February 11, 2026 · Helio Diamant

New year in Warsaw

It took me a long time to find the time to write this down on this blog... it comes out that retirement is a very difficult life... :-D - maybe this is the reason why they say that retirement is the most...

October 26, 2025 · Helio Diamant

Sighișoara and the Via Transilvanica, 2025

It is October 3rd, 2025, and I am again at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, this time with my wife Lili and heading to Romania. Last time I was here was on July 10th, and I was heading to India for...

August 10, 2025 · Helio Diamant

Riding the Himalayas - The Ultimate High Altitude Adventure

​Introduction It is 04:30 on the night of July 10th, 2025, and I am at the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, waiting for my Ethiopian Airlines flight to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, with continuation flight...

January 25, 2025 · Helio Diamant

RIDING ISRAEL: The Western Galilee After the War

The war with Hezbollah in the North of the country is hopefully over, and I had the chance to go out to visit the most beautiful part of the country (in my opinion) and see what the war had done to it....

December 17, 2024 · Helio Diamant

Summarizing 2024 - if it can be summarized

2024 was not an easy year... and probably that's why you haven't seen something very big appearing here at the blog. The year was mainly defined by the trauma of the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack to...

August 28, 2024 · Helio Diamant

Ride Vision: protecting the motorcyclists from themselves

(DISCLOSURE: I am NOT a Ride Vision employee, have NOT received any sponsoring from them, and bought the system in question here just as any regular customer. This article and the video published by me...