Sunday, February 23, 2014

A Weekend In Eilat

I still get a kick out of the fact that we can get on a bus and drive down to Eilat for the weekend. The bus journey takes four hours but it's not too boring despite being largely desert landscape. We passed the Dead Sea



And Massada.



And once in Eilat we found a little bit of paradise waiting for us.


Best of all we found our cousins (my sister's family) by the pool.

Swimming with Aunty and Uncle

Dolphin sticker-mosaics with my cousin
The lobby had ice-cream and slushy drinks and we loved watching the boats in the marina.


Chilling is good. My moment was a relaxing coffee on the balcony overlooking the marina while DD went down to the pool with her cousins.

Can't beat chilling with a coffee and a view

Just chilling out on the beach

Three days in paradise with sun, sea, sand, pool and family (and quite a lot of good food not cooked by us). Just perfect.



8 comments:

  1. Nice, relaxing post, and great photos!

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  2. Looks perfect. It reminded me of my trip through the dessert on a very uncomfortable bus down to Eilat. We were a UK youth group trip (so many years ago) and found it so funny when the mirage of a coca-cola kiosk in this vast sea of sand turned out to be real :-)

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    1. I remember those days, when Eilat was one dusty road, a couple of hotels, a kiosk, and the beach. Now it's a small town with a shopping mall, an airport, and about 50 hotels.

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  3. It certainly does look like paradise, and a reminder of why I still hope to live beside the sea one day!

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    1. Not too close though - I've been seeing those horrific landslide stories from the English coastline.

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  4. Looks fantastic.... how lovely for you all. And dolphins! X

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    1. The dolphins were the icing on the cake, definitely.

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