Sunday November 9th

Remembrance Sunday

Today we climbed Mount Sinai, on a glorious sunny day. There were at least three thousand stairs, but obviously as hardened cyclists we ran up with light heart and bouncing step. On the top was a church which was not open, and we heard a reading of the giving of the ten commandments. Brian showed admirable stubbornnness and Mark's Knees came down by themselves in an epic descent of Ben Hur proportions.

The group have really gelled and are wonderfully mutually supportive - we have educated one another in all kinds of ways, most of them regarding the many similarities in our religions and histories.

Ruth's desire to be a hermit was noted as she disappeared over the rocks to sit in silence, before being summoned for the photo you have seen

On the way down we reached 11am UK time and stood for 2 minutes in silence after Ed had read the words of the poem Remembrance, scrawled on to a luggage label from the combined memory of several trekkers.

So this was our rest day - a mere 3 hours climb and 2 hour descent. we are of course filled with happiness at the thought of 100km tomorrow, and thrilled at our proposed 8am start.

ONwards and upwards

 

Mary Selby
happyselby@btinternet.com