hello you lovelies - here is the clown news hot off the pedals

The first day of the trip from athina on the good cargo ship Notos was great - we did lots of practice and we made a party with the soundsystem because 2 of the crew who were nearly all egyptian, had a birthday - first party on board for 2 years

Quite mad - if we can get the pix off nicks camera we will put them on the website

The next day was not so nice too hot and shit food and dirty water
made us ill - especially matt


It was a very strange boat and general set up - random, a journey made almost impossible, thanks to convoluted security / bureauocracy; but a very good journey to make and it was a bassline of the project that we wouldn't fly. Very difficult but not impossible. Anyone wanting to know how to make this journey without flying or driving through Syria please email us. It costs 250euros per person and 500euros per vehicle, just one way, but thats just the economic cost innit?

The thought of being sent back wasnt nice at all at all.

Cyprus seemed uninspiring and that is where we wouldve been returned to and stranded

But praise the lordylordy we got into Haifa;
after 7hours questioning and searching
- everyting taken from the car into the terminal and through the xray machines and more
Yukky but hilarious at points - you can imagine - 12 trollies of unicycles and stilts and costume and 12v soundsystem and magic......but fuck it we are in yipee!

We chilled at harduf for a day and caught up with old friends then to tel aviv where we made some very good contacts with israelis wanting to come inside with us (performers activists photographers etc) which was a nice surprise

Next we went to ramallah to meet with our partners in PlayEducationChildren to organise the last details for bethlehem and hebron (which we will now do later in the tour in august, as we were so late arriving from greece and some of the folks we were going to work with were deported while we were en route.)

Matt did some trainings for the clown army in jerusalem yesterday and will do more tomorrow (hurray for random meetings with old friends from budapest)

Now today we are going to a circus fundraising party north of Tel Aviv to try and help / convince more israelis to come through the wall and be involved in summer camps and projects and then we go to bethlehem tomorrow to start a 2 week project we are making with 2 dutchgirls and a swedey.

This project will be everyday for 7 hours with 100 children (and however firm we are that figure will only go up for sure)
ending in a street procession and performance.
Full on but really good to get on with what we are here for and the vibes around the bethlehem project are really +++++

thanks everyone for all your support (even the knockers, the anti clowns, the zionist stooges and the negative energy vampires - you inspired us to keep doing this and never give up - so perversely thankyou too)


keep it real yous all
kisses and clenched noses

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