![These are two videos I had forgotten to post, and that makes the last article of this website and adventure. In the first one, I have compiled the shots from cycling […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/08/vidAfricanCities_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Insane rides and animals")
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![Waking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_salt-road_3757-150x150.jpg "Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast")
![When I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_tsumeb_IMG0425-150x150.jpg "Tsumeb")
![More than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_oshakati-boring-road-DSC_1457-150x150.jpg "Ovamboland, the boring road")
![Finally! After cycling 1750 kilometers during 23 days in a row, I can finally rest, this early March, based at the catholic mission of Lubango. That was too much, even […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/04/featured-lubango-cristorei_0488-150x150.jpg "Lubango: city, carnaval and Cristo Rei")
![The good side of being out of the bush is that it reminds me of all the pleasures of life, especially food. There is a patisserie in Pointe-Noire and the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/02/featured-pointe-noire_8154-150x150.jpg "Pointe-Noire and the Kouilou, an oil story")
![The French consul takes us to the consulate of Congo in Franceville, and applying for a visa when he sits next to us becomes much easier: the usual requirements and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-exit-gabon_7299-150x150.jpg "Franceville, following in the footsteps of Brazza")
![Yaoundé makes a refreshing stop in Cameroon. Named after its German founder (Jaunde), the capital city spreads along the highway, from the north (presidential palace, embassy district), through the middle […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/01/featured-yaounde-DSC_5652-150x150.jpg "Yaoundé and the South")
![I am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-calabar-3890-150x150.jpg "Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria")
![I am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-nigeria-oshogbo-DSC_3501-150x150.jpg "In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest")
![– “You won’t cycle 20 km in Nigeria before they attack you.” – “You plan to go camping there? Haha, they’ll find your body and sell your organs.” – “Don’t […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/11/featured-nigeria-to-go-or-not_3288-150x150.jpg "Nigeria: to go or not to go")
![Waking up to a techno remix of Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas song is not the best way to start a day. But François walks me to the exit of […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-benin-entrance-DSC_2799-150x150.jpg "Benin for culture and more bad roads")
![So the kassava and plantain banana plantation is to add to my collection of camping in plantations, with olives, lemons and oranges. I get out of my bush early morning, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-towards-accra-DSC_2157-150x150.jpg "Towards Accra")
![Ghana is one of the countries dubbed as “Africa for beginners“, where people are nice and where it is safe and easy to travel. It seems true so far, the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/09/featured-ashanti-empire-DSC_1742-150x150.jpg "Into the Ashanti kingdom")
![I stopped in Yamoussoukro, the capital city since 1983 in the center of the country, mainly to avoid the coastal road and Abidjan where most of the Ivorian population lives. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/08/featured-yamoussoukro-DSC_1456-150x150.jpg "Yamoussoukro")
![The morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/10/featured-ivorycoast2-DSC_1309-150x150.jpg "In Baoulé country")
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![The kids are dressed up for school, in a green or blue uniform, while I load up my bike and leave for Freetown. I have 10 kilometers to cycle from […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2013/07/featured-sierraleone-2-freetown-IMG_2590-150x150.jpg "Freetown")
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![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")
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![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")
![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")
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![These are two videos I had forgotten to post, and that makes the last article of this website and adventure. In the first one, I have compiled the shots from cycling […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Insane rides and animals")
Insane rides and animals
Posted on August 31, 2015 | 2 Comments These are two videos I had forgotten to post, and that makes the last article of this website and adventure. In the first one, I have compiled the shots from cycling […] Cape Town and Good Hope
Posted on May 5, 2015 | 6 Comments The weather was cloudy when I reached Cape Town last week, but today, the last day of August, will be perfect for my last stage of cycling Africa. I want […] C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
Posted on July 20, 2014 | 2 Comments The C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […] Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 6 Comments Waking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […] Tsumeb
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 2 Comments When I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […] Ovamboland, the boring road
Posted on May 26, 2014 | 5 Comments More than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […] Lubango: city, carnaval and Cristo Rei
Posted on May 5, 2014 | 8 Comments Finally! After cycling 1750 kilometers during 23 days in a row, I can finally rest, this early March, based at the catholic mission of Lubango. That was too much, even […] Pointe-Noire and the Kouilou, an oil story
Posted on March 10, 2014 | 2 Comments The good side of being out of the bush is that it reminds me of all the pleasures of life, especially food. There is a patisserie in Pointe-Noire and the […] Franceville, following in the footsteps of Brazza
Posted on February 12, 2014 | 1 Comment The French consul takes us to the consulate of Congo in Franceville, and applying for a visa when he sits next to us becomes much easier: the usual requirements and […] Yaoundé and the South
Posted on January 26, 2014 | 3 Comments Yaoundé makes a refreshing stop in Cameroon. Named after its German founder (Jaunde), the capital city spreads along the highway, from the north (presidential palace, embassy district), through the middle […] Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 11 Comments I am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […] In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 6 Comments I am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […] Nigeria: to go or not to go
Posted on November 8, 2013 | 11 Comments – “You won’t cycle 20 km in Nigeria before they attack you.” – “You plan to go camping there? Haha, they’ll find your body and sell your organs.” – “Don’t […] Benin for culture and more bad roads
