Posted on 04/21/2021 2:44 p.m.
Sassetot-le-Mauconduit. Steve Lucas, indefatigable globe-trotter of the Gaia society, presented his bike ride in Mongolia to the inhabitants of Les Pâquerettes.
An attentive and defeated audience at Daisies.
Steve Lucas and his wife, Mirjam Jullien, have been cycling the world for nearly 25 years. In all the countries visited: Malta, Vietnam, Cambodia, Jordan, Argentina, Mexico, Lapland, USA, Australia … these tireless backpacks make a documentary that Steve Lucas presents to schools, companies, cultural centers, retirement homes. .. in Normandy, but also in Brittany, in the Paris region and in Switzerland. About twenty inhabitants of Les Pâquerettes recently attended the screening of it filmed in Mongolia, one of the countries of its 2014 flight between France and Japan, traveling 13,000 km in eight months.
language barriers
“The nomads went out of their way to welcome us into their yurts and share food with us, including Mongolian cheese. The difficulty of the language barrier brings people together out of mutual curiosity rather than estrangement,” said Steve Lucas. During the screening of about forty minutes, everyone traveled the land of Genghis Khan: steppe, Gobi desert, Naadam festival, colorful with wrestling, archery, horse racing …. Not to mention Ulaanbaatar, the capital, where you go from nomadic life to modernity. civilization … Steve Lucas, who is also a freelance writer, offered the inhabitants dreams, before answering the many questions of the inhabitants, a moment of exchange and sharing around a trip.