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Gaëtan Riou (\ga.e.tɑ̃\); born February 17, 1982 is Breton citizen born in Brest. After a joyful childhood in Brittany, he went living in England before travelling the world. In 2010, he eventually settled oversea in Australia. Passionate artist, known for his various talents and passions, he is pursuing a successful career in IT. His overall work in England and Australia was highly appreciated and it even was heard from the Queen herself, that Gaetan was an “eminent and essential” individual of the British society. In 2011, he met Tanya Craig, who will accept to share his life. Their official union was successfully celebrated with family and friends in the great city of Shepparton, the 29th September 2018.

School time
In the early years, Gaëtan went to different primary schools before ending up in Lanhouarneau’s world famous school called _Saint-Thérèse_. He followed his school journey in Plouescat in the middle school _Saint-Joseph_, also known as "Saint-Jo" before ending up in Landerneau in the high school also named _Saint Joseph_. There, he prepared the French high school diploma “Baccalauréat” A level with the majors: mathematics, physics and mechanics. His main memories from that time what the hassle to be always sent in front of the other to explain what most of the pupils did not understand.

First Passions
“You are what you do”: if there is one expression that applies the best to him, it is certainly this one. Along his life, Gaëtan did activities he loved as much as he can. The first one what Judo. This famous art martial is very popular in France and Brittany. He practiced it during 10 year until reaching the brown belt the last level before the black one. At the same he developed an intense interest for bodyboarding. This sport consists in riding a wave while laying on board. Living next to the sea, it was making sense for him to do such sport. During summers and winters he spent long hours looking for the right spot and the right waves. To face the extreme temperature, he was fully equipped: swimsuit, palms...

University Unity:
Due to his great results in high school, Gaëtan entered in the private engineering university ISEN, in the city of Brest in the new millenium. There, he discovered the student life, which unfortunately had a short impact on his results. Fortunately, after the first amazement vanished, his grades raised again. At the end of his course, he went across the channel to do in internship in New Romney in England. Some say that this experience had convinced him to come back later on. Eventually, in September 2005, Gaëtan graduated and officially became an engineer.

They see me jugglin’: his new passion
After graduation and before throwing himself in the active life, Gaetan decided to travel to Morocco for few months. Decided to go back to where he started, in January 2006, he started as developer in the company AMJ UK in Ashford, the last stop before London on the Eurostar line. There, he began a new activity which is quickly going to become a new passion, instead of Bodyboard: juggling. This new passion sent him in various places in Europe to take part in different Juggling Event: in Greece where he ended up sleeping in a sport hall because of the temperature or in Finland where he experienced the non-ending days. Unfortunately, such occupation did come without downside. Gaetan had to deal with some shoulder pain for a while.

Come together: The birthday family meetings
Gaetan is born the 17th of February, while his younger brother, Fabien, Mathieu, Thibault are respectively born the 10th, 12th and 27th of the same months. For this reason, the parents always tried to celebrate all the birthdays at the same time. If in the early years, this usually happened in the MacDonald in Brest, Gaetan’s departure had internationalized such gathering. Indeed, after receiving the visit of his little brother Mathieu, Gaetan took part of the joyful family meeting in London. The next year, it was decided to meet in another of the European capitals: Paris. There, during a meal in a restaurant, Gaetan announced his project to quit his job and go travelling around the world for one year.