We spent the morning using the Internet in our hostel room. It is cool and pleasant here in Jerusalem. We then walked around the shops below our room looking for food we cared to eat. There are a lot of fruit stands and foods of all types, but many of them are candy and snacks. You had to buy the whole box of fruit, and we didn't know if we would like it, so we settled for another pita bread type sandwich with fish. It was very good.
We did a trial run to the central bus station which we need to leave on Sunday for Eilat. We walked along the wall of the Old City to the Jaffa Gate and asked for local bus information at the information center there. We walked through some of the shops and then found bus 20 to take us to the bus station. This bus station is much like some of the European train stations. It was fun to walk around. We bought our bus tickets for Eilat and found a sticky bun type thing to eat. Then we took the bus back to the Jaffa Gate and walked around trying to find a better route to the bus stop because we'll have our bags on our backs on Sunday. By the time we got back to the hostel, we were ready for a quiet, relaxing evening -- AFTER eating another wonderful Magnus ice cream bar, walking around more of the shops and buying some apricots.
Street vendors were cooking kabobs and various types of pita sandwiches. We'll have one tomorrow afternoon if they are set up again then.
We listened to all the loud evening noises and watched a multitude of Jews dressed up in their finery walking back from some kind of activity at the wall. We wonder how the Arabs here feel about this "parade."
It was relatively quiet and we both slept very well.
1 comment:
Sounds like you didn't do much except eat today; thats my kind of day!
Jermark
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