Across France by bicycle

In June 2007 I cycled from Cap Ferret (near Bordeaux, France) to Geneva, Switzerland. You were my companions for about 1,200km.

This is my first video camera and first video edit. The music is "Dans mon coeur" by Sylvain Piron, distributed under Creative Commons licence from the open source audio collection at archive.org. More such music is at http://www.tradfrance.com

My French is still bad. My longest sentence is "Je cherche un camping pour une nuit " (I'm looking for a camping site for one night). Via Google's translator I think the lyrics are about waltzing away his worries with the one he loves. I just wanted to use something traditionally French.

P.S. Sunburnt and shiny, was the reason for my little performance at the end. It doesn't look so red on YouTube, so it may need this explanation.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• cycle
• touring
• bicycle
• cycling
• travel
• adventure
• tour
• France
• Bordeaux
• Geneva
• Sylvain
• Piron
• Rudolph
• Taletale

[ni654]

What was your distance covered, how many days you did it ?

[natschavez]

hopefully heading to the southern alps this summer. really cool wee film, you definately had the weather lol. france rules.thanks for posting the vid.

[grapessss]

wow, looks like so much fun

[lirpa69]

Beautiful countryside. Beautiful song.

[Taletale]

Thanks. I have a lot more film of that house, but I'll have to get permission from its owners to post it on YouTube. Believe it or not, I was filming in my bedroom there.