Last year at the end of May I was on my way to buy bread when I encountered the tail end of a little ceremony taking place at the town hall. It turned out to be for a young man setting off to cycle to Scandinavia, and I never got round to recording it on the blog.
Paul Brault, the 20 year old grandson of the owner of the hotel l'Esperance in Preuilly sur Claise, cycled 4000 kilometres in 8 weeks, from Preuilly through seven countries via Amsterdam and Stockholm to Trondheim and Oslo in Norway.
He says the journey allowed him to reconnect with the simple things of life, and his days fell into a rhythm based around finding food and drink and somewhere to sleep. The warm welcome he received all the way along touched his heart as much as the immensity and diversity of the fjords. He called the adventure Project Rejsen (bicycle trip in Danish).
His idea was to challenge himself, inspire other young people to take up similar challenges, and to travel in a way that was sustainable.
1 comment:
With a few friends to help him on his way! Good one, young man!
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