Thursday, 6 September 2007

Tel Aviv and the road to Eilat

Tel Aviv from my hotel room: beautiful beaches, sun and a big city. After waking up and enjoying a nutritious fattening breakfast, I spend the whole morning on the phone and my computer to fix things that needed fixing.

Just before 1200 o'clock check out, I made some pictures of the city and my seaview. Indeed, the weather is very good: 30 degrees!


Next, I went for some shopping in the nearby mall. The Haifa experience had taught me the importance of a good tourist guide. So I ended up with the Lonely Planet guide. Since one of my lunch appointments excused herself (sick :-( ), my other lunch partner and I decided to have lunch in Herzliya instead. However, I did not realize that after the lunch,would have to drive to Eilat, through the traffic of Tel Aviv (Herliya is North of Tel Aviv, Eilat South) in rush hour. Fortunatly, the Israelis are very creative and innovative people. When there is a traffic jam on the road, you just go off road into the dessert:


Unfortunately, no pictures of my trip to Eilat. At 1830 it started to get dark, at 1900 it was. Dark in the Negev dessert means black. No light, just upcoming traffic taking over at the moment I approach. I have had quite interesting moments during this trip that have, unfortunately, been lost.

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