boring day of travel
We had big plans for the day. We were going to finish the Cusco Free Walking Tour, we were going to check out a field where you could frolick and play with llamas, and probably something else really fun and outdoorsy- and then en route to get a coffee before we met the walking tour where we left off, it started to rain. And it kept raining. So forgive me for another very boring post.
Seriously. That’s what we did. The day in a minute doesn’t get any more entertaining than watching a cat sit on our bags. Because when we weren’t checking the laundry, we were watching Allan, waiting for him to do something weird. (He is a bit of an eccentric cat.)
It was gorgeous, beautiful weather our first two days in London. Until this morning, when we decided to do laundry and let it air dry before we headed south to Portsmouth. Of course, it rained. We (Allan included) stared at each other, and the laundry, until it was dry enough for us to pack it up and go.
Haifa is boring. There. I said it. I have no idea why it’s number three on Trip Advisor’s list of things to do in Israel, because really, there is only one thing to do: The Baha’i Garden. The guided tour starts at noon. If you miss that (like we did), and it happens to be Shabat (like it was the day we planned to go through the garden), you will find yourself out of luck. Most of the city is shut down, buses are not running, and taxi drivers charge extra fare.
We were told there was a sculpture garden on top of the hill in Haifa (where the entrance to the top of the garden is) so we wandered through it. The sculpture garden, we discovered, is a direct reflection of the city itself: boring. Only one artist completed the 20 or so sculptures and they simply lacked imagination – as you may see in the video above.
The best part of the day was stumbling into a falafel joint with a buffet of unlimited sauces and side dishes. We stuffed ourselves silly and then camped out back in our hostel lobby with our computers to blog and plan our re-route through Africa!
