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...

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...

August 13, 2024 · Helio Diamant

Sicily, 2024

OK, 2024 was already here, and it was time to take a vacation. Our friends, Louisa and Shmil, were unable to participate for personal reasons, so this time we decided to go alone. The destination chosen...

July 20, 2023 · Helio Diamant

Germany, West Czechia, and the BMW 100-year event

I open my eyes and see myself at Ben-Gurion Airport. Trying to understand if it's true. Just yesterday I was marrying my son in Kfar Saba, and now I am here drinking an ice-coffee with Shmil in our way...

July 19, 2022 · Helio Diamant

Portugal, summer 2022

It's been already 4 years since our last long motorcycle tour, in Slovenia and Croatia, in 2018. Since then we had some small adventures to Cyprus and to the BMW Days in Garmisch, and I had my accident...

December 27, 2021 · Helio Diamant

Winter in the Peloponnese

​INTRODUCTION It was already 10 years since last time that my wife and me went into a vacation alone. Not that we tried very much, travelling with friends is always very good. We tried as well at this...