St Tekla convent
Christ
Mother Superior of St Tekla convent
celebrating the feast of St Tekla
St Tekla's passage
one of the convent sisters
road from St Tekla's
tea stop
Mar Jacob
delicious home-grown, home-cooked meals at Mar Jacob
Santiago map on the wall of the convent
icon renovation
preparing the next meal
diy evening entertainment
doorways for small people!
bye, Jan (walking from Holland to Jerusalem - mad!)
hi, Christian (Norwegian walker from Austria to Jerusalem - mad)
hi
friendly service manager, St George Hotel
one of just two monks at Elias monastery
the second monk
where I stayed in Jaffa :-)
village church
roadside fast food
tastes better than it looks
this fellow was everywhere in Syria!
crusader castle
tintin fan manages this hotel
last hospitality in Syria
goodbye Syria, hello Turkey
monastery, Antioch
Aussie, Lindsay, at St Peter's Church, Antakya
solitary tree in field
first Turkish hospitality
frosty morning (but I'd stayed in the house)
park, Gaziantep
hotel in Gaziantep
Bircek
cold Turkey
Teachers' Schoolhouse, Hilvan
Turkish teachers
Class 12
Class 11
English teacher, Hande
bus station cafe owner & son
Emin, Kurdish jewellery-maker, Diyarbakir
Orthodox church
Tigris Carpet Shop, Yeni Han Souk, Diyarbakir
+mas 2008
the carpet man also owns a tea-cum-hubblebubble house
Christmas morning, listening to the Messiah
city walls, Diyarbakir
old road out of Diyarbakir
truck drivers at Bismil
passing invite for tea
no, I didn't have to cycle the 20 kms of this 'road'
truckers
Van Golu
my poor bike!
breakdown
leaving the broken-down trucks
Back to cycling on the roads! Well .... trying to
bus station, Orumiyeh, Iran
roommates in hostel in Esfehan - 3 of us are cyclists
bazaar on Friday
Esfehan topiary
cheerio, Tomasz
on their way to school
all cyclists
they flagged me down and gave me a bag of fruit
they flagged me down and she gave me her favourite tortoise
mosque guest room
Persepolis road
muharram celebrations
Persepolis
camping at Persepolis
family lunch_Marvdasht
Samira
Shiraz
host family in Shiraz
muharram celebrations in the evening
tomb of poet, Hafez
grandma at the hubble bubble
bedroom wall
Church of St Simon the Zealot, Shiraz
locked gates to the church of St Simon the Zealot
muharram flags
Sohail and family
muharram dessert
lift-hitching truck
start of spectacular mountain range
family in village of Mourdaq
private palm grove camping
big flower basket
public palm grove camping
Jasmin outdoors
Jasmin indoors
arrestable offence
young motorcyclist
well watered
the well
ferry to Kish
cycle route_Kish
asking the way
like my fetching outfit?
10 minutes' free ride
pillion to a madman
Dolphin Park, Kish
stork
camping on the women's beach
ferry to Bandar Lengeh
some are allowed to swim (if you are male)
storm looming
'owner' of the village
ship's latrine
shipbuilders
our last campsite together
Bandar Abbas
parting of the ways after 16 days of travelling together
mosque_Bandar Abbas
sweeping the mosque courtyard
chador department
my hosts for last 2 nights in Bandar Abbas
Salim and nephew
chador necessary to enter the mosque
Hindu temple
charity box all over Iran
clingfilming my panniers at Bandar Abbas airport
helpful guy in Dubai
view from bedroom
Pat, friend of my father's, who hosted me in Dubai
water taxi
bike on the abra
Robert, Wolfi's Bike Shop
dhows, Dubai creek
old souk
Dubai creek
Mohammed, security guy at the Municipality
Mohammed and Mohammed at the Municipality
letter request for me to cycle the E11
Director of the Right of Way Department
Abdullah preparing authorisation letter
clock tower square
QE2 in Dubai port
other half of my hosts in Dubai
my police escort, Abdullah and Abdullah
The E11 Sheik Zayed Road
2-car escort
escort handover, Dubai to Abu Dhabi police
just had to photo this!
R&R villa, Abu Dhabi, courtesy of the Palmer family
Italian white marble and goldleaf
Abu Dhabi
yes, even here
traditional & modern
Abu Dhabi skyline
Andy, mine host, in front of Emirates Palace Hotel
handtowels
foyer, Emirates Palace Hotel
Old Fort
Julie, Andy, Lucy, Daniel - plus roast meal + wine! THANK YOU
