Israel Stamp Reviews

Last month, having occasion to travel overseas on holiday and seeking to avoid the harsh winter temps of inland Europe, I spent ten nights in Italy. Originally my plan was to stay exclusively in Naples, but on the advice of numerous friends and colleagues I ended up dividing my time between Naples and Rome. I left Israel Saturday, January 10th with my trusted CabinZero backpack and a return flight scheduled for the morning of January 20th. It had been twelve years since the last time I traveled in Italy. In the summer of 2013 I had visited Milan, Turin and Genoa en-route to the French Alps. My phone in those days was a Nokia 5630 ExpressMusic, which sported a 2.2-inch color display and a numeric keypad with joystick. Although smartphones and Google Maps were already a part of the travel experience back then, two apps that figured prominently in this year's travel experience were not: Google Gemini and piXPost . Jerusalem | Vienna | Bratislava | Budapest 2025: Amir Afsai Launch...

To travel or not to travel? There was a time when that was a rhetorical question. If a vacation was on the horizon, it was only a matter of where . Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. There were small and intermittent windows of opportunity to leave the country, and some Israelis had slipped through them -- only to find themselves stranded overseas without a return flight or forced into a quarantine facility immediately upon return. Headlines repeated promises that this country was in talks to open its borders to Israeli tourists or that airline was about to resume regular flights, but they were a mirage: the appointed time would come and nothing concrete would materialize. In February and March, as the fruits of Israel's flash immunization program began ripening, things finally appeared to be changing. By mid-April, the pandemic effectively over, roughly half a dozen countries became genuinely realistic destinations for vaccinated Israelis. They could fly out sans the need for ...

2010 "Malta and Gozo" stamp | בול איי מלטה January is a tricky month of the year to travel. While there are astonishingly cheap flights out of Israel, the real bargains are to high-latitude European countries where the days are short and the weather is bone-chillingly cold -- which largely defeats the purpose of the vacation. My original plan for January 2020 was to shell out a little extra on airfare and spend eleven days in relatively warm Morocco, including a few days in Fes to run the international marathon there. However, various circumstances conspired against that idea. When a $100 round-trip ticket to Malta appeared on the radar, serendipitously overlapping a 10K race in the town of Ħ'Attard, the matter was settled: Malta would be the first travel destination of 2020. Ben Gurion Airport, 10 January 2020 The sudden change of plans, which coincided with a period of mounting pressure at work, meant there wasn't time to properly research the country I was...