Today was a “recovery” day after yesterday’s exertions and we all needed it. Although I don’t know how anyone else would define a “recovery day” in the context of what we are doing, but it was another 36 miles in 2 hrs 40 of cycling at an average of 13.4, hardly a light days work […]
Wednesday 14 October 2015 – Day 5 – Dead Sea to Yeruham; The Scorpion’s Ascent
Today was always going to be the hardest day of this trip. It is dominated by a huge amount of climbing up from the Dead Sea, leaving the Judean desert and riding into the Negev desert. The big climb of the day is Scorpions Ascent on an ancient trading route over a mountain ridge, followed by another […]
Tuesday 13 October 2015 – Day 4 – Along the Dead Sea’
We had a lie in today! Up at 6.30 for a 7.00 kibbutz breakfast and on the road by 7.45. Yesterday we rode through probably one of the most contested pieces of land in the world, although it was quiet and peaceful […]
Monday 12 October 2015 – Day 3 – The Jordan River Valley
Last night there was such banter about “keeping together” as a group all day especially Stuart explaining the benefits of this to Richard R. The topic was discussed not once but several times and ended up with a photo being taken at dinner whether we could keep together all day. We haven’t discussed the definition of […]
Sunday 11 October – Day 2 – Sea of Galilee to Kfar Yechezkel
One thing I want to add to yesterday was a discussion about food, what else? We asked Assaf if we should eat at the kibbutz or in a nearby restaurant. He just shrugged, leaving the decision to us. We wanted some more information on the kibbutz restaurant and asked what the food was like there. […]
Saturday 10 October 2015 – Day 1 – Metula to the Sea of Galilee – The Far North
Firstly and thankfully I did sleep well and feel a lot better today. My prayer in the note I left in the wall must have been heard!! Here I sit at the end of our first day cycling on the Veranda of our very nice kibbutz hotel overlooking the southern shores of Lake Tiberius. Lake […]
Friday 9 October – Travel Day and Friday Night at The Western Wall
So here we go again. Lads adventure number 4, 3rd bike ride. Months of training over, excited and apprehensive but really looking forward to the whole thing. The alarm went of at some ridiculous time of 3.45 this morning and after I struggled out of bed and started to get ready, actually felt quite excited […]
Neil Driver’s 425 Mile fundraising cycle ride
On 9 October I leave on my latest challenge. This time it is a 425 mile cycle ride from North to South Israel. This challenge will be for 8 days of cycling. One of the reasons is to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK. Click here for Neil’s giving page. All donations will be most appreciated. […]
Day 4 – Arrived in Paris -Saturday 21 June 2014
We have arrived in Paris!!! Amazingly the day passed without major incident, although it started in usual comical fashion with Stuart going the wrong way out of the hotel car park! We cycled in glorious weather through lovely open countryside but the last 20 or so miles were through the suburbs and into Central Paris. […]