By the sea

Tel Aviv from the highway

Cycling along the highway is certainly not ideal. Yet it does give one a taste of how everywhere in the world people think driving cars is normal, while slowly filling the atmosphere with more (invisible!) carbon dioxide, https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu, which is our demise.

Almost ready to enter Israel on bicycle

I had to reassemble everything outside Ben Gurion terminal

Flamingos?

Today is π-day

An important concept https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devekut

I think it could be called hugging god, loving life, in spanish vivencia “an experience lived with great intensity by an individual in the present moment, which involves cenesthesia, and the visceral and emotional functions” in the words of the founder of Biodanza.

Cypriot coffeemilk

Looking at mosque from my window

Shabbath shalom yesterday

Good morning from Larnaca

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Philosopher Zeno founder of Stoicism was also from Kition (Larnaka) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Citium

Not to be confused with Zeno of Elea (as I did) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea

On the other, West, side of the island https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-06-02/ty-article/.premium/israel-caps-massive-war-games-in-cyprus-simulating-lebanon-war/00000181-2459-d366-a1f3-acdb72520000

And Turkey rebrands as Türkiye, because other name is for the birds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes-name-to-turkiye-as-other-name-is-for-the-birds

Famagusta is full of old churches some of which are now mosques. GodAllahYahweh can live in all houses i suppose. Even without a roof.

After a long night fishing deeply

Would van Gogh have liked it here?

! Greetings from Cyprus!

Yesterday was a day full of adventures and moments that the future hung in the balance. And last night i found myself on a ship that was going to Cyprus.

Only for four hours the engine did not work. Finally at 2 am we departed. And i slept on the deck intermittently (napshotwise) while eyeing the stars of the milkyway.

The Dutch Foreign Service does not inform one that only a period of 90 days out of a 180 can be spent without extra permits https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/reisadvies/turkije. So when i had checked this in Izmir 3 months ago, i innocently proceeded.

I am grateful for good help from the consulate in Marmaris and from the Turkish Embassy in The Netherlands. Yet until the last moment things were in the balance.

Yesterday i had apparently reached the limit and could have been deported. Grace spared me.

Also i had to test for antigen covid and was inside a Turkish hospital for this. Negative result meant positive on going.

Finally i had apparently booked a ticket from a town 100 km back, for which i would have had to take a bus, from the busstation, 5 km climbing from the harbour.

Luckily it could be changed to a ticket on a cargoship from Mersin to Mağusa (Famagusta) taking passengers. It would only take 15 minutes..i waited for almost 3 hours before i finally got the ticket, one reason being an electricity black-out on Cyprus.

So there i was with at least fifty other passengers for the 110 km trip, that finally happened.

Bye Turkey