BIKES!

We've bought bikes!!! So wonderful to sit on a bike again when we tried some out. We ended up with a pair of used mountain bikes but still in very good condition - and with suspention and 24 gears and disk brakes. =D (And all the other goodies the nice men in the shop threw into the deal.)

Ain't they great?! A's to the left (red), mine to the right (white).

Biking home through the massive rain and on streets turned into small rivers was not so fun, though. But I - and A - look very much forward to go exploring on our new bikes, both in the city and in the country.

We wonder whether it's possible to take our bike to the Palestinian territories (e.g. to the Dead Sea and to Galilee) - cus there isn't really room for a bike through the walk-through-parts of checkpoints. We asked a local friend later, and after telling us nobody biked so long distance and we were crazy to try, he admitted that we would look odd enough to get through with it - obviously tourists with our fair complexion, and on bikes!