A few days in Israel

13-18 April 1997

We found ourselves in Haifa, Israel. The strangest thing for me and this is coming from someone who has lived in Northern Ireland, Nearly everyone carry's guns. We were in a bar and behind it we could see several automatic weapons. The waitress's who happened to be all teenagers were doing national service and in their spare time they would wait tables etc. it was them who owned the guns.

I might add that in Israel or at least Haifa these young fly by night waitress's did not get paid by the bar, they only got the tips punters provided which we were blissfully unaware of until one of them who got a bit disgruntled with our lack of generosity was kind enough to tell us. Needless to say that we got a bit more generous after realizing that a disgruntled spotty teenager with a semi-automatic weapon at her disposal was probably not going to do anyone any favours.