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From Shanghai to Paris, 14,000 kms electric car: we did it! The

Well, it summarizes the results we wanted to do on the blog ....

After returning to Earth (so pleasant my faith, it is worse than the red carpet at the Ritz, and we do not talk about cookies, but the Place Vendome hotel), we left convey the car up to Monaco, where the car and the balance of the expedition will be presented to HSH Prince Albert II, the Foundation also sponsored our adventure. (Perhaps a last chance to post ...)

We thank all Internet users, known or unknown, which we have followed and supported throughout the journey. Your comments were a source of comfort every time, and we gave back a smile at times when we did not necessarily want to ...

A special thank you to Gerald , the blog managed to get at short notice, throughout the adventure, while we could not access it. Thank you to Pat which, in the shadows, was our weather router and allowed us to avoid or anticipate difficulties with the weather ... And of course thank you to all those and all those who, according to our steps, helped us to continue the expedition. We keep their kindness in the heart, dedication and generosity.

A special mention to the main sponsors of this adventure, the Foundation Albert II of Monaco and Venturi Automobiles. We could count on their unwavering support throughout the journey, and thanks to them that this project was born.

We embrace you all!

Xavier and Geraldine

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France ... and PARIS !!!!!!!


Incredible! Last border crossing ... We can hardly realize that one key goal.


But we must not relax our concentration. It is the road ... and not the best on the N4 saturated trucks crazy. The last day is this road has once again killed two people in a collision ...

Nothing is easy here. Especially to recharge the car. While our German friends have installed almost everywhere taken 380v here we find very rarely encountered and those that refuse plugs directly into the cabinets. The regulations are inflexible here! But that night a simple decision is not enough! Tomorrow we have to be in Paris, we must at all costs the famous 380v. The hours passed, the doors close one to one ... The pressure is at its peak. Luckily and as always everything will end well. Thanks to Tony, a mechanic in a garage for trucks in Vitry-le-Francois.

Fortunately Tony said yes ... he said no it would not insist ...

In the morning we took the road ... for the last step. Curious feeling of nostalgia mingled with excitement. The adventure ends, the road passes in conjunction with our memories. A few tears of emotion on returning in Paris. But tonight the Great Family awaits us!

But first a little detour symbolic for us. Two years ago we went on scooter from the Eiffel Tower in an attempt to win Beijing!

Then came the triumphant arrival! Place Vendome please! With red carpet at the Ritz and especially family, friends, some famous guests and the press.

was an emotional moment ... It

Gildo Pastor Pallanca (right in photo) who we open the door and he will reserve our first kiss. I think he liked the beard of Xavier!

soon as possible we will return to these last moments with some photos.
you soon then!

GS

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The collective of the Village on Wheels is back from Morocco

Hello All!

Our caravan to Morocco went very well. We returned on May 25 with a head full of images and a lot of experience to develop our project!

We gratefully acknowledge all structures Moroccan who welcomed us and trusted us, and all children and all people we met during this trip, for their hospitality, their smiles and friendliness.

We also thank everyone who joined our project and who have supported us during our evenings this winter in support of Hang'art Mesclavie at Castres, in Ragtime, bar the Little London and the concert hall of Pavilions Indians in Toulouse.

And finally, we thank the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, the device Challenges Youth to Youth and Sports and the Directorate of Youth and Sport and the Association pleaz Wait financially supported us.

We invite you to our events which transcription are expected to fall. We pitched our caravan to the University of Toulouse le Mirail, of October 25 to 29, and the festival O'troc tone ", organized by the association pleaz Wait, from 29 to 31 October on the site in Toulouse Bazacle . There will also be an evening of transcription in the concert hall of one of our partners, the squat association "Flags Wild" and an evening at Hang'art in Castres, the stronghold of the collective.

During these events, we will, as best as possible, transmit the experience of our journey by talking about our meetings, our discussions and our actions. This experience showed us that the meeting the other, whatever its origin, is possible provided that people who have this freedom by taking the initiative.
is because it is possible to build bridges over borders, we link to each other and put people at the heart of our life that we want to continue to make heart keep the project alive.

The Village on Wheels continues his adventure and is already preparing the next caravan 2011 ...

