Astrid and Ronnies travels

 The Liverpool  and Leicester  Days 1981 to 2000 28/5/18 The first time Astrid and I went to England was in summer 1981 when she was pregnant with Tal who was born in March 1982.  We arrived at Luton airport and waited out in the cold for he passing National Bus night bus. This took us to Sheffield which was the hub and we waited there inside a garage till all the bus arrived and they swopped passengers and we arrived in Liverpool via Wales and Brenda was waiting to collect us. At this time the famous Cavern of Beatle fame was being demolished and replaced by a new building called Beatle Walks? After a few days we took a National bus and changed busses in Manchester and went to Scotland, saw Edinburgh and then went on bus to Perth, Sterling, Aberdeen and finally Inverness. In those days we managed to get student cards to travel a reduced rates and you simple arrived at the station or bus station and there was a desk where you told the person in charge you wanted a BB...

  Friday 25th Oct 2024 flew El Al to Leonardo de Vinci Airport Rome, from where we had an organized taxi to the old port of  Rome called Citavechia. (old city) Our hotel was a family run place on ground floor above us were apartments. One of the things you are aware of in most smaller towns in Italy especially the South that their population is shrinking and their are empty protected buildings. Some have a roof around them protecting the pavement from falling masonry. This old walled city and some of the walls have later been made into parts of new buildings, including a city gate tower and a turret that is part of a  4 story block of flats. Walking along the dockland there are fishing  boats ,   yachts as well as the cruise ship docks. A memorial to those who died in the Great War looks like a statue to ancient dying  Roman legionnaires.   A statue of  Giacomo Matteotti     1885 to 1924  a socialist  politician who w...

  We flew El Al directly from Israel to Narita Airport near Tokyo. This was an 13 hour flight and it flew eastwards into the Mediterranean over Turkey then crossed Azerbaijan the Caspian Sea north of Iran over China the Gobi Dessert, Mongolia over Beijing southwards over South Korea and northwards to Tokyo.   The food on the plane was still Kosher le Pessach.  On arriving the airport you get photographed while you put your index fingers on a pad when you show your passport. We took a taxi to Yokohama. Astrid was feeling jet lagged and went to sleep while I took walks in Yokohama.  In Japan Streets do not have names. I walked into the Yokohama City Opening Memorial Hall that commemorates the opening of the city built in 1909. In 1923 the Great Kanto earthquake struck, the city and the dome had to be reconstructed. You have stained glass windows of Commander Perry's ships arrival in 1853 as well as painting of early Yokohama. I walked to Chinatown which is a great...