Tel Aviv is about four hours from Amman including the hour it takes to cross the border. Being able to easily (and an hour is considered "easy") cross is probably the top (only?) benefit we get for being diplomats. Once in Israel, we get a lot of funny looks for having a car with Jordanian plates because for most people it is not easy to cross the border and you typically CANNOT bring your car across.Whereas Jerusalem is a religious city full of important religious sites - the dome of the rock, the church of the holy sepulchre, western wall, etc. Tel Aviv is a regular city that happens to be located on the Mediterranean. We walked on the beach; watched surfers from a bar on the
beach where we could drink beer that wasn't Amstel (Jordan's one brewery); and went to an art museum that had an impressive collection of impressionist works and some terrific Marc Chagall paintings.
beach where we could drink beer that wasn't Amstel (Jordan's one brewery); and went to an art museum that had an impressive collection of impressionist works and some terrific Marc Chagall paintings. Happy Thanksgiving to You!
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Sounds like fun! We had snow for Thanksgiving in Upstate NY.
I am glad that you had a good one! So did we!
Mmm...drinking beer while watching surfers at the beach. Somehow, that makes me jealous. :-)
With no Thanksgiving as a backstop, Bogotá gets a bad case of Christmas fever in mid-November. Sebastian spent TG afternoon playing in the park under a 100-foot artificial tree. A Mediterranean beach sounds like more fun!
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