Sincerely, The Collective Village on Wheels

Members of the village on wheels present on this caravan 2010:

Clarensson Mathieu, Benoît Montorier, Sara Lelong, florence Declercq, Mail Gourdon, Samantha Duquesnel Zaguedoun Thomas, Johnny Berens Louam Fessahaye, Jean-Marc Aspe and Yacine Saklab.

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Here we are at the heart of "Garden of Europe" (it seems that it is the nickname of the Czech Republic ) in one of the most beautiful cities in the Old World, to do no doubt ....

Statue on Charles Bridge

Houses in Central Square.

Prague has an indescribable charm, as the mixture of architectural styles (Baroque, Romanesque, Gothic, Art Deco) by its large village atmosphere with its narrow cobblestone streets, colorful facades and hundreds pinnacles and turrets of here and there .... The incredible number of tourists walking the streets reminds us that the holidays have started well in Europe.
Yann, a member of the Association of Electric Vehicles Prague We received like kings and we toured the owner showed us the city, then the premises of its box, which assembles components for electric vehicles ....

Ge and Yann on one of its achievements in electrical construction ....

During the event prepared by the association, we were able to expose the plot on a private Shanghai, with breathtaking views of the Charles Bridge ...

publicity stunt for the Berlingo Venturi .... The big box next to the rear of the vehicle, is one of the charging stations which is in the process of developing the city to perform full energy. And France, where it is ?....


attack was the final straight, it's hard to do ...
Now it only remains to pass through Germany before we find in France ... Curious sense of relief tinged with melancholy, as if leaving a parallel life to resume our ... Finally, we will not shun our pleasure at the end of this incredible adventure Venturi Automobiles allowed us to achieve! If all goes well, and have refined our end of term, we should finally arrive July 13 evening in Paris ....



Beauty and the Beast, alongside their faithful steed .... In the background, the famous Charles Bridge.

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Xav

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Prague Central Europe! KIEV

was an emotional moment ... Maismaismais is the flag of the EU!


No time to digest a boundary that is already in another ... After Poland, the Czech Republic here we are ..
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Here is not the bus passengers in the Urals?


Oh! a two-horse Polish!


first observation locals roll really fast and dangerously. As much as we could complain about the road conditions in Central Asia, as here, the driving behavior that gives goose bumps.

The Shanghai superstar, photographed on the road by the owners of 4x4!


Objectively, it is unfortunately the figures confirm this sentiment: Ukraine has reached the sad record of 9,500 road deaths a year (for a country of 45 million inhabitants). We just arrived in Olomouc and the lady in whom we found refuge tonight informed us that last weekend, there were no fewer than 24 deaths on Czech roads ....

"Tell me, who is the guano on the Shanghai?"


Second observation: this may seem paradoxical, but when we find ourselves in "familiar territory" shall we say, it became harder to get the famous 380. Not that there are fewer, on the contrary, we see all sorts of pretty red indicating the voltage taken coveted.

Gé our son back to European standards, to fear less ....


But it is true that with our 5 son stripped and the rest of our making fondue, people have something to ask questions. Certainly, the interest and enthusiasm for the "Venturi Global Challenge" remains the same, (we lost count of the times when the car is photographed), it's just the whole "doing" seems to be missing .. . Finally, it is certain that we always meet people who also awesome we saved the day when we least expect it though Naturally, as George, we came to see at 19:30 at night, his garage door was open. George is Czech and speaks only Czech. We're not Czech, and we do not speak Czech. Well anyway, in the space of 17 seconds, he understood our request and helped us with enthusiasm ...


George, our savior tonight!


We had time to make a visit to Poland Wieliczka Salt Mine, listed in UNESCO World Heritage site, and for good reason. Sculptures of salt, a subterranean cathedral, dozens of miles driven more than 300m deep ... A wonder ...

A salt cathedral at 135m underground .... Awesome!


Little response to JP about potential tourists that we encountered on the Silk Road (excluding the answer very fair Joel), it is true that we met a small group of French in Turpan, which was the Chinese cities of the Silk Road. At Dunhuang, we also met a group of tourists ... But that's all I have to admit ...
Regarding other backpackers, we did not encounter any. We have certainly met a caravan of 4x4 Chinese, as well as 4 or 5 sidecars, Chinese themselves also and always in the same region (Qinghai-Xinjiang), all green we see this thing evolve in weird and quiet ....

