![I hit 6000 km on the road a bit before Tan Tan, in the Sahara. The heat, the raindrops, the sand in the mouth, the fast trucks on a narrow […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/20130306_003-150x150.jpg "6000 KM !")
![I am leaving Nkob late and with bad luck: there is wind and it’s against me. Perfectly against me. I revise my ambition downward and will try to just make […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-fighting-the-wind-DSC_6604-150x150.jpg "Fighting with the wind")
![Now on the main axis Errachidia – Agadir, this very long road, crossing Morocco from west to east between the High Atlas and the Middle Atlas, my plan was to follow […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/03/featured-jbel-sarhro-DSC_6493-150x150.jpg "Jbel Sarhro")
![There are a few kilometers left until Agoudal. The road is still nicely paved. Apparently the surfacing was done very recently, but I doubt it will last for a long […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-highatlas-dades-DSC_6245-150x150.jpg "Down the Atlas through the Dadès")
![I am back at the feet of the mountains, the south side of the High Atlas, in Tinghir. A week ago, I was just on the other side. I contemplated […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-highatlas-todra-DSC_6097-150x150.jpg "Up the Atlas through the Todra")
![I go for a last bye-bye to the sand dunes, as close as I can get with the bike without sinking into the sand. All the Touareg camel guides look […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-fossil-road-DSC_5941-150x150.jpg "The fossil road")
![I take a semi-rest day to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Ziz gorges and return to the hot springs of Hammat Moulay Ali Cherif, this time to visit the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-along-ziz-DSC_5684-150x150.jpg "Along the Ziz to the sand dunes")
![After a breakfast powered by the Vache-qui-rit cheese, something that I am eating more here than anywhere else, I hit the road, for the first time looking like a desert. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-foretastedesert-IMG_1689-150x150.jpg "A foretaste of the desert")
![It is 4°C in my tent when I wake up. I’m in Africa, but I’m sleeping at 1740 m high (the highest night of the trip so far) in winter. It […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-middle-atlas-DSC_5253-150x150.jpg "The Middle Atlas")
![The good times in Fès come to an end and we are taking the road again. The weather is now fine, legs OK, clothes clean, belly full, and the next […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/02/featured-ifrane-theme-park-DSC_5180-150x150.jpg "Ifrane theme park")
![I thought people would come at some point to ask me why I am camping here and I didn’t sleep much. But I wake up without having been visited. On the other […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/01/featured-fes-roads-130128-C-1562-150x150.jpg "Thermal baths and Fès")
![After five days spent in Tétouan, mostly using the internet I didn’t use during the past two weeks, and strolling in the nice medina that I started to know quite well, it […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/01/featured-rainy-rif-130125-C-4930-150x150.jpg "The rainy Rif")
![Morocco is not even 20 km away from Spain, but it’s already whole world away. I am excited to resume on cycling on the roads here, which seemed to me […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/01/featured-first-km-morocco-IMG_1534-150x150.jpg "First kilometers in Morocco")
![Those first 2 months were quite intense. I didn’t maintain a terrific average, at 75 km / day, much below my estimation of 100 km / day. An estimation made on my […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/01/featured-morocco-break-DSC_4890-150x150.jpg "A well deserved break")
![Gibraltar is in mind when I get up, this bit of UK at the southern tip of Spain. Leaving Los Angeles on flat roads gives me a feeling of easiness […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/01/featured-gates-to-africa-IMG_1416-150x150.jpg "The gates to Africa")
![Late December, I can now count the days and kilometers down to my arrival to the edge of Europe. I wake up in my cave after a rest at […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-laststretch-DSC_4132-150x150.jpg "Last hills in Europe")
![On this December 26th, I wake up among lemons. It is still dark. And I will have a long day … Already in a few kilometers, after Albuñuelas, will […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-andalusia-DSC_3926-150x150.jpg "The most scenic day of Andalusia")
![I get up still disappointed by the fact of being in a thermal town, dirty and in need of a rest day. I decide to take the rest “on the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-alpujarra-IMG_1294-150x150.jpg "The fantastic roads of the Alpujarra")
![The morning starts with a visit of the abandoned factory that hosted me. Besides the two small offices looking fairly new, the main structure is a very long building that […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-lost-movie-real-DSC_3611-150x150.jpg "Lost in a movie")
![I passed my 3000 km milestone today in the Alpujarras, halfway between Grenada and Almería, halfway between the Sierra Nevada and the Mediterranean Sea. Well, actually all I see is […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/20121224_001-150x150.jpg "3000 KM !")
