There are stories about crossing the border into Israel. Terrible stories. Stories involving stressful sessions of rigorous questioning. Questioning that lasts for hours. We prepared ourselves for a strenuous day and hoped that our answers to questions would be satisfactory enough to get us into Israel. The Inquisition had arrived. Turns out, if...

Nothing much to report for Eilat. As it's the middle of winter and the weather isn't all that great, things were very empty with a lot of places closed until spring. I stayed the night since it's easier to do the border crossing into Egypt in the morning than it would have been in the afternoon.

My alarm has now been changed to Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds' which opens with the line, "Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing is gonna be alright!" This minor adjustment feels like the best thing I've ever done when the alarm sounds a short 45 minutes after my head hit the pillow. For some reason I take this advice to heart ...

Our new friends, the Samson family, were also in Eilat, staying at Kibbutz Eilot just outside of the town. They came into Eilat and we had a great day together. We started off on the beach and swimming in the Red Sea, a very calm sea and quite warm for this time of the year and also a lot more buoyant than expected. Not quite the Dead Sea sort o...

Den nemmeste vej mellem Jordan og Egypten er at bevaege sig de seks kilometer fra den jordansk-israelse til den israelsk-egyptiske graense i Eilat - Israels sydligste by i bunden af Aqaba-bugten - but noo - ikke hvis man har syriske stempler i sit pas. Naar man har det, skal man gennem en omfattende sikkerhedsprocedure, der indbefatter en raekke...

Short story here, we took an overnight bus to Eilat and got there at 4:30 am and waited for the bus to the Egyptian border at 9 (the first one goes at 8, but I had to mail a package from the post office and it only opened at 8) NB Luckily, for us we're only going to countries that recognize Israel as a country, however should you want to visit O...