By Elliot

Distance: 17km

We got up this morning much more relaxed than yesterday. The place we were staying at had a little kitchen with gas stovetops and kettles, so we didn’t need to use our camping stove to cook breakfast. We luxuriated and even had tea with breakfast! We even used real mugs instead of our camping mugs!

We set out at 8:30am and the walking was much the same as yesterday.

What was great both today and yesterday is that we’ve been lucky to have the wind at our backs the entire time, giving us a boost.

Today we had no rain, Ruth was feeling much better and we made it to camp with plenty of energy to spare. I had some blister pain by the end of the day. When I checked my feet at the end of the day, they looked like they had some weird growths on them. I’ll spare you the picture.

The holiday camp we are staying at is several hundred meters from the beach along a road, which looked like it belonged on a kibbutz.

When we made it to camp, we went to set up our tent and saw a familiar flag flying across the way.

At first we thought it must be Israelis. I feel like you can find Israelis in all four corners of the world, so it wasn’t too surprising. But when I went to ask about the flag, it was not an Israeli: it was a local lady, born and raised. She put up the flag this morning, in support of Israel in its war against Hamas. When you read certain news sources it can sometimes feel like popular opinion is against Israel. But this was a nice reminder that there are people all over the world who care about and support Israel, even those with no direct ties to the country.