As I write this post sitting in a hotel in Jerusalem, I’ve finally worked out what to make of Tel Aviv!

Before we arrived I had done lots of reading about Israel. In my usual style, I’d googled travel sites and relied heavily on Douglas Duckett’s incredibly informative guidebook that I found via the Amateur Traveller podcast (episode 167).

We’d made some basic plans but I wasn’t sure. We booked a couple of tours ahead of time and put ourselves at the mercy of the hotel Concierge.

His first suggestion was that as its Shabbat, we should,do what most residents of Tel Aviv do and go to the beach. Continue reading →