The heat is still intense in the northern Peloponnese. On the first leg from Corith to Diajofco it was stifling. Today on the Diacofco to Patras run it has rained heavily all day which made bicycling more bearable. At least unlike last year it was warm (and raining) rather than cold (and raining)!
They are having dinner in a pleasant taverna on the shores of the Ionian Sea. Tomorrow they embark for Bari in Souther Italy and the last phaase of their Odyssey
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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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