So I got the bus to Ramallah on Friday morning with a German girl from the hostel. It was only an hour or 2. We found the hostel and dumped out bags before heading for the Yasser Arafat museum. We got a bit lost and ended up getting a lift with a couple of local guys. The museum was rather harrowing and gave such a good insight into the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, which sadly was largely thanks to us British who had the mandate to control Israel aft...

Ola amigos!! Hope you haven't all been blown away by this storm I've heard about!? I must admit it's rather chilly in Jerusalem, but no wind!! So after my last blog I got chatting to an interesting English/Austrian guy in the hostel and my early night didn't happen! The hostel was great- a free dinner, free shesha, free breakfast and helpful staff. Wednesday I walked with the guy from last night to the train station and managed to sort an Israeli SIM card! But t...

Welcome to my blog folks!! Just thought I'd check in and let you all know I made it to Tel Aviv safely and so did the tent that I had strapped to my rucksack in the hold! Although I'm rather ashamed by my geography knowledge after I was telling everyone I was landing in Hungary to change planes, but we landed this morning in Bucharest and I was welcomed to Romania! To be fair I was the only English person on the plane which meant I was one of the last on and off,...