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You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced...
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Feb 25, 2023 10:00 PM Tel Aviv beach walk
They charge here 5,5 NIS for the ride on city buses, no discounts! Bit it is much nicer to take a long walk along the beaches and shady boulevards. I started in the full sun at 9.30 am going from Jaffa beach all over the way to the marina and onward to TLV port, passing big, elegant hotels. Especially the stretch after Hilton is nice - there is a path on the cliff giving you wede panorama of the beaches: the gay beach and orthodox beach, where ladies sunbath separated from the men. On the way back I was walking shaddy Dizengoff Boulevard full of shops, street cafes and cars. Turning under yhe skyscrapers in the crnter to George V soon I found myself at the entrance to Carmel Market - the main bazaar of Tel Aviv. In fact it is one long street full of stalls - colorful and interesting. Finally I was Able to change money: they are giving 3,62 NIS for one dollar...
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Feb 24, 2023 10:00 PM A walk to Old Jaffa
Tel Aviv has very short history. 100 years ago - they said - on the site of today's TLV there were only coastal dunes. But close to this place on the coast there was Jaffa port. I was walking today to old Jaffa to refresh memories. Along the coast they built nice promenade headind to the easy bisible on the horizon the tower of St Petrus church and monastery. The little fishing and yacht port is picturesque and from the port you can take a stone steps up to the hill to see the historic buildings and to enjoy the panoramic view of the city beaches with skyscrapers in the background. There is a flea market close to the clock tower but today - during Sabbath - it was closed. I ealked back to my Pod Hotel enjoying palm trees and flowers... Nice day but "never more on Saturday to Israel".
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Feb 23, 2023 10:00 PM Avoid Saturday going to Israel!
The 3,5 hour flight Cracow to Tel Aviv was OK. The plane docked at the bridge. We went out to the building and experienced big disappointment. No info, bad organized service. In the corridor to the immigration control there are units to scan your biometric passport, analyzing your data and issuing credit card - like landing permit valid 3 months. Nobody explain this, no help. But I got mine anyway! 100 m onward are normal imm. boths. And 200m-long line of waiting people. I was thinking that this is line for those who do not have biometric pass... No, no, no - go to the line anyway. Because you will be investigated there and you will receive little brown paper - this will be you ticket to the electronic gate to the freedom. MY pass had too many stamps - they asked me a lot of questions, but finally I got brown paper... Then customs were not interested to open my backpack.
5.30 pm - I wanted to go down to the railway station to go to the city. Bad surprise! Sabbath started already: no trains, no public buses, no choice, no help! You are on the mercy of bad taxi drivers. They ask as much as 250 shekel to Tel Aviv Center. Sheet! Is this civilized country? There are other people than Jews also here! Fortunately I met two ladies from California suffering from the same situation. We shared the taxi paying 20 USD each. I found my WOM Beach hotel. It is not capsule hotel. It is something new - pod hotel with micro- rooms with upper or lower beds. Let's have a rest! Remember: they start Sabbath already around 4 pm on Friday and close everything!
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Feb 22, 2023 10:00 PM With Tomek in Cracow
My flight to Israel is peparting from Krakow - historic city in the south of Poland. This was a good opportunity to meet my old friend and outstanding traveller Tomek and his wife Ola. We spend the evening exchanging travel stories, talking about travel plans and enjoying each other... Thank you Tomek for your warm hospitality? Ryanair wanted me to be in the airport 3 hours before the flight departure time, but this was nonsense, because they announced the number of the gate only 2 hours ahead. No special control for Israel-heading passengers! I was waiting in front of gate 13 hoping that if will not be fatal flight.
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Feb 21, 2023 10:00 PM I travel to the warmer countries...
