It still took over 2 years. We knew we'd need to return to England a couple of times a year to see my mother, but when we budgeted in the cost of that travel, we couldn't make it work. |
My parents were both born in England. |
We didn't want to spend money shipping furniture, or things we could replace here. So we sent just the minimum, only things like books that couldn't easily be replaced. |
We had three young children. We weren't prepared - not for finding work, schools or for dealing with Israeli culture and all that entails. We loved Israel, but we had to return to England. It was a very difficult decision. |
We just took a taxi to the Desert Inn in Beersheba. Even that was like coming home - we'd stayed there many times before. |