Bike of good hope

I met an architect at the hostel the first week. She works in a very tiny villsge on my way. So I visit her and the now allmost complete project. I am very impressed about the beautiful place they created in only three years. Wish it will turn out the way they planned or better. As I arrive around 11 after an early morning of 30 km on dirtroad I meet Arianna and her group. We are invited to a childrens christmasparty at the place they built. We are invited from 13. We come at

Benin has several religions living side by side. In the small village of 500 they are Catholic, protestant and a mosque is beeing built bext door. Vodoo is not mentioned by my host. I get the impression from a couple of people I have talked to that they don’t really want to talk about Voodoo. Church was warm, concrete blocks a metall roof, some decorative open stones for light and ventiaon, no decotarion, simple wooden furniture yet colorful with the peoples way to dress and

I spend my christmas leaving around seven. It is allready light. I feel free and happy. There is a lot to look at. Small goats, beautiful birds, eagles above the road where I go, children waving happily, big yellow butterlies. Half naked bare breasted women with barels on there head. Children with buckets of 30 litres balancing on there head. After a couple of hours I stop to get a baguet with some kind of fish paste and mayo, a coffee. It is all great. I call my parents and

thought to avoyd trafic...so I left in the night. At ten...so much trafic ha ha!! Anyway, soaked of sweat more of humidity then from pedaling. I am camping in the garden of the orphanage which is further out in the city. Plan to leave before most traffic starts. Puh...so hot... Ha ha, that night was very wet and humid. Woke up at four finally, still all wet from humidity. I saidhi to the kids as they were just waking up when I was about to leave. I took the road north, only d

90% of the worlds cities are coastal and the urban areas are getting more dense. How will we deal with the water levels geting higher? Will massive amount of people move slowly to areas situated on higher grounds? A move of billions of people? Or will it be a less calm change of floodings and other changes making people refugees? How many refugees? Ganvie was established by tribes escaping beeing captured by fellow tribes and beeing sold as slaves. Ganvie means ”Those who fou

Cricets, a distant frog and hundreds if not thousands of roosters nearby and in distance awakes me perfectly at 5 am. Ganvie is Africas largest community on water, 39000 people on tiny islands and stilt houses. I slept surpisingly good on my thin sleepingbag and a double folded plastic carpet just on top of the one layer wooden planks, the stilt house floor (be aware of your mobile phone...) . The house sometimes moves with a bigger wave from a motordriven canoe passes with i

Yes! :) Appreciated help received! Thank You all! ❤️❤️❤️ 2115 kr collected and 1820 kr spent. So the last days I put time in to finding bicycles...or three tricycles and a bicycle for me. I also engaged some carpenters to do a good job. They made new shelves in one room and a small beautiful wooden table with two benches. Really nice work. A lot better then those in Kenya 4 years ago for the school. This was really nice work. Then also food and utilities for 500 kr. I feel pr

So I am out on the streets of Benin. First day I was on the verge to feel alone and that the trip felt as a misstake. But I laughed about it and thought of my good learnings about life, magic usually awaits in your next moment. Also I felt a bit scared. I know so litle of this country. I feel lost, with my poor french speaking skills and how will I spend 40 days alone. Then I thought, mother earth will catch me whenever I fall. And so I could hold myself in a better mood. Als

It is pretty quiet at the airport. Passing passport Control about an hour before my flight the man behind the glass asks if I am going to Adis Abeba, which is my middle landing. It is one of very few flights this evening. We exchange some sentences of how Covid has changed flying the last half year. I guess this is also why I have been a bit nervous about going on this trip. The risk of geting Covid abroad of course but also being one of the only people traveling these days,

Starting first day at 3.30 in the morning. Early start less trafic especially since the first part is on a highway. In to the jungle on the old road. Saw a big monkey on two legs, looking and walking like some french pantomim artist. :D Around 89 km this first day. Wearing a 15 kg bag on my back. At the end of the day I fell ill and got fever before reaching the start of Anna purna cirquit.