Big heartbreaks make you do weird things. Like going on a bicycle for a year and a half. To forget a romantic breakup, Nazairian Antonin Crusson got on his bike. “I had no job, no girlfriend, no connections, so I left,” he says on the phone.
“Not particularly a traveler”, he continues the project imagined with his ex-girlfriend and sets off on the asphalt on June 15, 2023. Starts with Bordeaux, continues with Toulouse, La Ciotat, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania. Arriving in Greece in November, he spent the winter in Athens and fell in love with a young woman, also a cyclist. “So we drove together to Marseille. We said goodbye at the airport: she left by plane this time. »
On his way back to France, the 28-year-old young man was, Monday, November 11, near La Montagne and will cross the Saint-Nazaire bridge, this Tuesday, 12. Before meeting his family and friends, Place du Commando , at 5 p.m. “My friends are waiting for me to do the last three kilometers and complete my 9,000 m journey, all round. » And the girlfriend I met in Greece? “She’s coming to see me in two weeks. But by plane. »
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