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So I am out in Tel Aviv for Affilicon and thought I'd do a daily blog – Lets see if I can keep this up!! Arrived yesterday (Saturday) – Was a little nervous going through passport control as I had heard all sorts of stories of how they drill you with questions, but all this came to nothing as the only question I got asked was the usual, why are you here, etc etc.

First thing I noticed is how dam nice and hot it is here and more importantly how dam nice and hot the girls are!! The rumours are true, Israel really does have the most beautiful women! Unfortunately the conference hotel isn't so beautiful – Horrible is being generous But hey its near the beach and has free internet so not all bad and to be honest I don't intend on being here too much. Does make me think though about hotels at our events as we always get comments on that, is it better to have a cheap nasty hotel so everyone can stay or an expensive nice hotel where you limit the amount of people staying there – The ideal is in the middle but there's the challenge; anyway I am going off topic!

Once settled, I went down the beach which is bloody lovely, shed loads of kite surfers, more beautiful women and great bars. Took me about 5mins to find Adriaan from US-blackjack.com who if you know is always a good guy to meet for a beer because its never just one. On a side note you feel dam safe in the bars, the bouncers have guns!! Being from England, I was pretty shocked, this was just a small average bar and they are all tooled up to the max!

Next stop was dinner with Josh from Rome Casino, Wael from SlotoCash, Rebecca from CasinoCity, and Adriaan and Wendy from US-Blackjack.com – Dinner was at a place called Messa and was awesome – Thanks Josh for picking up the tab! We then followed Josh to a club in the port called Garian or something like that. This place was nuts and completely rammed with crazy Israeli's partying hard which was surprising as this was supposed to be the equivalent of their Sunday – Luckily Josh had booked a few tables so we managed to get through the masses at the door trying to get in and proceeded to get pretty hammered We then hooked up with the Lucky18 guys who are ridiculously connected in this city, they got us into another area in the club which was where bar rafaeli was celebrating her birthday, I didn't know who the hell she was apart from she was hot – Googled her this morning and feel I should have put more effort in now......

Anyways, so now on Day – 1 and sitting by the pool writing this blog in perfect heat – Got to sort my booth today (Joy!) then we have the opening party for Affilicon which should be interesting as I am keen to see if these retail affiliate parties are as good as the gaming ones – Will update again tomorrow.....Probably