Dec 22 - Old Jaffa
More "meh" weather this morning (cloudy and light rain) as we found our way down to Old Jaffa and signed up for a guided walking tour.
The smallest functional social group on "Tel Yafo" is the tour group cluster of 20-30 people, and about two thirds of them are Israeli Army soldiers on leave for the weekend. Given their age, they look like high-schoolers playing dress-up on a class field trip, except for the fact that maybe one in ten is carrying a high-powered, assault rifle. (Perhaps high-schoolers from Texas playing dress-up?)
Tomorrow we should be picked up by our tour operator who will take us on to Jerusalem and beyond, so no more figuring out how to do things on our own.
(FWIW it's the seventh night of Hanukkah, but you really couldn't tell from anything we've seen here. I guess the War on Hanukkah is going much better than the War on Christmas.)
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| (Link to the tour operator's Facebook page: The tour is free, but they ask that you link to their page to drive up more business. How do they make money under this model? Volume.) |
The smallest functional social group on "Tel Yafo" is the tour group cluster of 20-30 people, and about two thirds of them are Israeli Army soldiers on leave for the weekend. Given their age, they look like high-schoolers playing dress-up on a class field trip, except for the fact that maybe one in ten is carrying a high-powered, assault rifle. (Perhaps high-schoolers from Texas playing dress-up?)
Tomorrow we should be picked up by our tour operator who will take us on to Jerusalem and beyond, so no more figuring out how to do things on our own.
(FWIW it's the seventh night of Hanukkah, but you really couldn't tell from anything we've seen here. I guess the War on Hanukkah is going much better than the War on Christmas.)
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