Paddling 200m below the sea!

Hrm...  Hope the hire car's okay.  That crunching noise as I tried to pull onto the kerb did not sound good.  Oh well.  Seems fine.

It's been an enjoyable day.  Am getting to grips with the driving now.  So we drove to the sea of Galilee.  Some 200m below sea level.  It being a tourist destination by a body of water, it has a feel much like any other waterside resort.  Lots of hotels and shops selling buckets and spades and restaurants.  Had a very nice grilled Sea Bass.  Ambled around town.  It's off season, being the middle of winter, so there weren't a lot of people about.  Would have been nice to swim but there's no lifeguard so there was no swimming.  It's pleasant enough in the winter.  Bet it's great in he summer.

So we chilled out in Tiberias a bit, then drove along to Haifa to meet some friends of Tink and Jock.  Two geeky guys with a bookshelf full of RPG gamebooks and a lots of geekery.  After a somewhat roundabout route back the their place, we went out again.  Ate tasty Japanese foods.  Wandered along and saw Haifa from the top of a cliff edge.  Also saw the Baha'i gardens (but only over the wall.  Still a nice view).