Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Andrew's Nicene Creed

Merhaba from Iznik, formerly Nicaea and home briefly to Crusaders and before them the clergymen who put together the Nicene Creed (which, for those who went to College Chapel with me, is what we recited every Sunday).

In recognition of the achievements of the latter, I was going to attempt to structure the day's thoughts in the rather obscure stylistic form of a creed. Unfortunately I'm too exhausted to come up with anything particularly clever, and "I believe in one climb" still seems vaguely blasphemous.

So, not wanting to risk a smiting when I climb up out of here towards Izmit and Istanbul, I can report in plain English that today was a day of probably 15 miles of climbing in 80 miles total, and was rather tiring as a result. The scenery, however, as I hope the pictures below show, was spectacular, the lake view in particular more than justifying the sweat and tears involved in the 4 mile climb - at more than 10% - that got me up there.


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1 comment:

a blogger said...

Hmmm, I thought - "There's a challenge". So I got as far as

I believe in one cog
The faster, the better
Turner of hub and wheel
Of all that moves, uphill and downhill.


And then I thought, oh, that's not going terribly well, is it, so I left it at that.

Ed