He does not go unnoticed on his recumbent bike towing a cart topped with several flags, including the unmissable Gwen ha du. “I am used to displaying the flags of the countries I pass through. It’s important to be seen on the road for safety reasons,” explains the adventurer who completed an 18-month journey on Tuesday October 8, after a final break in Quimperlé, on the route of his last stage between Lorient and Quimper.
With calf strength, he will have covered 18,000 km while towing 50 kg of equipment. According to his desires, the fifty-year-old first headed towards the east of France, then the Canal du Midi before taking the road to Compostela, in Spain, then branching off towards Portugal and returning via Andalusia. “It’s a little trick,” smiles Pierre Boussard.
Already another journey in sight
In eight years, the Quimperois has increased the number of bicycle trips and logged the kilometers. “I have almost 100,000 km on the clock. But there is nothing extraordinary. I do what I love. As I am recognized as disabled, following recurring back pain, I take the time to discover regions and countries instead of staying on my sofa,” confides the Quimperois, still delighted to return home before preparing his next trip, always by bike. This time his journey, planned over two years, should take him again to Spain and Portugal then to Italy, Greece, Croatia and Poland.
