Musry Meanderings

The adventure has begun.  We are receiving notifications from our friends from airports.  Packing is happening not only to us, but to others too.  We can sense it in the air.  Will it be warm, or will it be cold?  Shall we take another sweater, and what about our bathers!  Ooops nearly forgot!  Thank goodness there is still room in Joe’s suitcase.  That of course is the story of our travels anyway – there is ALWAYS room in Joe’s suitcase.  Mine on the other hand is full to overflowing, and I am sure I haven’t got enough to wear.   After all one must socialise mustn’t one!

This last week has been a little strange.  For one thing I didn’t play bridge once!  I am dealing with the withdrawal symptoms by reminding myself of that little group of intrepid Adamit bridge players from that far off distant time that we are trying to recreate next week.  Save a seat for me guys!  I don’t play that well, but I make up for it in sarcastic comments!

I did a bit of volunteering.  This was fun as it was just standing on a stall in the main shopping mall of Adelaide enticing old age pensioners to take note of our offerings.  I appeal to the elderly – for obvious reasons!   I had a great time chatting and laughing, leaving the paper work to another volunteer who was taking the whole thing a bit more seriously than I was.

I met up with the under vice secretary of the Israeli consulate for a quick breakfast yesterday too.  That was interesting as he seemed a nice man.  He was a little rushed as he had meetings with far more important people than we were!

So tomorrow we will start the long trek.  We leave here at midday (Sunday) and arrive in Tel Aviv at 2.30 pm on Monday.  Add the 10 hours time difference and do the math!  30+ long hours in the cattle class compartment of several airlines!  We will spend a blissful hour or two at the airport in Hong Kong, and another couple of hours in Zurich.  Since we have done all this several times before we are fairly well equipped and fortunately as I have got older I seem to be able to sleep on planes even without the help of my trusty valium tablets.  This time we have bought ourselves a little netbook so that we can keep in touch everywhere ----- we hope!!!!!!

Despite dire warnings we will be spending our first night in Israel in the Carlton in Nahariya.  We spent the night of my 40^th birthday there, and at the time thought we were very decadent, and I remember we raced around trying to fit all the treats into a small space of time – room service, movie, etc. Etc.  This time we intend to just crash and the main reason we have chosen the Carlton over other better places in Nahariya is that we know where it is in relation to the train station!

Oh well – back to the packing. Now where did I put those bathers?