Sunday, 28 May 2017

I go up slightly later than normal this morning. I decided to walk down early, before breakfast, for my weekly blood test, though, because I figured it would be better than walking later, when the weather would be quite hot.

After I was finished at Maccabi, I decided, on a whim, to take a bus trip to Be'er Sheva and back. I found that there was a bus leaving Eilat at 8:00, that the round-trip fare was only 82 shekels, and that there was a bus leaving Be'er Sheva at 2:00 p.m. to return to Eilat. So, I did it. I had just enough time to buy an omelet sandwich at the bus station for breakfast on the trip before hopping on the bus.

On the way up (going the Arava route), we stopped for a 15-minute break at Khatzeva. I had time to pee, to buy a bottle of Sprite Zero, and to buy a pair of sturdy-looking, practical flip-flops for 20 shekels.

We arrived in Be'er Sheva around 11:30. I found that the central bus station there also houses quite a mall of stores of all kinds, so I first browsed around there and bought another nice pair of flip-flops, also for 20 shekels. Then I walked over to the big mall in Be'er Sheva, which is just a very short walk away (really, across the street). After also browsing the big mall, which I had been to a few times before but which has changed quite a bit since my last visit there, I decided to eat at the Greg Café on the main floor. I had a Druze salad, which was something new (and VERY delicious!) for me.

Then I returned to the bus station, bought some baklava and other sweets for (too much) dessert, bought a bottle of Coke Zero, and made a last stop at the restroom before boarding my return bus.

On the way back, we stopped at a different place, further south than the one we stopped at on the way up. I can't remember if it was Sapir or Tzukim.

I took some pictures through the somewhat dirty bus windows along the way. One of them, showing the main terminal building of the new airport under construction near Be'er Ora (about 20 minutes north of Eilat), is today's pic of the day:

When we returned to Eilat, I didn't quite have time to walk up to my place, so I walked, rather leisurely, over to Fay's house from the bus station for our weekly play-reading group.

I walked a total of 7.4 kilometers today.