Here are some of the men, women and dogs that you’ll meet in Israel when you scan the QR codes in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean which was published last month and is available on amazon.
The Idiot meets some friendly cyclists from Haifa at the closed Israel-Lebanon border on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Idiot joins his longtime Israeli-living-in-London friend Michal Shor-Knipe in Jerusalem.
The Idiot and Michael Knipe, a former Middle East correspondent for The Times of London and editor of the second and third volumes of The Idiot and the Odyssey series, make a new friend in Haifa.
(Photo: Michal Shor-Knipe)
The Idiot joins some Israelis under their tent on the beach for shakshuka, a Middle Eastern dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, chili peppers and onions that is expertly spiced with cumin.
(Photo: Michael Knipe)
The Idiot becomes a Teenage Millionaire on the beach south of Haifa.
(Photo: Michael Knipe)
The Idiot MedTreks and talks politics south of Netanya with pregnant lawyer Sari Amrusi-Yishai.
(Photo: Michael Knipe)
The Idiot quietly observes an Israeli and his dog taking a “swim” north of Tel Aviv.
The Idiot suggests to a member of the Israel Defense Forces south of Tel Aviv that she join him on the MedTrek. She doesn’t.
The Idiot and his MedTrekking niece Sara Stratte celebrate their arrival in Ashkelon.
(Photo: Michael Knipe)
The Idiot winds up in the back seat with a dog while hitchhiking from the Gaza border back to his base camp in Ashkelon.
(Photo: Sara Stratte)
The Idiot wonders whom he’ll meet when he crosses from Israel into Gaza.
(Photo: Sara Stratte)
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