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Some pics about first tests in May -> Saint-Jean de Luz to Irissarry - 80 km.
Today I start the real one! Irissarry to Banuyls les Bains.
First
Let us give meaning to our actions.
It is a page that turns and a chapter that opens. I left my first job last Friday. As you already know, just after my business school, I worked for almost 3 years in a startup positioned on accelerating the energy transition. It made me more aware and concerned about climate issues and the accelerated decision-making it implies. I am now embarking on an introspective journey in search of more ground and more impact. I wish to discover my inner "zirtzil" (see below).
In this article I want to share: the motivations that pushed me to act, how the covid-lockdown accelerated my decision making, my departure from Madrid, and the undertaking of this Odyssey.
Indeed as a lot of people from my generation, I knew that sooner or later I wanted to take a whole year to travel. Last year’s experiences pushed me to make my approach open and share it on the web.
Let's start the countdown!
5 months before the start, Utopicus School
I followed a training course in the school associated with the coworking space where I worked (Utopicus School). It was a 40-hour course that aimed to help us get to know ourselves better, to focus, to speed up, and to connect with others. However, I did not project myself professionally since I was convinced that I needed to make this year's trip. On the last day of the course, I realized that I had registered for this course to find methodologies to organize my journey towards the goal of searching for personal values.
3 months before the beginning, the Covid crisis has been like an opportunity to reinvent me.
I quickly left Madrid to come and confine myself to the inner Basque Country, it had been 8 years since I had lived more than 15 days in the region. This return to my roots has been conducive to beautiful reflections. The confinement gave me time to reflect and slow down. I began to reflect on my past experiences and what I had learned. I realized that I wanted to put it all to music and travel to reconnect with myself and find new ways to express my potential.
I wanted to:
Expose myself and get out of my comfort zone through travel.
Express me on the internet and share it with a community of peers.
Exploring the concepts of happy degrowth through practice, re-enchanting the journey across Europe, moving around by bike, changing time windows to travel, and live differently.
1 month before the start, I have to leave Madrid for good.
The last doubts are felt. I was leaving behind me a young and fulfilled life as a young executive, a city, and a job that I still hold dear to my heart. However, I am 26 years old and I could feel that I wasn’t 100% aligned with my deepest values. I don't know myself well enough and the climatic situation pushes me to take the well-considered risk of going on an adventure.
I want to develop my European identity, explore another lifestyle, boost my determination, and share this humanistic feeling that I have.
Travelling - Starting my odyssey
Our consumerist culture has pushed us to travel to the other side of the world, to explore elsewhere. I knew more countries in Asia than the continent I belonged to. In order to integrate my thoughts into a territory, I chose two playgrounds: the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, both of which have shaped Basque culture, Spanish and French identity, and Southern Europe.
On the 4th of July, I will begin my life as a nomad. Armed with a backpack and a camera, I will carry out my first physical challenge, 900 km of hiking through the Pyrenees, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. In August, I will continue with a cycling trip from the Basque Country to Santiago de Compostela and then Porto, along the Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic Ocean.
In search of meaning - I take up the codes of the Basque carnival and the character of Zirtzil.
I see myself as a "zirtzil", a nomadic nonconformist who wishes to contribute to the renewal and balance of the living ecosystem, as well as to cooperation between communities. By their daring and cathartic nature, zirtzil-s accompany the village in the passage from winter to summer, a time of prosperity and abundance.
Throughout this quest, I wish to write about
Climate change and its local interpretation in Europe
The different ways of being a nonconformist (zirtzil) in Europe
New ways to travel, slow down and become more integrated into the landscape
Specifically:
Cross the Pyrenees on foot (900 km)
Cycling along the Atlantic coast from the Basque Country to Portugal (3,000 km)
Discover permaculture, vipassana meditation, vlogging, surfing, etc.
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Happy to share a part of this inner journey with you
Orain,
Eman diezagun sentsu gure akzioer
Orrialde bat itzultzen da eta kapitulu berri bat idekitzen. Ene lehen lana utzi berria dut. Komertzio eskolatik ateratu eta, bi urtez, transizio energetikoaren akzelerazioan lan egin dut, Parise eta Madrileren artean. Orain baino sekulan klima aldaketak dakarren desafioetaz konziente niz. Ohartzen niz gure deliberoak akzeleratu behar ditugula. Bidai introspektibo bat hasten dut, bidean atxeman dezadan engaiatu nahi dutan forma. Ene barneko zirtzilaren botza deskubritu nahi dut.
Artikulu horretan partekatzen ditut : motibatu ninduten arrazoinak, konfinamendua eta euskal-herriaren eraginak, Madrileren uzteko delibero eta hasten dutan Odisea horren antolaketa.
