Jinji Sadan

Roei Jinji Sadan with his bike Emona cycling around the world

Then people recognize me in Madrid…

     Posted on Sat ,23/01/2010 by Roei Sadan

 The cold weeks that happen in Europe was good to me because I was surrounded by people that loved and care about me. I was happy to spend my b -day with Helena and we had good time together. There are situations that I didn’t think that I will be in my life… One of them was in Madrid, I had an interview with the biggest sport paper in Spain, The Marca, in a country there the people always eat and drink sport its normal that sport news papers are more popular than the normal news… I thought that it will be a short article like 4 sentence with a small photo but I was amazed that the reporter really asked good questions (one of them I never been asked before: “if you were in the land of oz what you will ask from the wizard?”)

 The day after I woke up and went to papers store and was amazed that the guy in the stand recognized me and say to everyone: “this is the guy on a bicycle!”


he gave me the newspapers as a gift and I was amazed to see me in the
middle page! “don qishot on wills ” they called me and a lot of really nice and important things on the our journey , the people in Spain didn’t understand how bicycle came for the middle page in Marca and it’s not the Spanish champion of the you’re the France Contador… I was in happy shock to see this. The time had come and I needed to go and break again from Helena and to the journey. It’s always hard to break up from someone that you love and to go to the unknown. It was important for me to be in this “normal” life for a month,to learn from my mistakes and to work on my disadvantages in the domestic life. I will not give too much words on the breakup but imagine you kissing good bye your love ones and get on the bicycle to the unknown journey. It’s not normal to let go from the one that you love but there is things that bigger then you and me. Life is bigger than us. Now I am in La Corunia on the Atlantice coast of Spain and ready to go to the unknown. This city is very nice and there is many things to see.

 Love you all
Jinji
La corunia Galicia
Spain
Europe
The world

On road again…

     Posted on Fri ,08/01/2010 by Roei Sadan

It looks like Look a time out from the world, I know that and happy that I could do that after Africa and the short and very busy visit in Israel. I am still excited when I think about my welcoming friends and family in the airport in Tel Aviv, big signs saying “welcome jinji” and people that have a fake orange beard on their faces… It was a magic moment and it felt like this all the 10 days in Israel, meeting with the media and important people for the future of the journey and important people for the past and the future of my heart. In the first evening we had my “half world party” it was really emotionally time for me and I was confused to see most of my friends and family in one place in front of my eyes and in a touching distance and not thousands of kms in my mind. I think that it was my biggest moment in my life (yet) and was happy to share it with many people that came because the journey is also there’s journey. Like every meeting with good friends after 5 minutes it’s the same jokes and the same feeling, sometimes it felt like I didn’t cross half the world and two and a half years just gone. I didn’t think that my journey will touch so many people from all the types and ages in my country, people came to thank me for the inspiration that I gave them and I felt like they push me to my and our dream. It was really busy I slept for only 4 (not so good ) hours in a night and was busy all the day, my friend Erano was my “agent” for the time in Israel and he helped me to be focused on the meetings and the time schedule. We did important meeting with the media and the minister of Diaspora of Israel, Mr. Yuly Edelstein, and we talked how we helping each other on the journey, I hope that it will work better in the future. I didn’t have the time that I wanted for my close family and my good friends but they understand my dream and all the things that coming with that good or bad, happy or sad they are with me. I left Israel exhausted for the short time but very strong for the long term. Some feelings I could not give here on the computer and only in my diary and my book I hope to share them with you all. In Madrid Helena waited for me and for the first week our time was really intense with meetings with the Jewish community in Madrid and also meetings with local students that herd about me and wanted to meet the “crazy Israeli “. Only now after I took the time to understand what I did at the last 3 crazy weeks, I can think about the next chapter in our journey in the cold Europe, I need to prepare myself well before going to the road again. I am so happy that I didn’t feel that I lost a connection to my dream after Israel .I more than want to start my way in the new continents and to touch more people in my dream. In a week or so I will start again to cycle to the unknown to me.
Love you all
Roei jinji sadan
Gandia Valencia Spain
The world