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After twelve days of crossing from Greece, and images full of holds, the famous three-masted ship is delivering the Olympic flame to Marseille this Wednesday.
Special envoy to Marseille
Hearts will beat and eyes will drown. In a mixture of pride and a nostalgia that will last a long time. They boarded without knowing each other. Before becoming a little family. Sixteen scouts shared the adventure of Belem , left the port of Piraeus on April 27 to bring the Olympic flame back to France. A crew lit by a small lantern, ready to launch a long journey in France (65 stopover towns including 6 overseas, more than 400 towns crossed; 100 emblematic sites).
Travel diaries. “ The best memories will remain the eruption of the Stromboli volcano and the passage of the Corinth Strait. And, before the crossing, the torch passing ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium which was incredible. No bad memories, everything went well, even the less cool tasks, we took it well, we got through it well »book Nathan Leverd, one of the scouts.
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