Grandin n'est pas un marcheur vulgaire, chacun sait ça. Dire de lui qu'il est un marcheur scientifique ne serait point exagérer. Grandin, en effet, est un émule actif - oh! très actif! - d'Élisée Reclus. Outre ses aptitudes peu communes à la marche, Grandin professe, en effet, un goût très vif pour le dessin géographique, et il excelle à dresser lui-même les cartes de ses très intéressants voyages.

In 1908, the Touring club de France announced a contest for walking around the world, with an offered prize of 100,000 francs. Dumitru Dan and his countrymen Paul Pârvu, George Negreanu and Alexandru Pascu were all students in Paris at the time, and they decided to take up the challenge, using their own money and resources.

Da quando ha preso a girare il mondo in bicicletta? Dal '51, risponde lui, quando mi licenziarono dallo stabilimento in cui ero occupato.

My life was fairly typical until around the age of 30. I attended university, got a job in banking and joined corporate America. Then one day I was plodding through some marketing proposal and suddenly became disillusioned with my career and a future that seemed all too predictable.