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Oct 2022 Cruise to Atlantic Spain and France

  28th Sept at the crack of dawn we took a taxi to Ben Gurion Airport and with 2 hand luggage suitcases were able carry  on to  the plane.  The El Al Dream Liner jet has a very good TV and movie program so it kept most people busy during the flight. The guy next to me had been in Israel in the Irish junior soccer team that lost to Israel the night before. Astrid could look him up by the tattoos on his arms Aaron Connelly has played for Brighton/Hove for 7 years. Through Booking.com Astrid arranged a taxi to Southampton as the coach was not running at a  suitable time. Just as we got onto the highway a truck hit the back side of our wheel which burst , the hippie looking driver stopped to show his papers. Our driver a Pole named Conrad  phoned his sister Viola to take up on the journey but she hardly spoke English. Southampton I walked through the old walled city of Southampton and visited the Tudor museum there, a building so old that it is all bucked and a fortune had to be spend to r