Regular readers of my blog http://www.leoroberts.wordpress.com (yes, both of you) will be aware of the initiative started by some friendly strangers on the AcousticLife forum on which I lurk to enable me to buy a couple.of guitars for the Jerusalem Arc children and youth camps.
With their donated money in my wallet, I walked up Jaffa St (guitar shop closed) and into Ben Yehuda St to its intersection with King George St to the second shop I had been told about.
Through the security barriers and down the stairs led me to my destination. With my 2 (non-guitarist) colleagues looking on, I then played every acoustic they had (apart from the Martins which were a teeny bit above my budget!)
Eventually, I settled on a Washburn D10S as the “main” guitar and a lovely, but cheap, Cort AD880. These will be added to at camp by a cheap, but not very nasty, nylon string guitar in blue (!)
Then the bargaining begins. The two guitars alone use up my budget but I want gig bags, spare strings, plectrums (plectri?), capos… well I ended up with all of those plus a joyo tuner and a string winder 
I even got a free set up on the Washburn to lower the action a bit.
To be fair, the guitars picked themselves but it took an hour or so because the shop was air-conditioned and, outside, it was 32 degrees!
I hope my friends in the forum are happy with my choices…
Oh, and then we went to Papa Andrea’s for lunch
I don’t think you can see the motif on the straps … I’ll add a pic before levering them off with some scissors!
Excellent Leo, and good choices too. I bought a Washburn D10 for my brother in law a couple of years ago and always thought it was a handsome and capable guitar.
Now comes the important stuff – teaching!
Good stuff Leo – I’m sure you’ve made good choices!