Advantages: not on the tourist route Disadvantages: pretty façade, partly ugly backyard
on the plane.
We aren?t pious and didn?t intend to go on a pilgrimage and tick off all the holy sites Israel has to offer, we decided to stay in Tel Aviv (where the international airport is) for two days to shake off winterly Germany and then to go on to Jerusalem for six days. Tel Aviv gave us what we had been looking for and more than was necessary to make us happy: we arrived in the middle of a hot spell, when we landed at midnight it was 22° C, ten degrees more than at home at noon!
Tel Aviv is the most modern metropolis of the whole Middle East with ~ 377 000 inhabitants in the city proper (greater Tel Aviv is the city with the largest Jewish population in the world), it?s the financial and cultural centre of Israel. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, for a period of eight months during the Arab blockade of Jerusalem, it also served as ...
Advantages: Location, Locatin, Location! Disadvantages: None really - see text
I had to attend a conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. The conference was in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, so it made sense to stay there!
In Israel the currency is the New Israeli Shekel, which in this review will be called NIS. When I changed my money at Heathrow, the exchange rate was 7.79 NIS to the £. Some of the cost was in US $ so the exchange rate that was on my credit card statement was $1.81 to the £
*** Before I got there ***
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I didn't know how to get from Tel Aviv airport, to the hotel, so while still in the UK I sent the hotel an email asking if there was a courtesy bus. They promptly responded, telling that there wasn't, but the ways to get to the hotel were either by train, bus (number 222 ...
Advantages: Quality productions. International star-name casts Disadvantages: Short runs (3-5 weeks each)
You're pretty much guaranteed to see a famous TV or film star when you go to a play at the Geffen Playhouse. When I visit Los Angeles, this is the first theatre I check: details will be listed in the free paper LA Weekly, as well as in the Calendar Section of the Sunday edition of the LA Times.
Peter Falk, Annette Bening, Samantha Mathis, Jason Alexander, and Frank Langella have appeared at the Geffen. I've been to three excellent plays in recent years and seen Elizabeth Perkins, Martin Short, Brendan Fraser, Megan Follows, Robert Foxworth, Dana Delany, Kevin Kilner and Daniel Stern.
Built in the 1920s, it's a somewhat box-shaped building, subsequently converted into a theatre. There is no balcony as such. The few seats "upstairs" are way at the back, and too far from the stage for comfortable viewing. Seat prices in late ...
