Getting ideas

It’s not that easy to walk down from Paris to Jerusalem, even, yes, even if it looks quite easy if you just see some marks on a map making you forget there are cold winters and very hot summers, among many other things once you have put your bag on your shoulders. You don’t remember everything, [...]

Learning from Saint Jacques

We had made many mistakes while walking down to Saint Jacques, so many, that I needed almost three years to take a lesson out of it. I, like all the others, was a born capital dweller who adored even the car smoke and the frightful noise of buses and cars, the full underground at peaktime and [...]

The wolves gang

was perhaps the most appropriate name for the well ordered hooligan club we had formed almost unconsciously. Members of the expedition were thus: from left to right, standing Sonja Kasten (26) born in Madrid – finished maitrise (PhD) in philosophy Paris IV Sorbonne Gregory Leurent (24) born in Angers – third year of philosophy at [...]

The project

Paris, June 29, 1992 – Jerusalem, February 1, 1993, having to walk 4140 Km in 228 days, of which 91 will be of rest, volontary or forced.