Friday 17th May. After lunch with Etty and Guy I meet Leon Peters and friend Miles for road trip to the north of Israel. It’s good to finally get out of Tel Aviv again and see some other parts of the country. Miles drives while Leon smirks.

Israel have adopted a new security device in the form of a giant duck perched atop of the building in the main square in Tel Aviv. Hidden inside are high powered survailence cameras able to recognise faces in a crowd. The idea is that people will be curious enough to look up at the fluffy ducky that the cameras will have enough time to photograph potential terrorists, expecting mothers who smoke, fat businessmen who talk [...]

Hi all, been a few days without a post but I wasn’t feeling well, a little cold and cough, and staying in bed and watched tv so didn’t really have much to blog about. I’m ok now, still a little cough but nothing to get worried about Mum, aunty, anyone else. This post is from Friday 17th May. I have a post to write from the day before but need to get photos off my [...]

Great news. I have been offered some work for North One TV, the same company I worked with during the Australian Open Tennis in Melbourne back in January. Although this time I’ll be working with them in Greece and Turkey for the World Rally Championship. So I get a free flight from Tel Aviv to Athens where I’ll work for a few days then stay a week longer to see Greece, then it’s off to [...]

Time for some comparisons between the travels of Elahn and Alicia. For a start Melbuorne is freezing cold with the chance of 7 layers of jumpers. Meanwhile, I’m slowly taking more and more clothing off while sitting on the beach in Tel Aviv. Alicia travels far and wide and meets the locals. Brrrr, it still is freezing here! While Alicia warms herself agains the hot skin of a horsey, I get a peck on the [...]