Gallery - Fly and Roll, paragliding world tour on a bike and sailboat. Olivier Peyre et Nadège Perrot

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Spain CalpeRecord lifetime: 182.51 kms in two on two bikes, one of which weighs 70 pounds its easy. All in the aim to reach the friend Pierre in his villa in Calpe pool. Friendship ... gives you wings

Spain, Calpe, villa PierreAprès 180 terminals in the day, deserved rest. Or "how a world tour by bicycle is not really what we think it can actually be" (and vice versa)

Spain, Calpe, villa PierrePierre and women ... Like what makes cycling attractive.

Spain CalpePierre, friend Peter, a world champion. What sports, how fast!

Spain, region Alicanteun morning, it seems that I have 28 years. so to celebrate, and for once, I ride my bike ...

Spain, region of Almeria. We are now in southern Spain. At the door of Islam. Here is the first mosque encountered. It smells strongly of Morocco.

Spain AlmeriaVillage area in ruins, surrounded by cactus. We declare that this is the end of the stage.

Spain, region ALmeriaENtre buddies road, late stage, we just found a ruined village overlooking the landscape and we will soon be able to blow up the gut!

Spain, Almeria region, sudtroupeau goats in a desolate landscape. Beauty of wildlife.

Almeria, Spain Sudala doors of Andalusia, the region of Almeria, extremely dry and sunny saw huge surge of capital to produce vegetables for the whole of Europe and beyond. Vegetables with a unique taste and bland at low prices and delivery highly polluting and dangerous for human lives (I named the road). Economic Désatres so for small local producers to limit the environmental impact. (See also the documentary film "We Feed the World") farms stretch for Spanish huge cliffside and no lack of aesthetic beauty.

Little chameleon found on the roadside. Vive the bike at slow speed!

Spain AlmeriaRégion mountainous region, the relief cut, climb and descent are our daily bread. My thighs are the volume.

Spain, south coast, the wild crépusculeInto

Manolo: father of a family of paragliders (the two parents and fans are 3enfants), I met this passionate and his band fly to Organya, placed on the landing strip to distribute the watermelon for everyone. He invites me to spend a natural home to Compel (Manilla), in southern Spain. Perched in the mountains, their house is signed by some familiar faces including paragliding Felix Rodriguez and other world champions divers.Mécanicien business, and engineering, we spend several hours to repair the game of my Shimano M324 pedal has mixed in principle can not be repaired thanks to a special tool sold 25 Euros by Shimano and found even among retailers Shimano. They then offer it to me .... to buy a pair of pedals (50E). Good job Shimano. Push consumption and waste, you will not leave the richer! And this is one of the perverse effects of our consumer society: it is more economically viable to produce pedals that produce the tools that make them effective and usable in the long term. Reply by Manolo and me: MADE ON THE TOOL! Shimano Paf in the mouth!

Rock of Gibraltar: the rock is also a British enclave on the Iberian Peninsula. Particular territory, a tax haven, despite its membership in England, it is not part of Europe. We will find this special status in the Canary Islands, they belong to Spain. So there are the cheap oil for boats bound for the Atlantic. Here is a strategic point to the boat stop. But this is not the season and I want to see Morocco. So I continue, come what may!

European last pass: el Puerto del Bujeo, 360m above sea level (always harder end of the stage). <br> Africa! First moments of the first vision of the continent, directly opposite the Rock of Gibraltar, the two vertical limbs impressive guard the entrance to the whole Mediterranean Sea. Hercules, in one of the twelve labors, would have excluded these two arms of the rocks and forged the Strait. <br> Conclusion 1: It is hefty Hercules! <br> Conclusion 2: It has long arms Hercules!

Mediterannee: Tarifa, southernmost tip of Europe. (See photo Atlantic)

Atlantic: Tarifa, southernmost tip of Europe. (See photo Mediterranean) A specific geographic point or two seas adjacent to each other. Get there after crossing the Mediterranean for a month, a sudden cold takes me. The sea air is cold! Indeed currents from the north of Portugal, and brings all the sweet freshness of the pole ... He is as good as Britain, rainy day. Finished the mild Gulf Stream ...

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