“To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history….” ~The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Elizabeth Kostova’s novel “The Historian” was racing through my mind as we touched down on the tarmac in Istanbul. For those of you who haven’t read it, you’re missing out. A good portion of it follows the…
So yes, I can be pretty cheap when I need to be. Take for example my last night in Israel. As I mentioned before, I had a flight out of Tel Aviv, and didn’t really want to spend money on a bad hostel for one night. Especially when I have…
I ended up spending about a week in Jerusalem, primarily because my final pre-booked flight was scheduled for the 10th of June out of Tel Aviv. And, even though Tel Aviv is supposed to be higher-tech and more modern than its land-locked counterpart, I couldn’t find a cheap hostel there,…