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Tel Aviv Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tel Aviv, Israel
Breakfast in Tel Aviv
... day with them! The weather was warm and so was the sea so we spent the afternoon walking and wading along the Tel Aviv beach while watching some very talented kite-surfers. It looks like a fantastic sport, maybe one day we will try and learn how ...
Loooong 12 hour flight to Israel
So many people wearing yamacas and Jewish rabbis were everywhere. Very long and tiring flight with many kids running around and some crying babies. My mom (Helen) met this really nice Jewish woman and they talked throughout the whole flight - instant ...
Desalination plant in Palmahim
... so I use my time cleaning my system. Wednesday we had been to the most modern desalinationplant in Isarel in Plamahin near Tel Aviv. (30.000.000 m³/year) The principle of membrane Desalination is quite simple...Salt water is pressed through a dense ...
Jerusalem - First Visit
... and a security guard was killed, so everybody was still a little on edge. Our first stop was a lookout point somewhere between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I took some pretty photos (see flickr). It doesn't really look like the dessert you expect out ...
Beginning: flight(?) to Amman-Bangkok-Hanoi
Hi 5 days before the flight, and there is a strike in our airport: how shall we get to Amman? I feel pains in my teeth: is it because of excitement? I hope I will accomplish tomorrow my employed period, and have good time there after. See you ...
Promise Land
... to thing all the focussed energy went into whatever was causing the wing vibration. Anyway the prayers ended 45 minutes outside of Tel Aviv when by Israeli law everyone must be seated. Well, the gathering ended but the prayers were continued as the Jews ...
Some links in Spain.
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Bruchim ha'Baim l'Israel
... ; Normally, it would be jam-packed with tourists. What had happened in only six short months? Seeing the big "Welcome to Israel" sign was really something. I think that's when it really hit me that I was actually back in Israel, after four ...
Arrival in Israel
... we walked the lovely, narrow alleys through the artists colony where I met some of the beautiful, healthy resident cats of Israel. Tel Aviv is a modern metropolis, Israel's most cosmopolitan city and center of culture and entertainment. Our ...
Sick, Sleep, Sick, Tel Aviv, Sleep....
... am at night. Adam is still working there, but I just missed him. he is from Hatikva, the poor / immigrant neighborhood in south Tel Aviv and was sweet on Amanda. The Bar will become a rec / hang-out room. Made to rounds to my favorite Internet ...
Shalom, Haverim (frıends)
... size and its topology. Also, it has an excellent climate, we were told. From Haifa. it was back to Tel Aviv, where we were to end our Israel stay. WHile there, I personally witnessed several acts of violence and terrorism, which we at home call 'rush ...
From Vienna to Tel Aviv
... super easy, and I had no problems getting through border patrol. The rest of my study group was supposed to be arriving in Tel Aviv 2 hours after I did, so I had planned to wait around until I saw them come through baggage claim ... but after the crowds ...
Caesaria
Today I toured Caesaria, which is where Paul went before the Roman governor and asked to appeal to Caesar, before he was sent to Rome where he was executed. The city was built by King Herod, and is right on the coast. It was the site of the ...
The meaning of life
I wonder if our living experience here is one of constant expansion and contraction, similar to the way the heart works. So we experience joyful expansions as well as fearful contractions no matter what, which would explain the ups and downs of life. ...
The Miracle that is Israel
... , and the grounds were beautifully landscaped. We took a nearby train to the home of Bonnie's cousins in a newer community halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, called Modi'in. We were picked up at the station, and the warm welcome we received was ...
Tel Aviv is Victoria with more Yarmulkes
... skirts and induces them to busk and sell hand crafts and open stores selling marijuana paraphenalia? Given a choice between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, I would choose Jerusalem every time. The spirituality and history just seemed to hang in the air. It ...
Model United Nations conference in Israel
... the world stage... exacerbated by the media of course... causing ethnic, national and religious discrimination between the countries of Israel and Turkey started heating up... I wrote additional letters to parents, talked with my students some more and ...
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is a complete contrast. Only an hour by bus from Jerusalem, suddenly we could be in any western city anywhere. The city is small - the population is only 400,000 but the cafe culture is strong and the average citizen fairly wealthy. So close to ...
Present, past, and future
The more I see the present moment from the most harmonious perspective, The more positive memories I gather. The more positive memories I have, The stronger my belief that an harmonious future is ahead of ...
Vertical distance
Finally I managed to upload the Tour de France's stages alonh with the altitudes (there was some javascript work there even!) to MapSource. What I see now is even less encouraging than it was before - take a look at the picture. They say it took them 9h ...
Sabbath
Had a good night sleep after all the dancing last night. At first I was thinking about playing the 'groupie' for another day, making my way down to Eilat again to visit another performance of Astral Projection. But since there were no buses any more ...
Theory of relativity
... ? The maximal height is 2000 meters, but the accumulative accent is probably twice as much. The only climbs I did were going from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and from Kiryat Shmona to Nevet Ativ. These are not only "half tall" relatively the Stage #7, but much ...
Hectic travelling day: captain's log supplemental.
... 't make it in time. After some cuddly-puppy faces, they offer to have it ready at 11:30. [9:45] Stroll around again in Tel Aviv. [10:30] Found the diamond museum, get in for free somehow and spend an hour learning about these precious little gems. ...
Visiting Tel Aviv
... the Friday demonstration, Aunt Jen thought that perhaps I needed some good r&r so she took me to visit some friends of hers in Tel Aviv. I got to meet her friend Yael and her boyfriend and then another friend Eli took me to hang out on the beach. Eli ...
What's the weather like in Barcelona?
2 days to go... The weather report for 25th in Barcelona was upgraded to Chance of T-storms, 30% chance of precipitation , and it's even more fun in Andorra: fat 50% Chance of a Thunderstorm are expected there in the afternoon... Probably it's the time ...
I'm Back
... flight from Sydney to Bangkock on the 11th and then the flight to Israel. The flights were good and the feeling of landing in Israel was amazing. Those I landed in Israel and arrived back to my home in Ein Harod I still feeling that I'm not really at ...
good bye niki and tal
went to a really cool bar on our last nıght. was such a nıce way to fınısh our tıme together. bye guys, love you heaps, cant waıt til next ...