Hotel Gaza

... the last of their tents and poles and ropes, etc. Abed was obviously one of their leaders. And I asked him where I could find a hotel for the night. As if I should have assumed it, he informed me that of course I would spend the night at his home. He ...

This hotel was being prepared for the beginning of the Palestinian conference, the 6th in 60 years. It was OK for $50 per night, and was the first one we found all on our own, without the help of our friends in Petra.  The airconditioning was very ...

... then. So when I say our days are jam packed, I'm not exaggerating. We start between 8 and 9 a.m., congregating at Marna House, a hotel/conference hall. The setup is very press conference-like, with cameras in our faces 24-7. We've been meeting very ...

... was by a Russian who spoke fluent slightly accented Enlish. If I have it correctly, he was a Russian diplomat assigned to Gaza to monitor things there - whatever that meant. It was a short but very engaging ride. We talked mostly about Russian ...

... of the Sea and several folks walked over for a swim in the Sea.  All reported that it was hot, the water was quite hot and most walked back after a few minutes in the water.  Jacqui and I just jumped in the hotel pool and enjoyed that ...

... und bleibe 1 Stunde unter den Einfluss der Klimaanlage. Danach mache ich mir Gedanken ueber meine Uebernachtungsstelle. Das mir bekannte Hotel gibt es nicht mehr. Ich komme an dem Gemeindegesundheitsstelle vorbei. Man winkt mich hinein. Man bietet mir ein ...

... broadcast across the world on Christmas Eve. We walked around the grounds a bit and stopped for a coffee at the Casa Nova Palace hotel. We spent some time in a gift shop--picking up some olive wood ornaments in a 14 point star shape. On the way ...

... .) So we fly all the way from NY to see the place where Jesus was born and I leave the camera in the safe at the hotel! Bethlehem is in Palestine so our Jewish tour guide had to leave us with another guide to go into Bethlehem.There was a border crossing. ...

We left our very humble East Jerusalem hotel and headed around the corner to the Arab bus station to catch mini-bus number 18 to Ramallah, headquarters odor the West Bank. The bus ride was very absurd, with us taking more backroads, alleyways, and unpaved ...

... Arish is a small town about 45 mintues from Rafah, both of which are east of the Sinai and south of Gaza. We had to stop at a hotel in Al Arish to switch buses to help evade the Egyptian authorities. The hotel even doctored false reservation papers for ...

... dressed up in ethnic costumes and paraded the bride and groom around on thrones.  After a festive evening, we retired to our awesome hotel in downtown Haifa.    I landed in Israel on November 1st, 2009 and had planned to be on my way to ...

... ; great lady, great ideas, great attitude and so down to earth! Loaded with bags of stuff to make things I picked her up from her hotel and headed to the institute (I had checked out its location last night, most of my audience know how terrible I am with ...

... a copy as it’s a great read. http://www.marriedtoabedouin.com/ We’re now in Cairo for the night, enjoying a proper hotel with nice bed, swimming pool, restaurants and even hot water. Such a luxury ; ) Tonight we head for Nairobi for the next ...

... in Israel...but we were told that it was higher quality items. Perhaps.  But, I have olive wood that I purchased at hotel gift shops throughout Israel on previous trips and when I compare them to the pieces I purchased in each of the Bethlehem ...

... few days and got a taste of what things were like from the persepective of a Palestinian.  Our last to days were in a hotel, lest we wear out our welcome.  In Palestine, everything is run at the behest of Israel.  When the settlements ...

... and the price would be $150 USD round trip.  (I think that they raise the fare when they know you are calling from a hotel.)  I also considered going to Jerusalem, but to do so I would either have to take a Palestinian driver to the border and ...

... it was around 7pm.  From there I got another cab – the first driver wouldn’t enter Bethlehem – to my hotel.  Craig was headed to his hostel, which was supposed to be walking distance.  He negotiated his way into the cab ...