![I leave Victor’s house in La Romana for a sunny day in the interior roads of the province or Murcia. It is very quiet and I encounter little traffic. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-lost-movie-DSC_3546-150x150.jpg "Reaching the bottom of Europe: Andalusia")
![I leave Romulo a bit late in Valencia, but more rested, rather well slept, and clean. My batteries are full, my clothes clean and my stove washed. I had a […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-comunitat-valenciana-DSC_3312-150x150.jpg "Comunitat Valenciana")
![I am forced to wake up at 8, during my half-asleep hour between the alarm of 7:30 and the one of 8:30: a dog jumps on my tent, one small […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-valencia-DSC_3213-150x150.jpg "Sea and oranges")
![I am still avoiding the coast, not recommended at all to cycle from Barcelona to Valencia. The road I take, a bit inland, is nicer after Vilafranca Del Penedès. Indeed, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-alternative-coast-DSC_3036-150x150.jpg "A nice alternative to the coast")
![After 3 good days in Barcelona at Laura’s place, spent visiting, catching up in showering, catching up in sleeping and catching up in blogging, I switch on the muscle machine […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-out-of-BCN-IMG_1051-150x150.jpg "Getting out of Barcelona")
![We leave in the morning to catch the train of Cyril in Ripoll. It’s close and downhill, so we have time to have a breakfast of sweet things in a […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-road-barcelona-DSC_2930-150x150.jpg "Hasta Barcelona")
![While entering Spain from Andorra, sitting on my bicycle seat, I was naturally filming the scene: the cars stopping, the signs, a word on the video, etc. Until we got […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2012/12/featured-cadi-IMG_0999-150x150.jpg "Cerdanya with snow as introduction to Spain")
All countries (by latitude)
- Before Departure (6)
- Switzerland (5)
- France (11)
- Andorra (1)
- Spain (16)
- Morocco (17)
- Sahara (9)
- Mauritania (7)
- Senegal (9)
- The Gambia (2)
- Guinea-Bissau (4)
- Guinea (6)
- Sierra Leone (8)
- Liberia (8)
- Ivory Coast (6)
- Ghana (6)
- Togo (2)
- Benin (4)
- Nigeria (7)
- Cameroon (11)
- Gabon (8)
- Congo (6)
- Angola (17)
- Namibia (30)
- South Africa (8)
- Synopsis (9)
Latest adventures
![I hit 6000 km on the road a bit before Tan Tan, in the Sahara. The heat, the raindrops, the sand in the mouth, the fast trucks on a narrow […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "6000 KM !")
6000 KM !
Posted on March 6, 2013 | No CommentsI hit 6000 km on the road a bit before Tan Tan, in the Sahara. The heat, the raindrops, the sand in the mouth, the fast trucks on a narrow […]Fighting with the wind
Posted on March 5, 2013 | No CommentsI am leaving Nkob late and with bad luck: there is wind and it’s against me. Perfectly against me. I revise my ambition downward and will try to just make […]Jbel Sarhro
Posted on March 2, 2013 | 2 CommentsNow on the main axis Errachidia – Agadir, this very long road, crossing Morocco from west to east between the High Atlas and the Middle Atlas, my plan was to follow […]Down the Atlas through the Dadès
Posted on February 25, 2013 | 11 CommentsThere are a few kilometers left until Agoudal. The road is still nicely paved. Apparently the surfacing was done very recently, but I doubt it will last for a long […]Up the Atlas through the Todra
Posted on February 23, 2013 | 2 CommentsI am back at the feet of the mountains, the south side of the High Atlas, in Tinghir. A week ago, I was just on the other side. I contemplated […]The fossil road
Posted on February 21, 2013 | 2 CommentsI go for a last bye-bye to the sand dunes, as close as I can get with the bike without sinking into the sand. All the Touareg camel guides look […]Along the Ziz to the sand dunes
Posted on February 18, 2013 | 1 CommentI take a semi-rest day to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Ziz gorges and return to the hot springs of Hammat Moulay Ali Cherif, this time to visit the […]5000 KM !