We go now to Prague, where we'll take a little break, because the Electric Vehicle Association of the Czech Republic got wind of our journey and we want to meet ...

soon for more!

Xav

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All good things come to an end, we took the road to begin the last quarter of our journey. But let us Kiev without any probably good memories (no I'm not talking about the fairer sex).
In any case, and undoubtedly the most beautiful city we have traversed so far. The neoclassical architecture, the monumental buildings from the Soviet era and domes of churches give the city an atmosphere that is both antiquated and ambience of a living museum ... Paradoxically, the city seems to bubble up and releases a surprising dynamism!

Church of the Monastery of the Catacombs.


Monastery Saint-Nicolas.



We mingled with dozens of pilgrims to contemplate the mummies of monks exposed inside underground tunnels under the Laure ...

We made discrete, however, is well recognized Geraldine foreground in red dress ....


my beard ... And I can also go unnoticed.


The inescapable centrality of the City, which was the epicenter of the Orange Revolution in 2004 ...

"From this terrace, 6 years of history look down upon you ..."


Alas, thrice alas, has decided to punish us God: Thursday afternoon, Geraldine decided to change the color, thinking the white and green pistachio suit her complexion ... Then it decreed that the toilets would henceforth be his resort for some time. You know what it is, we can only rely on its true amoebas, and that was the case during the 36 hours that followed ... Big reunion, therefore, between Geraldine and his little souvenir of Madagascar won two years ago.
Phew everything is back to normal (and yet, there were, disorder), and we're back on the road ...
And Shanghai? ... A real watch. Star Travel stoically continues to eat up the miles and extend the distance record ... His cool kiss-double effect is always irresistible: first surprise of people who do not get to see an electric car can have already crossed the entire continent of Asia, then stir us to find something to recharge and thereby contribute to the continuation of the adventure ....

in the suburbs Kiev, two brothers and their friends carpenters we can "refuel" in their workshop ....


Poland approach, soon Europe with twelve blue stars! (Well ... it depends on customs).

Xav

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11,000 km! 2nd small balance ...

Face it, this second part of journey was not easy, but just as exciting ...
After the 5,000 km in China, here are the 5000 other crossed in Central Asia, with Kazakhstan, and Russia (Siberia, Urals and Volga Basin). arrived in Kiev, capital of Ukraine , we can now make a second brief assessment of this expedition Venturi Citroen.

After the Chinese deserts, the steppes of Asia, here are the main cultivated meadows ...


First, emphasize the positive: the first trans-Asian electric vehicle has just been completed, and with it the world distance record.
side contact, meetings as beautiful course. the electric vehicle is much more abstract in these countries than it was in China. In Central Asia, it is stressed above all the side "economic" concept, albeit with a liter of unleaded less than 50 cents, one can understand that this is not a problem as acute as in Europe ...
However, most people interviewed were impressed by the high technology related to this adventure. It is true that they say comes from Shanghai without a drop of gasoline, when it lies on the banks of the Volga, it starts to do ....

Each day new progress is a small victory that we celebrate when we can: here, in full camera stolen in a central Russian city, 2.5 seconds before being whistled by the police ... .


Unlike what has been found in China, we saw no trace of development related to new energies. That said, last June 24, Obama and Medvedev on the sidelines of the G8 summit, have agreed to jointly explore ways to find alternatives to fossil fuels. An early ?.... To answer
Redcat the ways we communicate in our trade, they were more than limited. In China, our little knowledge of the language has helped us to get us out of most situations. In terms of Kazakhstan or Russia (as in Ukraine now), it was much harder. English is spoken nowhere. Here Russian is the language that serves as vernacular, or possibly German language back (whew, that was my second language in college, but it was good in the last century, already). Gestures, onomatopoeia, drawings, are the means we used to make us understand. In terms of our critical vocabulary (380, 220, three phase, neutral, ground, amp), we learned a few days, by regular scenarios.

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The most important thing to note is that even in these contexts barrier language, new situation for our stakeholders, and whatever the location, it was possible to find something to recharge our "Shanghai" every day!

Ge and "Shanghai" ready to conquer the last quarter of the journey ....


Xav