Pale Rider
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That FB article is pure hogwash.
It does have the appearance of being written by a single issue campaign loony who has a vendetta against warmshowers.
That FB article is pure hogwash.
Is this not a part of the problem? Warmshowers, these days, seems to be viewed as a tool for finding places to stay rather than for connecting like minded people. When I signed up I had only the loosest, vaguest of notions for ever using it as a guest.I haven't used WS so far, was thinking of doing this on my future trips,
Well, you can use this service to either stay or host, and there isn't much demand for cycling accommodations in Israel. But yeah, the idea was not to save a few bucks on hotel - for me at least, the flight was and remains the main expense, but rather to connect with similar minded people. Luckily, alternatives exist. One can look for them here, among other places.Is this not a part of the problem? Warmshowers, these days, seems to be viewed as a tool for finding places to stay rather than for connecting like minded people. When I signed up I had only the loosest, vaguest of notions for ever using it as a guest.
I'm not so sure about that. I've read of quite a few bike tourists in Israel.there isn't much demand for cycling accommodations in Israel.
Perhaps you're right, we'll see. I haven't seen many, but just in case, I did fill in a profile on trustroots.org, which appears to be an alternative to WS.I'm not so sure about that. I've read of quite a few bike tourists in Israel.
I think one can ask to have a stamp put on a separate page of paper, rather than in the passport. Israelis don't get any stamps in their passport at entry/exit (it's all biometric and automatic these days), but I'm not sure whether it's true for foreigners.As far as I recall, one of the issues with travelling in that part of the world is visa stamps in passports. A stamp from a "wrong" country can deny access to another. Some folks are lucky and have dual citizenship so can use separate passports, the Dutch (unusually to my mind) offer two separate passports to some of their citizens specifically to get around this issue.