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Israel – Day 22

22/03/2019

Quiet night in Tel Aviv & after the last huge breakfast at the hotel we explored the Camel Market – not a camel in sight but plenty of food of every type you can imagine and things you didn’t know you needed or for that matter even knew existed. We then bit the bullet and took a GETT (uber equivalent) to Jerusalem as the options with the bus and train were limited being Shabbat (the Sabbath). Cost about $150 NZD but needs must & at least we would get within a few hundred metres of our accomodation and not have to lug the bags too far. However the cab driver was a bit of a shark (as are most of them we’ve since found out) and even after getting the concierge to tell him exactly where we needed to go, and enter it correctly into the GETT app, he dumped us off way too early as he didn’t want to drive through the old city narrow one way streets. Our lovely Air BnB host however came to meet us and helped drag the bags through the old city to the apartment – she took his name and number and was going to give him an earful as apparently they do it all the time! I never give drivers a bad rating on uber, but I figured I would never be on GETT again so I rated him poorly – wish there had been an option to comment on his 130kms per hour driving and the constant straddling of the lanes so he could pick which one was going faster at any given moment. I prayed all the way into Jerusalem !!

The apartment was great but the neighbours upstairs were soooo noisey – sounded like they were moving furniture all night, but it was Shabbat and the feast of Purim still underway so we just put up with it. The young boys earlier in the day were all getting absolutely hammered for Purim, walking the streets drinking straight out of wine bottles…they would have had to sober up quickly in time for Shabbat.  We were going to go to a Jewish house for a Shabbat meal that I had pre booked, but in the end we cancelled it as it was in the new city and we had no idea how to get there and back in the dark – and we were already put off the taxi idea!!

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