At our last trip to Israel, we picked up a massive coffee table book at Ben Gurion airport about archaeological sites in Israel. Everyone needs a hobby, and ours happens to be an interest in Roman history/the Roman Empire. We rented a car in Tel Aviv and drove to a couple of archaeological sites about 2 hours…

We arrived in gorgeous Tel Aviv on Wed June 7 to sunny, 30C weather which was a bit of a shock after the last couple of weeks of cold, wet conditions in Ottawa. We were too early to be allowed to check in at the hotel, so we left our bags and went to the beach…