Up early for the trip to King David's hotel in the city centre where we are to be picked up for our tour to Massada. Taxi picks us up at 7am (as we know what the traffic can be like - we have gone early to make sure we get there in time for 9am!) Taxi metered and we are off- King David hotel is the most famous hotel in Israel - boasting guests like Churchill, Sadat, Haile Selassie, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kissinger, Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Kirk Douglas, Paul Newman and now Shelly and Andi. We are shown in by a lovely elderly doorman into a huge lobby of marble floors. Due to being there well early we decide to have breakfast - everything you can imagine & constant service by the attentive waiting staff. After
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