{"id":521,"date":"2026-04-03T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/my-travels-and-my-bikes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:30:04","slug":"my-travels-and-my-bikes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/my-travels-and-my-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"My travels and my bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1>My travels and my bikes<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row preset--module--divi-row--5138c454-be54-4233-bd3b-f8e6a8747976\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough preset--module--divi-column--73121f80-a3ef-4484-8763-c3f18e3c56d2\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_image_sticky et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-image--1cc6152f-565c-4c4d-b0c9-cf8c9576c341\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1ere-couverture-300-dpi-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Front cover\" width=\"1727\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1ere-couverture-300-dpi-scaled.jpg 1727w, https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1ere-couverture-300-dpi-1280x1897.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1ere-couverture-300-dpi-980x1453.jpg 980w, https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1ere-couverture-300-dpi-480x712.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1727px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-462\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough preset--module--divi-column--73121f80-a3ef-4484-8763-c3f18e3c56d2\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-text--2c55a9c4-feed-423b-9edb-ae0b5b365cac\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>I started making miniature bicycles during an eight-year trip around the world that I took while hitchhiking with my wife, Maryvonne. We took a chance that by trading our labor for room and board, we would gain access to the heart of families, sharing their daily lives, celebrations, sorrows, and joys for a few weeks or months. The doors to their homes and lives opened wide.  <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve set down our backpacks in various corners of the globe\u2014in a village on the Ganges Plain, in the Bolivian highlands with the Aymara people, as well as in Japan\u2019s megacities and the Australian bush.<\/p>\n<p>We recounted this extraordinary human adventure in a book titled *Huit ans autour du monde* (Eight Years Around the World), published in French and Esperanto, the international language, under the title *Ok jaroj \u0109irka\u016d la mondo*.<\/p>\n<p>Book available from Bruno Robineau \u2013 brobineau @ orange . fr (remove spaces)<\/p>\n<p>or <a href=\"https:\/\/butiko-esperanto-france.org\/geographie-voyages\/436-huit-ans-autour-du-monde.html\">https:\/\/butiko-esperanto-france.org\/geographie-voyages\/436-huit-ans-autour-du-monde.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the eye, there\u2019s the ear, there\u2019s the heart. This journey and this story have it all.\u201d J. Gicquel, journalist and author of *Tour du Monde de l\u2019Enfance*.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velo-du-bonheur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}