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Published: July 10th 2006
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Okay,
This maybe a fairly brief entry. Suffice to say we are in Tel Aviv - we landed at Ben Gurion airport on the morning of my birthday!. For those who don't know, many people have to go throught a search and interrogation to get into the country, specifically to verify that they are not International Solidarity Movement activists, or the like. We were therefore tourists, here for a nice holiday in the sunny holy land.
We did get searched, and at 3AM we were perhaps not in most tolerant of moods. The stroppy tourist vibe probably worked in our favour, however, and we were in fact not subjected to an interrogation. I think this was down to Jemima's presence- on the two occasions I have been before I have been talked to for hours. She clearly lends an air of respectability I lack.
-Elliot
I'm unconvinced by that, but anyway, we made it, so I'm not going to question how we got through so easily (if you can call a two hour search easy!)
Anyway, it falls to me to make everyone jealous about what we've been doing so far, because it's mostly been lazing on the beach. I have to say I'm impressed with what we've seen of Tel Aviv - it's pretty much like any other Mediterranean resort, with wonderful beaches, nice places to eat and lots of bars with long lasting happy hours. Elliot's birthday giving us a valid reason to enjoy ourselves, we've done just that, and it's been nice to have the chance to acclimatise in relative luxury.
It's also nice to get a sense of "normal" Israel, and its "normal" citizens, waitresses, bar owners and the like - something I want to try very hard to remember later on in this trip.
Right, I'm hungry, so I think we'll leave it here, but sure we'll be back online pretty soon.
-Jemima
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Ramsey
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Glad to know that you are utilising travelblog as well
look forward to the next update.