2008

I cycle to Aleppo early in the morning; the road as usual was narrow and very busy as it was the only way from Latakya to Aleppo, the drivers are mostly crazy on driving at the roads unfortunately………..

2 long up hills were on my way to Aleppo, the weather was really good as the area was mountaineer and forest, but the trucks pollution made me nervous most of the time on the roads. I was so tired and the weather was really hot, at noon time, I found a mosque and I got in to rest for a while, I took a nap and started again to cycle heading off to the city before Aleppo named Edlib, at the entrance of the city I met a couple road cyclists who where coming back of training, we chatted for a short time and we cycle together until the first square and then we got separate, I was cycling in the town to find a good place to eat,

then by chance I met an Iranian who was working in that city with some other Engineers, they were living in a same apartment, he got happy to see an Iranian in Edlib as a tourist, then he invited me to stay with them for over a night, I accepted his invitation and I got the apartment address, then I went there earlier than he arrive lol lol, in fact his roommates was surprised to see me as well, I stayed there for over a night and in the morning I left that nice people in Edlib to Aleppo at 9:oo am, it was around 12:3o when I arrived in Aleppo, again I went to Al Gawaher hotel where my friend works there, he and his workers got happy to met me again,