Another great breakfast this morning. We packed up and checked out -- we're sorry to leave this friendly hotel. Mike was quickly able to hail a taxi on Allenby St., who took us to the Dan Panorama Hotel. Ralph at the hotel was puzzled -- neither our names nor our tour group was anywhere in their system. I gave him the page with the tour phone numbers and he made a call. For unknown reasons, the tour company changed the hotel to the Carlton, which is further north and right on the beach. A short taxi ride later, we were checking in (with our free welcome drink -- sweet mint iced tea). The hotel has a small private beach. We kept walking to the public beach further down where there was an outdoor snack bar. This time Mike got the green drink, a mint lemonade slushy while Nancy had the passion fruit slushy. Mike had a grilled chicken sandwich while Nancy had the very Israeli chicken liver pita (including pickles and tahini). We were very excited to find out there was a place to rent kayaks but when Mike checked, they told him it was too windy for rentals.
Nancy took a taxi out to the airport to meet the group (allowing Mike some more quiet time at the hotel). After a while, the group showed up -- yay! Big beautiful bus was waiting for us (and it has WiFi!) We drove through Jaffa to Old Town Jaffa. Very quickly went past some shops up to the top of the Jaffa Tel (that's a hill) for a view of the Mediterranean and Tel Aviv. We said a special blessing (the Shekhiyanu) of thank you for having come together in Israel. Then the group got to check in to the hotel. Interesting dinner, served family style, with salads, appetizers, various main courses (chicken, lamb, fish, and vegetarian), and a variety of desserts.
Tomorrow we need to be up early as we go off to see and do a variety of things.
Day four photos
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