Posted on February 17, 2013 | 1 Comment5000 kilometers completed while cycling down the valley and gorges of Dadès from high cold in the High Atlas.A foretaste of the desert
Posted on February 16, 2013 | 7 CommentsAfter a breakfast powered by the Vache-qui-rit cheese, something that I am eating more here than anywhere else, I hit the road, for the first time looking like a desert. […]The Middle Atlas
Posted on February 14, 2013 | 3 CommentsIt is 4°C in my tent when I wake up. I’m in Africa, but I’m sleeping at 1740 m high (the highest night of the trip so far) in winter. It […]Ifrane theme park
Posted on February 11, 2013 | 8 CommentsThe good times in Fès come to an end and we are taking the road again. The weather is now fine, legs OK, clothes clean, belly full, and the next […]Thermal baths and Fès
Posted on February 2, 2013 | 5 CommentsI thought people would come at some point to ask me why I am camping here and I didn’t sleep much. But I wake up without having been visited. On the other […]4000 KM !
Posted on February 1, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe 4000 km milestone while leaving Fès for Imouzzer and the Middle Atlas. Soon time to dig in my panniers for hat and gloves.The rainy Rif
Posted on January 31, 2013 | 5 CommentsAfter five days spent in Tétouan, mostly using the internet I didn’t use during the past two weeks, and strolling in the nice medina that I started to know quite well, it […]First kilometers in Morocco
Posted on January 25, 2013 | 1 CommentMorocco is not even 20 km away from Spain, but it’s already whole world away. I am excited to resume on cycling on the roads here, which seemed to me […]A well deserved break
Posted on January 23, 2013 | No CommentsThose first 2 months were quite intense. I didn’t maintain a terrific average, at 75 km / day, much below my estimation of 100 km / day. An estimation made on my […]The gates to Africa
Posted on January 21, 2013 | 5 CommentsGibraltar is in mind when I get up, this bit of UK at the southern tip of Spain. Leaving Los Angeles on flat roads gives me a feeling of easiness […]Last hills in Europe
Posted on January 19, 2013 | 1 CommentLate December, I can now count the days and kilometers down to my arrival to the edge of Europe. I wake up in my cave after a rest at […]The most scenic day of Andalusia
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No CommentsOn this December 26th, I wake up among lemons. It is still dark. And I will have a long day … Already in a few kilometers, after Albuñuelas, will […]The fantastic roads of the Alpujarra
Posted on December 28, 2012 | 6 CommentsI get up still disappointed by the fact of being in a thermal town, dirty and in need of a rest day. I decide to take the rest “on the […]Lost in a movie
Posted on December 25, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe morning starts with a visit of the abandoned factory that hosted me. Besides the two small offices looking fairly new, the main structure is a very long building that […]3000 KM !
Posted on December 24, 2012 | 1 CommentI passed my 3000 km milestone today in the Alpujarras, halfway between Grenada and Almería, halfway between the Sierra Nevada and the Mediterranean Sea. Well, actually all I see is […]Reaching the bottom of Europe: Andalusia
Posted on December 24, 2012 | 5 CommentsI leave Victor’s house in La Romana for a sunny day in the interior roads of the province or Murcia. It is very quiet and I encounter little traffic. […]Comunitat Valenciana
Posted on December 21, 2012 | 5 CommentsI leave Romulo a bit late in Valencia, but more rested, rather well slept, and clean. My batteries are full, my clothes clean and my stove washed. I had a […]Sea and oranges
Posted on December 17, 2012 | 6 CommentsI am forced to wake up at 8, during my half-asleep hour between the alarm of 7:30 and the one of 8:30: a dog jumps on my tent, one small […]A nice alternative to the coast
Posted on December 16, 2012 | 2 CommentsI am still avoiding the coast, not recommended at all to cycle from Barcelona to Valencia. The road I take, a bit inland, is nicer after Vilafranca Del Penedès. Indeed, […]Getting out of Barcelona
Posted on December 15, 2012 | 2 CommentsAfter 3 good days in Barcelona at Laura’s place, spent visiting, catching up in showering, catching up in sleeping and catching up in blogging, I switch on the muscle machine […]Hasta Barcelona
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsWe leave in the morning to catch the train of Cyril in Ripoll. It’s close and downhill, so we have time to have a breakfast of sweet things in a […]Cerdanya with snow as introduction to Spain
Posted on December 12, 2012 | 1 CommentWhile entering Spain from Andorra, sitting on my bicycle seat, I was naturally filming the scene: the cars stopping, the signs, a word on the video, etc. Until we got […]2000 KM !
Posted on December 11, 2012 | 2 CommentsI passed the milestone in the afternoon while leaving Barcelona. I won 2000 km and the right to continue.
