{"id":77,"date":"2011-04-20T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T10:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-06-11T05:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:27:31","slug":"meetings-and-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/events\/meetings-and-greetings","title":{"rendered":"Meetings and Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tel Aviv Marathon trip<\/a> continued .. previous post Hotels and Onwards<\/a><\/p>\n

Just before 19h00, I scurried down to the lobby and immediately knew who Ms. Sharon Lewis was.<\/p>\n

Then I met Franziska Wauch, who is involved with a German tour company named, interAir.<\/p>\n

We were now waiting for the gent, who my taxi driver had told me (well, so I thought), was called Neil. It was no Neil but Nick and none other than the South African, Nick Bester, who is a Comrades legend of past years gone by and now working with the Nedbank Athletic Club.<\/p>\n

Time for a quick photo and then we were off to Active Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

Not having met Nick before but obviously having heard of his Comrades exploits it was nice to switch and say hello in Afrikaans, which at first took him by surprise and especially that I was a ‘soutie’ afterall, venturing out to speak the language.<\/p>\n

Active Tel Aviv was an interesting concept and of course to me; with my event management thought processing, I wondered what the gains were from having a week long activity EXPO linked to their Tel Aviv events.<\/p>\n

It was explained to me over the next few days about how the sponsors wanted this and that it was most prestigious to be on the city square (city market<\/em>) for the EXPO.<\/p>\n

The activities ran from the 31.3 – 6.4 and on the 7th most of the structure was moved to the events start and finish area at Charles Clore Park, on the beachfront below the InterContinental David. (very close and convenien<\/em>t)<\/p>\n

The Adidas store being moved in one day from the city centre to the beachfront is just mind boggling.<\/p>\n

By the time we got to the EXPO area it was already late, so all the images taken were via flash and not natural light.<\/p>\n

Local TV was also there which I got to see on their news coverage.<\/p>\n

Active Tel Aviv images<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t