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Iwent to Naot Kedumim (the Biblical Gardens/Forest/Zoo place) today with a friend who's been staying with me for a few days. (There were going to be other folks coming, but they couldn't make it.) The actual time there was lovely- the informational packet/self-guided tour materials were pretty inconsistent: some stops had lots of quite precise information, others were pretty random and just poetic descriptions with little information. But the assortment of quotes from Tanakh and Talmud was pretty nifty, and I got some lovely pictures of plants and the like.
However, the travel was quite adventurous. In order to get there, the directions we were given involved leaving on a bus that started in Me'ah Shearim, so we had to take one bus to get there, then another bus from a different bus company, and then we were supposed to switch to another bus from that same company. So we get off the second bus, and find the right stop at which to wait for the third and final bus to get there. Well, half an hour later, we're still waiting, and getting impatient. So my friend calls the bus company- turns out the bus only comes once an hour, and it should have come while we were standing there. So we wait for the next one. As we're waiting, we look at a bus map for the Other bus company that stops there, and find that they have a bus that goes where we are going also. In theory, the bus we were originally waiting for should have showed up first, but it did not, so we took our other option. (In fact, the whole time, both going and returning, we never saw either of the two buses that we theoretically needed going in the correct direction). The whole nonsense meant that it took us almost 3 hours to get where we were going, which is about as long as we spent at the gardens themselves. It was fun, but quite absurd. Coming home was significantly faster, but still time consuming. I still feel like there ought to have been a better way to manage it, but I haven't figured one out.
This evening I had tea with a friend. Tonight, sometime while I'm asleep, one of my roommates should be returning. I'm going to go do the dishes shortly so that she returns to a reasonably presentable home (not that there are So many dishes, just as a sort of good-will gesture).
However, the travel was quite adventurous. In order to get there, the directions we were given involved leaving on a bus that started in Me'ah Shearim, so we had to take one bus to get there, then another bus from a different bus company, and then we were supposed to switch to another bus from that same company. So we get off the second bus, and find the right stop at which to wait for the third and final bus to get there. Well, half an hour later, we're still waiting, and getting impatient. So my friend calls the bus company- turns out the bus only comes once an hour, and it should have come while we were standing there. So we wait for the next one. As we're waiting, we look at a bus map for the Other bus company that stops there, and find that they have a bus that goes where we are going also. In theory, the bus we were originally waiting for should have showed up first, but it did not, so we took our other option. (In fact, the whole time, both going and returning, we never saw either of the two buses that we theoretically needed going in the correct direction). The whole nonsense meant that it took us almost 3 hours to get where we were going, which is about as long as we spent at the gardens themselves. It was fun, but quite absurd. Coming home was significantly faster, but still time consuming. I still feel like there ought to have been a better way to manage it, but I haven't figured one out.
This evening I had tea with a friend. Tonight, sometime while I'm asleep, one of my roommates should be returning. I'm going to go do the dishes shortly so that she returns to a reasonably presentable home (not that there are So many dishes, just as a sort of good-will gesture).