Arrived in Piraeus after a pleasant ferry from Cyprus. Bicycled from Piraeus up to the centre of Athens. Greeks mad drivers! Survived the Athenian traffic. I wonder if Pericles ever had the same problem 3,000 years ago? Probably.
After a bit of sightseeing they took off for the first leg of three days across central Greece to Patras. The road out of Athens was pretty dangerous and they started their ride on the outskirts of Greater Athens to Corinth. Across the isthmus to the city at the top of the Peloponnese. It is very hot there at the moment - up in the 30s centigrade. Lots of water taken.
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Gerard and Edith de Lisle are riding from Tower Bridge in London to Jerusalem in summer 2008 in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care of the UK.
The Great Trip
- London to Jerusalem
- Gerard & edith de Lisle are following the route set in the Middle Ages by the great medieval writer Matthew Paris. This goes from London through Northern and Eastern France. Crossing the Alps via the Mont Cenis Pass (where Hannibal crossed a couple of millennia ago). The across the Lombardy Plain of North Italy to the Via Emilia (an old Roman Road) which skirts the northern edge of the Appenine Mountains of Central Italy to hit the Adriatic Coast. South along the Adriatic to the port of Bari in south east Italy. Ferry to Patras in the Greek Peloponnese. Along the north of the Peloponnese Peninsula across the Isthmus of Corinth to Athens. Take ship from Piraeus (the port of Athens) to Limassol on Cyprus and then hop on again to Haifa in Israel. South along the Israeli coast then up the Judean hills to Jerusalem. This exploit by Edith & Gerard follows on from a 1500 miles ride from their home in Leicester to the Christian shrine of Santiago de Compostella in Galicia, North Western Spain. They are coy about their age but Gerard and Edith have two sons (age 49 and 51) and six grandchildren (aged 22-17): they are not spring chickens!!!
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