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Random Observations From Someone Who Just Travelled from Israel to Australia

Aussie Dave

1. Flying for over 20 hours is never easy.
2. Watching the film The Bucket List is not a good move for someone going to visit their terminally ill father.
3. Singapore Airlines usually rocks; especially so when half the plane is empty, you get the entire front bulkhead row to yourself, and one of the stewardesses takes a liking to you and goes out of her way to make sure everything is to your liking.
4. Sometimes when you imagine the guards at the Singapore Airlines counter are speaking Hebrew, they really are speaking Hebrew (I guess other airlines are employing Israelis because of their security know-how?)
5. Sometimes when you start speaking to one of the store owners in Zurich airport and you tell her you are from Israel, she will then proceed to explain how her good friend is Israeli and then point to her diamond earrings and explain how she bought them from Jews in one of the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.
6. Sometimes when you are on a fully booked flight from Singapore to Perth, and you imagine the people sitting right next to you are speaking Hebrew (including a woman with a really ocka Australian accent), they really are speaking Hebrew.
7. When you just start speaking in Hebrew to aforementioned people sitting next to you, the look on their faces is priceless.
8. Sometimes when you are sitting next to an Israeli who has been living in Broome for a good number of years, she will know a very good friend of yours.

An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.