ice hockey,la petanque,cycling or just have a beer at the bistrot.
It is at one of this cafe bar that I ve meet also Gerard,he is massor kinesiterapeute and working with eldery peoples,now 48y.o,he like hiking in the Himalaya,also canoe kayaking ,sking and cycling,what an extreme person ,extreme and blind....he lost his vision cause of hereditary sickness witch cause a degenerecence of the retine.
I did have te chance for the first time to ride a tandem very soon after in his compagny Gerard made me make a tour of about 65 km in the valley going up and down..going fast as well,we also went to Vellera for the finish,665 mtrs ,his native village , on a very steep road,to have a beer a the end or our ride ,I ve had a very interesting day riding this tandem in compagny of Gerard.
The day after i ve meet Lionel (again) at the Cafe de la Tour just down where Lulu is living,who is also born in Courrendlin and he is working with is FATR,(his dad) as charpenter,23 Y.O he is working for now,but in cuple of month he will be going to Australia to experience the life there,it is not his first travel,many of the young peoples there did travel,from there we speak a lot about travel and we went for a ride up a wiew point, with one of his mate that I forgot the name...Sorry COPAIN!!!
We could see from there all the valley Vicques,Delemont,Courrendlin also,at about 666meters hight.
A big thanks to the Jura suisse!!!To,the inhabitant Courrendlin!!Lulu ,laurent,Lionel,Gerard;speedy,le cafe de la tour,le cafe de la couronne,lourdes et francoise,ludovic and GF vive l Ariege,mr le charcutier du village,o irmao portugues,katia...........!!
In between I ve been relaxing at Lulu and watching some report on tv...and i ve seen 2 report into adventures,the first one about a person that attempt to across Africa West to Est by the desert with 3 camels he aboandonned in the Tenere desert and got rescued when a too powerfull sandstorm was on him.
The second one is about Andrew McAuley,a great adventureer,alpinist,navigator
,kayakist,he died while he was 30kms from the coast in New Zealand he wanted to aross from Australia to New Zealand by kayak "The tasmanian solo",1600kms throught the Tasmanian sea,betwen by the very rought 40° lat,and gone in the same time...the name of this report is Lost in the Tasmanian sea, and I recommend it to all the adventurers.
I ve lately meet Julie again ,Julie witch is florist and working in Ribauville,she wanted to cycle with me for a bit ,and we done about 250km toghether from Delemont to Annemasse we did sail over the Leman and bath in it !!!!
It was the first time that a lady came with me for some days,it was intersting ,she wanted to experience what is like to travel cycling ,I think she enjoyed it,but as she said she need more organisation when she travel,she might travel back cycling again some days....
Right now in Divonne les bains just by the border with Switzerland ,and Geneve very close ,I ve meet again the cuple of hitchikers that I have first meet in Irland ,Aurore et Thomas ,a lovely cuple ,had a great laught last time in Irland near Bushmills and the Giant Causeway with them,so I stop to pay them a visit,just arrived when there was a BBQ and friends were there,well friends here are the neighbourg here,the builing is called the Coccinelle,cause it is an old hotel,now sold in pieces,why the cocinelle??cause the first owner when open on of the first time the windows saw coccinelle,the coccinelliens are nice peoples,Aurore and Thomas own their appartement and ruffurbish it themselves,except electricity,water work and tiles,and it does look nice !!the ambience in here is like a student hostel let say...
I will enjoy my time here till monday,I have to find my route ,and I wish to see some mountains in the Alps, well,it s what I am gonna see now...