Our trip to the Negev 2020
Visit to Boker Valley farm not much in a year without travel The Corona lockdown has meant that we have been home this time for 4 whole weeks and Astrid booked to spend 2 nights during the week at Boker Valley Farm on Tues. Wed. 27th 28th October 2020. We arrived there at 3pm taking the directions that they gave us but it would have been easier continuing on road 6 to get there as you have some very dangerous drivers in the south and it is not pleasant being overtaken on a barrier line. Still on the main Nitsana road you see a small sun shining in the distance and when we got close we realized that this is the Ashalin solar power station. On the way home we drove past this and I found out that it is a white elephant and an ecological danger. Apparently when it was built in 2014 it got a 20 year contract to provide power to the Electricity Corporation cheaper than the coal power stations but by the time it came online in 2018, cheaper new gas was available from Israels gas fields in