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After the Jordan River the guide drove back to Tel Aviv to drop us all off. Those of us staying in Jerusalem had to do the bus switcheroo again and get on one with a Palestinian driver.
It was late by the time I got back to my hotel but rather than head straight to my room I ordered a drink from the hotel bar and took it outside to enjoy it on the smoking veranda with a few cigarettes (yes I smoke..I know..bad habit..lol).
Halfway into my drink a lady from the UK sat down at my table to share my ashtray and we struck up a conversation. My plans for the next day were originally set to go to the Dead Sea until I heard what she had to say. A traveling companion of hers spent the day at the Dead Sea swimming in it and ended up acquiring a very nasty infection that was so bad she had to take him to the hospital there in Jerusalem where they admitted him. I nixed the Dead Sea off of my itinerary right then and there....being unemployed with no health insurance to speak of I can't afford to get sick. The Jordan River was bad enough and a big enough risk...I wasn't taking this one.
So I figured well...I could do the Garden Tomb the next day and the old city again. I had way too many sheckels left out of what I had brought with me that I needed to get rid of so I thought I'd do some more shopping.
It was beginning to get very cold in the evenings and windy. After I finished my drink and a few cigs I went back to my room and called it a day.
It was late by the time I got back to my hotel but rather than head straight to my room I ordered a drink from the hotel bar and took it outside to enjoy it on the smoking veranda with a few cigarettes (yes I smoke..I know..bad habit..lol).
Halfway into my drink a lady from the UK sat down at my table to share my ashtray and we struck up a conversation. My plans for the next day were originally set to go to the Dead Sea until I heard what she had to say. A traveling companion of hers spent the day at the Dead Sea swimming in it and ended up acquiring a very nasty infection that was so bad she had to take him to the hospital there in Jerusalem where they admitted him. I nixed the Dead Sea off of my itinerary right then and there....being unemployed with no health insurance to speak of I can't afford to get sick. The Jordan River was bad enough and a big enough risk...I wasn't taking this one.
So I figured well...I could do the Garden Tomb the next day and the old city again. I had way too many sheckels left out of what I had brought with me that I needed to get rid of so I thought I'd do some more shopping.
It was beginning to get very cold in the evenings and windy. After I finished my drink and a few cigs I went back to my room and called it a day.