Tour du monde à vélo couché. Round the world on recumbents

Yeniçaga - Unye ... 21/07 - 29/07 We leave early, there are still some uphills waiting for us. Benoît goes first, goodbye! But after a turn in the road, we see a small silhouette far ahead ... he has decided to wait for us one last time! Today the scenery...

Istanbul - Yalova - Yeniçaga ... 18/07 - 21/07 The 4th person in our room, a Brasilian girl, snores a lot. The only times we can sleep is when Benoît shakes the bed so that she changes position! But just before dawn, the muezzin starts praying and 1/2h...

Istanbul ... 14/07 - 17/07 On Tuesday morning, just when we are about to leave the hotel, we get more bad news:"Your application for the iranian visa has been rejected!" ... Why?? "Top secret" says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... Hum ... We don´t...

Istanbul ... 08/07 - 13/07 Loukoums, baklava, harem, bazaar, kilim, Constantinople, Byzance... All those words we have been dreaming of are just a few hours away. We are going to Istanbul, mythical city, torn between Europe and Asia. We arrive early in...

Tuttlingen - Dillingen ... 19/05/08 - 25/05/08 We leave the Rosengarten hotel full of energy thanks to the breakfast and most of all the inspiring conversation we had with the owners. It's still raining but the road is supposed to be flat as of now ......

Gardanne - Grenoble ... 14/04/08 to 30/04/08 We leave Gardanne on Monday afternoon, quite late. We are not sure we will find a campsite on the road and we won't reach our original first stop tonight ... good start! After about 20km, we stop in front of...

Dismantling and packing your bike Everybody has his own way of packing his bike and there are a lot of discussions regarding whether it is better to fully box your bike or just partly protect it so that the people carrying it take better care of it. As...

This was one of our biggest questions before going on our trip. It is different in each country: hotels in Europe are too expensive for long-term cyclists but within the budget in South-East Asia. You can camp almost anywhere safely in Japan but not in...

We wrap all the electronics (laptop, Palm, cameras) in clothes and store them in the bags under the seats. The suspensions absorb the shocks of the road. We always lock the camera lens. Bicycle computer We got a wired computer (Cateye) because we heard...

Stove We are rather happy of the Primus Omnifuel . We can cook with fuel or gas but, for cost reasons, we use mostly fuel. Gas is good to clean the stove. We had several problems at the beginning of the trip, not always easy to understand the causes....