Presente delako ene belaunaldiko gazteetan, banakien noizpeit urte bat hartuko nukeela bidaiatzeko. Segitu dutan bideak nau pusatu ene iniziatibaren zabaltzea eta interneten partekatzea.
Hastapenetik hasteko,
5 hilabete bidaia hasi aitzin, Utopicus School
Formakuntza bat segitu dut Madrileko coworking espazio baten eskolan. Segituak izan gira 40 orenez gure ezagutza pertsonalaren bultzatzeko, guri buruz ikasi dugu, konzentratzea ikasi dugu, akzeleratzea ikasi dugu eta besteer lotzea ikasi dugu. Hala ere, ez ninzan profesionalki proiektatzen formakuntza horrekin. Nahi nuen bidai urte hori ereman lehenik. Kurtxo azken egunean ohartu niz metodología horietan ikasten nuena bidaiari aplikatzen ahal nuela eta hola joan ene balore pertsonaleen bila.
3 hilabete bidaia hasi aitzin, COVID krisiak oportunitate bat bezela aurkezten da.
Madrile utzi dut Euskal Iparraldean konfinatzeko. Baziren 8 urte ez nintzela bizi izan 3 aste baino geihago ene sortherrian. Konfinamenduak denbora eman data pentsatzeko eta emekiago bizitzeko. Ene experizien bilduma egin eta ohartu niz denak lotzen ahal nintuela bidai experientzia horretan eta horretik konfiantsa bat eta proiektu bat atera
Nahi nuen :
Ene eroso gunetik atera explorazioan berriz ibiltzeko bidaiari esker.
Interneten bidez partekatu komunitate batekin
Exploratu iraunkortasun konzeptuak partikaren bidez, Europar bidaia eta bizikletazko bidaia hedatuz, beste epe batekin bidaiatuz emekiago gauzen ikasten egiteko diferenteki.
Hilabete bat, hastapena aitzin, egiazki Madrile utzi behar.
Azken duder oposatzen niz. Ene gibelean uzten dut bizi eroso eta interesgarri bat. Ene lana maite dut, eta Madrileko hiria izigarri gustatzen zaut. 26 urte ditut alta senditzen dut ez nizala oraindik aski ezagutzen ene baloreekin bakean izaiteko. Gainerat, egoera klimatikoak pusatzen nau arrisku neurtu horren hartzea, aventura berri baten hastea. Ene identitate europearra garatu nahi dut, beste bizi modu bat exploratu nahi dut, ene determinazioa gogortu nahi dut eta partekatu nahi dut sentimendu humanista hori.
Bidaiatu – Odisearen hasteko momentua
Gure kultur kontsumeristak pusatu gaitu bidaiatzerat joaitea munduko beste puntarat, exotiko diren lekuetarat. Ezagutzen nintuen herri geihago Asian, Europan baina. Ene pentsaketak lurralde bati integratzeko helburuarekin hautatu ditut bi josta eremu : Auñamendiak (edo Pireneoak) eta Ozeano Atlantikoa. Biek leku garantzitsua ukan dute euskal kultura, frantses eta español identitatea eta Hegoaldeko Europaren eraikuntzan.
Uztailaren 4ean, nomada bizia hasiko dut, saku bat eta kamara batekin. Ene lehen desafio fisikoa hasiko dut : 900km ibiliz Pireneoak zeharkatuz, Ozeano Atlantikotik, Mediteranear itsasorat. Agorrilean bidaia segituko dut bizikletez, Konpostela eta gero Oporto arte, Cantauri itsasoaren bazterrak segituz.
Sentsu bila – libertimenduaren zirtzil personaiaren kodeak segitzen ditut.
Zirtzil bat bezela kontsideratzen niz, antikonformista eta nomada. Parte hartu nahi dut berreraikuntsan, bizi ekosistemen orekan eta komunitateen arteko kooperazioan. Errana den bezela, zirtzilen ez-ahalgekeriari esker, herriak negutik udarat pasatzen ahal da, tensioneak kalmaraziz eta oreka berriz ekarriz.
Bide horretan aipatu nahi ditut :
Kanbiamen klimatikoari buruzko problematika lokalak
Antikonformista izaiteko manerak Europan
Bidaiatzeko manera berriak, denbora hartuz, lurralde batekin harremanetan sartuz
Konkretuki :
Auñamendiak zeharkatzen ditut oinez (900 km)
Bizikletez, atlantiar kostaldea zeharkatzen dut Portugala arte (3 000 km)
Deskubritzen ditut permakultura, woofing-a, vipassana meditazioa, video blog-a, surfa
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