Israel
Is a very beautiful place. (well, the parts I saw. Jerusalem basically)

It's also quite surreal as it appears that every other person is carrying a gun. We were getting the bus to Eilat (I think) to cross the border back into Egypt (which is a nightmare if you're not in a tour party, but that's a story for another week).

We were at the bus station at the same time as a large proportion of the kids doing national service, it must have been the start of the weekend or a leave period, as there was hundreds of them. And when I say kids I mean kids many of them still proudly sporting their first top lip 'bumfluff' moustache.

And they all carried guns. And I don't just mean holstered handguns like the coppers here in Australia, I mean BIG, fuckoff, fully-automatic full metal jacket blow you to pieces grenade launcher packing machine guns.

My favourite part was turning around on the bus to see a girl 'recruit' - who looked the geeky girl at school nobody talks to, big thick glasses, fuzzy toplip, that sort of thing - snoring, head back, mouth wide open...M-16 Arnie-in-the-film-Commando size machine gun between her legs.

My friends wouldn't let me take a picture. Cowards.
(Zutroy started without you, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 4:50, Reply)