Eldan

... the process that has uncovered so many of the ancient sites we have enjoyed visiting!   We are renting a car from Eldan today and taking this opportunity to see some of the countryside west of Jerusalem before meeting our group at Beit Guvrin at ...

... the car from the free parking lot of the Mount Zion Hotel (another benefit of the hotel), over to King David Street to return the Eldan car.  The same agent who checked us out yesterday greets us upon our return. The other agent told us that she had ...

... and taxis to get around and only now, as we are leaving Tel Aviv, start our car rental. We're also glad that we got Eldan's excess waiver so that we don't have to be concerned about any scratches or dents that our rental might receive. However, now that ...

... to the Old City for doing just that and asking 5 people along the way to send me in the right direction. Finally I saw the Eldan sign and crossed 4 lanes of traffic to just frickin' get into the parking lot. I didn't really care if I was stopping traffic ...

... I felt like a seasoned traveler. I'd been in Eilat before, crossed the border, knew how much a taxi cost and right where the Eldan rental car office was. I was psyched to have a car! I signed the papers and headed into the Negev Desert. I wasn't nervous ...

... playing the kiboom kiboom beat heard everywhere. Oh Joppa! Now that was an experience! We picked up our  9 seater van from Eldan Car Rentals and Bruce decided to be the first guinea pig driving on the right-hand side of the road. Praise be to ...

We pick up our car at Eldan and we're off (it wasn't quite that easy but why complain!). Our guide, Geoff Winston (whose grandfather was a Britsh Jew nee Weinberg) calls us up and tells us he will meet us in 3 hours in Caesarea. Meanwhile he ...

... for us, which was a big help, as well as a new map of Israel they purchased for us. We proceeded to the rental car, Eldan. After much paperwork, they bring our car around & we notice it's a 7 seater, not the 9 we requested. So my husband goes back ...

Within the old city walls of Jerusalem is the temple mount upon which the very prominent Dome of the Rock is situated. It has become one of the most recognisable symbols of Jerusalem with its gold plated (real gold!) dome always highly visible among the ...

Theodore Herzl died at age 44 in 1904, and was first buried in Vienna. As father of the Zionist movement it was appropriate that his final resting place be in Israel.  It was his desire to have his remains moved to the homeland for the Jewish ...

Jerusalem ...