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Old Aug 17, 2014 | 2:46 pm
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chx1975
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Wow, really?? I never knew that... although in a pinch I can always yank out a tablet with Tripit and look up the address, I guess. I so often travel to a conference, the conference suggests a hotel, I reserve it, add a SuperShuttle reservation and that's it. I absolutely have no idea where the hotel is, the shuttle driver will know and I can't care less, all I have seen is a sliver of a map showing it in relation to the conference venue...

chx1975, sorry... I zip through security at Tel Aviv with just three or four questions.
When I was lining up for security screening in Munich about to board a Tel Aviv flight, this jovial older guy in a nice suit comes to me and says in perfect Hungarian he "accidentally" saw my name on the list and thought I am Hungarian and that he left Transylvania decades ago and how is living in Hungary these days and how are the salaries and so on. There were basically no other mobile security guys and noone else got this treatment and the only one doing this is speaking Hungarian? Surely accidental. It was hard to resist not to laugh -- it surely wasn't easy for the Munich security to find a Hungarian speaking guy just to interview me :P . Oh well.

As for getting out of Israel, I was strip searched twice (first in Eilat then in Tel Aviv) the same day. They couldn't figure out what I was doing for two months in Israel and their default is paranoid, so.

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