February 2023 in Gda?sk is gray and sad, so it's no wonder that I packed my backpack and set off on another tour. Originally, it was supposed to start with a boat trip departing from Istanbul. But the shipping company canceled the cruise and I had to improvise something in this place :) I decided to fly a low-cost airline to Israel, where I was last in 1990 - 32 years ago dad. It will be nice to reminisce and visit old places! I also want to see something I haven't seen before - Masada. Then, via Cyprus, I will fly to Georgia, but only to cross the border to Turkey and cross the unknown Black Sea coast of this country. After returning from this Turkish side trip to Georgia, a cheap airline will take me to the Arab Emirates, where I will board an inexpensive ship that will take me to Europe via the ports of Oman and the Suez Canal. If on my route I will have free access to the internet saved carefully "hot" news from the route you will find, as always, in my travel log
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Jan 15, 2023 10:00 PM Sweet home & Wojtkówka
No any snow in Poland! Winters bacame very strange - you have to fly to Norway to feel the real frost :)
I have a lot to do at home after few week's absence. A lot of letters to be responsed and at least short travel report. I have to prepare also my next voyage (second part of February)
I visited my Wojtkówka - everything is OK there - cats are keeping mouses away... Let's work!
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Jan 14, 2023 10:00 PM Flying to Europe
This is important info for those of you who will be forced (like me) to spend a night in Doha Airport waiting for the connection. Lounges ask for 60 dollars for entry. But opposite the gate A3 there are "quiet rooms" offering for free a kind of couches (around 50 of them in the room) to rest. Ladies are separated!
My Finnair flight to Stockholm started at 8.30, I got the boarding pass at the gate...After few weeks withouts any alcohol I had a chance to try their excellent beer :)
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Jan 13, 2023 10:00 PM Back to the Red Sea
Another 400 kms to drive... We started at 9.30 am from Qunfudhah - Saudi resort town with the beach, few expensive and busy hotels and unfriendly people. It took us more than 5 hours drive to get to Jeddah with light rain on the way
sand dunes on both sides of the road and herds of camels. It was not easy to find the way to the hotel in the noisy and crowded Jeddah. My friend Piotr delivered me in the evening to the airport. Just before departure we stopped at the fuel station o the corniche. What a view! 200m plus Fountain of kong Faud (?) works again! I was so disappointed on my arriv as l to Jeddah that it doesn't work! For goodbye it was working again! The Qatar flight to Doha (2 hours 10 min)was on time. Poor meal, no beer or wine. Why they call it yhe best airline?
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Jan 12, 2023 10:00 PM Saudia: from 3000 m to the sea level
Saudia: from 3000m to the sea level...Sunny morning on Abha. We spent the night on the level around 2700 m above sea! After the breakfast we pack the luggages into the car and moved to the parking near the Grand Mosque for the daylight pictures. Abha has 1 million inhabitants and is very elegant city with a lot of green. Then we started yo climb one of the holls surrounding the city - stopover at the viewpoint is obligatory! The main target of today was the historic villago built in the yemeni style: Rijal al-Ma. It lies some 50 kms from Abha in the deep valley. To get there you must drive down i the tight curves from 3000 m escarpment to some 800 m... I ts very emotional ride down. At the top there viewpoints with the herds of baboons (we saw these monkeys many times yesterday begging for food on the roadside). Great mountains views! Down in the valley we reached Rijal soon. Built from the stone on the high slope it looks like a fortress. They charge 20 SAR entry fee. There is little and poor museum, but many houses are empty and require restoration. It is still very interesting place worth to recommend. At 12.30 pm we started a long way to the Red Sea. Sand dunes on the way. Nice views of the sea coast in Ka and El Birk. After some 410 kms driven from Abha we found a inexpensive room in the little coastal town. It is jot and humid here. Great day!A
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Jan 11, 2023 10:00 PM In the sun and in the mist - Saudia
We spent the night in El Baha on the level 2100 m above sea. At 8 am we were ready to drive down to the famous village of the stone houses Zee al-Ayn which is on the level 800 m... It is around 30 kms of picturesque, zig-zag road but... Alredy on the outskirts of Baha we experienced thick fogg. Oh my God! Terrible conditions, low speed... Only after 10 kms it became more clear and we saw all this switchbacks, viaducts and panoramas. The Zee village, nicely restored was empty. Entrance is free and we climbed all this alleys, terraces and stairs to the top. Great views reminding Machu Pitchu! In the info center there nice historic exhibition. At 11 am we started to climb the road again. Mist again -- then 350 kms drive in the clouds, rain on the ridge road to Abha. In the settlements many stone towers. We reached Abha at sunset. It was still a time for evening walk around this nice city!
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