Posted on October 27, 2013 | 2 Comments Waking up to a techno remix of Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas song is not the best way to start a day. But François walks me to the exit of […] Towards Accra
Posted on October 17, 2013 | 3 Comments So the kassava and plantain banana plantation is to add to my collection of camping in plantations, with olives, lemons and oranges. I get out of my bush early morning, […] Into the Ashanti kingdom
Posted on October 11, 2013 | No Comments Ghana is one of the countries dubbed as “Africa for beginners“, where people are nice and where it is safe and easy to travel. It seems true so far, the […] Yamoussoukro
Posted on October 5, 2013 | 2 Comments I stopped in Yamoussoukro, the capital city since 1983 in the center of the country, mainly to avoid the coastal road and Abidjan where most of the Ivorian population lives. […] In Baoulé country
Posted on October 2, 2013 | 2 Comments The morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […] Monrovia
Posted on September 14, 2013 | No Comments We stayed for the weekend at the convent in Monrovia, to rest after our adventures in the bush between Freetown and the Liberian capital. Katie and Guillaume took me to […] Freetown
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 5 Comments The kids are dressed up for school, in a green or blue uniform, while I load up my bike and leave for Freetown. I have 10 kilometers to cycle from […] Bissau, the cashew republic
Posted on July 22, 2013 | 2 Comments Leaving Ziguinchor in the afternoon of this Saturday of early June was not a good idea. Before heading to my next country, I had to withdraw enough cash to survive […] Nouadhibou
Posted on April 7, 2013 | 5 Comments The power is down also in the morning, so I must skip the shower again. The whole city being deprived of electricity also means that no internet café will be […] Thermal baths and Fès
Posted on February 2, 2013 | 5 Comments 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 […] First kilometers in Morocco
Posted on January 25, 2013 | 1 Comment 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 […] Sea and oranges
Posted on December 17, 2012 | 6 Comments 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 […] Getting out of Barcelona
Posted on December 15, 2012 | 2 Comments 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 […]
List of posts
Insane rides and animals
Posted on August 31, 2015 | 2 CommentsThese are two videos I had forgotten to post, and that makes the last article of this website and adventure. In the first one, I have compiled the shots from cycling […]Cape Town and Good Hope
Posted on May 5, 2015 | 6 CommentsThe weather was cloudy when I reached Cape Town last week, but today, the last day of August, will be perfect for my last stage of cycling Africa. I want […]C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
Posted on July 20, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […]Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 6 CommentsWaking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […]Tsumeb
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 2 CommentsWhen I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […]Ovamboland, the boring road
Posted on May 26, 2014 | 5 CommentsMore than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […]Lubango: city, carnaval and Cristo Rei
Posted on May 5, 2014 | 8 CommentsFinally! After cycling 1750 kilometers during 23 days in a row, I can finally rest, this early March, based at the catholic mission of Lubango. That was too much, even […]Pointe-Noire and the Kouilou, an oil story
Posted on March 10, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe good side of being out of the bush is that it reminds me of all the pleasures of life, especially food. There is a patisserie in Pointe-Noire and the […]Franceville, following in the footsteps of Brazza
Posted on February 12, 2014 | 1 CommentThe French consul takes us to the consulate of Congo in Franceville, and applying for a visa when he sits next to us becomes much easier: the usual requirements and […]Yaoundé and the South
Posted on January 26, 2014 | 3 CommentsYaoundé makes a refreshing stop in Cameroon. Named after its German founder (Jaunde), the capital city spreads along the highway, from the north (presidential palace, embassy district), through the middle […]Calabar, the gateway out of Nigeria
Posted on November 28, 2013 | 11 CommentsI am now well advanced through Nigeria, I went around the Delta region and I can aim for Calabar. I am no more an Oyihbo but an Oniotsha now, this […]In the meanders of the Oshogbo sacred forest
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 6 CommentsI am an arinaka (or some name like this), a nomad, in Yoruba. That is my answer to people who don’t understand what I am doing on a bicycle in […]Nigeria: to go or not to go
Posted on November 8, 2013 | 11 Comments– “You won’t cycle 20 km in Nigeria before they attack you.” – “You plan to go camping there? Haha, they’ll find your body and sell your organs.” – “Don’t […]Benin for culture and more bad roads
Posted on October 27, 2013 | 2 CommentsWaking up to a techno remix of Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas song is not the best way to start a day. But François walks me to the exit of […]Towards Accra
Posted on October 17, 2013 | 3 CommentsSo the kassava and plantain banana plantation is to add to my collection of camping in plantations, with olives, lemons and oranges. I get out of my bush early morning, […]Into the Ashanti kingdom
Posted on October 11, 2013 | No CommentsGhana is one of the countries dubbed as “Africa for beginners“, where people are nice and where it is safe and easy to travel. It seems true so far, the […]Yamoussoukro
Posted on October 5, 2013 | 2 CommentsI stopped in Yamoussoukro, the capital city since 1983 in the center of the country, mainly to avoid the coastal road and Abidjan where most of the Ivorian population lives. […]In Baoulé country
Posted on October 2, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe morning we wake up in N’gorankro, it seems the kids are waiting for us. The same crowd as yesterday evening is here, under the porch of the house of […]Monrovia
Posted on September 14, 2013 | No CommentsWe stayed for the weekend at the convent in Monrovia, to rest after our adventures in the bush between Freetown and the Liberian capital. Katie and Guillaume took me to […]Freetown
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 5 CommentsThe kids are dressed up for school, in a green or blue uniform, while I load up my bike and leave for Freetown. I have 10 kilometers to cycle from […]Bissau, the cashew republic
Posted on July 22, 2013 | 2 CommentsLeaving Ziguinchor in the afternoon of this Saturday of early June was not a good idea. Before heading to my next country, I had to withdraw enough cash to survive […]Nouadhibou
Posted on April 7, 2013 | 5 CommentsThe power is down also in the morning, so I must skip the shower again. The whole city being deprived of electricity also means that no internet café will be […]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 […]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 […]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 […]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 […]
