“I missed home a little”

Arrival at Place du Commando at 5 p.m. sharp. Even after a Cycling trip of almost 9,000 km, Antonin Crusson is punctual. Having left the port city in June 2023, the 28-year-old Nazairian completed his journey across Europe on Tuesday November 12. On the birthday of his father and his maternal grandmother smiled his grandfather Jean-Claude Chemin, among the fifteen people who came to welcome him.

Relatives, but also friends who did not hesitate to get on their bikes to complete the last three kilometers alongside him, after the 44 already covered during the day. We will go to Villès-Martin explains Antonin. Before returning to the skate park, where his parents live and where he used his first boards as a kid. The advantage of cycling is that you go at your own pace, but I still missed home a little smiled the budding adventurer, who was setting off on a long-distance journey for the first time.

Love found on the road

The perilous plan turned out to be without a hitch, or almost. Just a flat tire smiles the person concerned, who draws lessons from this journey which took him from Bordeaux to Turkey via Toulouse, La Ciotat, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and even Greece : I realized that I couldn't see myself living abroad.

Antonin Crusson, on the other hand, has acquired a taste for adventure and has not ruled out leaving again one day. Especially since the young Nazairian found love before taking the road home. In Athens, where I decided to spend the winter he smiles. It was difficult to leave each other, but she is coming to Saint-Nazaire in two weeks.