But their journey turned into a nightmare on the night of June 12 to 13, when Israel bombes several Iranian sites. About 150 km from Tehran, Fanny and Maxime sleep in their tent when they hear the first missiles. “Finally, we continued a little. We did not hear explosions. At one point, we saw a huge column of smoke rising in front of us. Was it an explosion? We still don’t know. 100 kilometers from the capital, we planted our tent for the night”explains Maxime.
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The next day, the shots intensify. “We had never seen that. Did they go away? Or were they coming to us? Impossible to say. It was an extremely unpleasant feeling. Even if they go away, you know that they will do damage elsewhere. It is only at this time that we understood that we were in a war area. There were many, so we decided not to continue towards Tehran the next day “continues the Brussels resident.
The couple learns that the borders may close and decide to turn around on a bus. “We were a little disappointed, because it meant returning to our steps. But obviously, it was a lesser evil in this situation. Once on the way, we learned that the final destination of the bus had been bombed. He therefore stopped in another city. From there, a 70 -year -old man led us by car to the Armenian border.explains Fanny.
Arrived safely in Georgia, they are today torn between the relief of having come out and the guilt of having had to leave a people in an emergency.
“We both want to go to Nepal. It is our big dream. We wanted to get there only by bicycle, without any other means of transport. But the war has decided otherwise. We will now ask for a visa to cross Russia, taking two buses and a train to Kazakhstan. And there, we will go back in the saddle.”
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