Eilat
Eilat, Tel-Aviv – Day 13
This morning the weather looked absolutely gorgeous and my uncle asked if I wanted to go tanning. Having lost my voice completely by morning, I declined (the Silent post was written on Eilat – Day 12). So we set out back to Tel-Aviv right after breakfast, ahead of schedule. Too bad this gorgeous weather wasn’t there for us yesterday. But oh well. I guess I’ll have to come back. On the way back, we passed the same raw natural beauty, road signs I won’t see at home, and the same Kosher McDonald’s. Somehow I managed to nap most of the way back. This was also the first day of Passover.We don’t celebrate with all the customs and...
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Breakfast was good, except there was no bread. Anywhere. It’s Pesach, so I had to put butter and jam on matza. Hmm…… It was edible. Other things were good too, but I can’t remember now. The plan today was to go swimming and tanning. But the weather was less than cooperative. It drizzled again. So we went to the aquarium. It was really nice and I even saw some folks from the tour (there was an Eilat extension and some people bought it). The aquarium had all sorts of cute fish and there were quite a few visitors, but we came early in the morning so we got to see quite a bit before much of the crowd.By the time we were finished here, it...
Read MoreEilat – Day 11
Today (Monday) we’re on our way to Eilat. The drive is about 4 hours, but closer to 5 or 6 if you make stops. I didn’t think there’s anywhere you can drive in this postage stamp country for 4 hours, but I was wrong. Here too, there’s lots of road construction. On the way, we passed Bedouin “settlements”. I can’t really call them houses because they looked like corrugated metal that’s been attached with wire. I doubt the floor is anything more than the dirt on which this “structure” stands. We also saw a bit of a dust storm, shepherds tending their flock of sheep and goats, camels, and a few cows. In one of our...
