From mid-June to mid-July 2010, I travelled through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Israel. For most of the journey I travelled with my youngest son, Andrew, and for the final destination (Israel) my wife, Di, joined us.  This travel diary describes the travels on a day-by-day basis.

Entries were uploaded whenever we could get internet access, which was unfortunately not every day.

All photos in all the daily diary entries can be enlarged by clicking.  For direct access to photo galleries, scroll to the foot of this page.  To start reading at Day 1, scroll to the foot of the page or click the link to the right.