Israel
// October 26th, 1996 // Comments Off // Israel, Passage To Africa
After a wonderful day and 2 nights sailing on the Marco Polo, and falling completely in love with the ship and the people who run her, we reach Ashdod, Israel. A fairly non-descript container port for the most part. I did find it fairly interesting thought that Israeli Security checked everyone and their passport personally and instead of stamping our passport, stamped a piece of paper we had to keep with our passport until they took it back from us at the end of the day. The reason: if you have an Israeli stamp on your passport there’s a whole list of countries you can’t enter – including Egypt and Jordan. I was wondering how they were going to get around that! (more…)
