about us about Andreas about us: Jens
I grew up in the Taunus Mountains which is
- 18.10.1967 born in Detmold Westphalia
- 1974-1978 primary school Kelkheim
- 1978-1984 secondary school Kelkheim
- 1984-1987 apprenticeship as technical draughtsman and electrician
- 1987-1988 matric in Hofheim
- 1988-1990 social service at Catholic Church Bad Soden
- 1990-1991 cycling tour through Africa
- 1991-1992 worked for Siemens Cape Town
- 1992-1993 back to Germany for a year to study social science
- 1993 founding of African Bikers Tours
- 2000 married to Sonjia Gideon
Interests: travelling, cycling, hiking, running, politics, history (especially South African)
“Since childhood I wanted to go on a long cycling journey. I took a piece of string, measured 12000km on my globe, pinched then one end into Frankfurt and checked the results. It ended up in up in China, than in South America and in the end at the southern tip of the African continent.”