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While travelling in Venezuella, when I first encountered the extreme unreliability of the locals in developing countries, I invented the SEXA PLANT (MINA TZEMACH) method of orienting: before each turn-about I take, I ask 10 locals, and do complex calculations, which weights their age, gender, look and size of breast (in case the gender is "female"). The map (if I have any) is not weighted much more than 2 old men in these calculation- I think that instead of using expensive means such as sattelites photos, these countries simply pay expressionist artists for drawing their topographical maps.

Churchil, me and the lom: Chosen mails from Bulgaria & Macedonia

Itamar Cohen
2006-02-26 13:50:03

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but now - 1000 different thoughts: ideas for the blog. This is what make the climbing sections to pass much faster.

The Camery Quintet (for the addicted)
Life is something, which works in downhills; put it in uphill - and it won't move.

Thus spake Zarathustra: "ATA, ATA CHAMUD ATA!" (a short one)

Yom Kipur: the provocative version
Milliards of poor people, who saved food from theirs mouthes for raising levies, to be used for the construction of huge redundant temples, mosques and kathedrals; Hundreds of millions of innocent people, who died in stupid religious wars; zero good answers for two simple question: why TZADIK VERA LO and RASHA VETOV LO; and why should I believe that god is Jehuba and not, let's say, Zeus, or Budha, or Uzi Cohen (well, for the last one maybe there is a good answer).
And on the other hand: one day per year, in which secular cyclists can safely ride in Israel's roads.
Sorry, mister God. Even an enthusiast cyclist doesn't accept Yom Kipur as a good enough KAPARA for your sins. Try harder.

Yom Kipur: the (ALEK) philosophic version
1892: God is dead! (Fridrich Nietzche)
1935: Nietzche is dead. (God)

Photo Retzach

While riding on the quite road to Strumica, I saw a large lizard crossing the road (only one of the millions of details, which rushing car tourists can't see).
Of course, I moved it from the road, so that it won't be driven (LEHIDARES?) by the next passing car. While doing so, I realized that it was already hardly wound, and was walking very slowly.
Well, after I saved its life (or at least extended them by a couple of hours), I decided I'm reward to a ask it to model some pictures for me. So now, in addition to hundreds of photos of my bikes hung on bridges, trees and tails of cows, I have got also one picture of a large yellow-black lizard riding my bike.

B DOUBLE-CUISINE
Just a free translation of "Beit Mitbachayim" to English (recall that Beit is the 2nd letter in Hebrew).

SPRING GRAPE
And I've got friends,
But they are also lines
In front of your madding skin
PEIRUSH RASHI: "VEYESH LI CHAVERIM / AVAL GAM HEM KAVIM / EL MUL ORCHA HAMESHAGE'A"
(Aviv Gefen).

Lord of the flies

The People
The locals, who invited me for a coffee, which became a meal, which became an invitation to sleep at their place.
The fruit's sellers in the markets and on the roads' sides, who gave me 2-3 fruit by free (the few times I insisted to pay them, turned to be big mistakes, because now they me by 3-4 kgs of fruit, which I had nothing to do with).
The shoemakers, the sellers in the working tools shop and the bike mechanics, who repaired my bike, my bags and my shows, and many times refused to being paid for it.

Lord of the flies
Once I read an interview with a German guy, who have cycled for 10 years around the world, including many war areas (Israel was on of the least dangerous places, in which he travelled). The nicest thing he said, was that people always 'came out from their fence' (YATZ'U MIGIDRAM) for helping him. Hardly anyone tried to steal from him, and nobody tried to phsically assault him.
For a person like me, who is a very little believer in human beings and admires the book "Lord of the flies", this is a kind of NECHAMA.