Akkogate Guest Hostel Acre

... bleiben stehen, damit nicht gleich alles zusammenbricht. Wenn dann das Geld wied** da ist, baut sich jemand dort hinein seine eigene Wohnung. Auch sieht man oft angefangene neue Strassen, ab** dann hat das Geld doch nicht g**eicht...und die "stehen" dann einfach in d** Landstrasse, dem Autov**kehr gesp**rt.

so...nun zu den we***** lustigen Geschichten...

1) Wie sagt man als Nichtjüdin jüdischen Elt**n, dass man heiraten wird?
Wichtig ist hi** zu **wähnen ...

... up for that with a hell of a lot of conversation! It was nice though, I had a nice few hours there and then went to sleep in the evening after half a watermelon. I had to sleep with the cat (very scary looking thing - see the photos!) and with all the chinchillas darting around all over the place, it was definatly an experiance.


In the morning I had breakfast with Oleg and then left on the bus to the centre of Haifa ariving at the Bahai gardens just in time ...

... Als die Situation mit dem Krieg im Gaza-Streifen im Januar recht instabil wurde und Nablus mitten im Westjordanland liegt, entschied ich mich schweren Herzens, die Uni sausen zu lassen und schaute mich nach Alternativen um. Da ich nach wie vor in einer eher palaestinensischen Umgebung leben, aber dieses Mal nicht von den staendig wechselnden Bedingungen in den besetzten Gebieten abhaengig sein wollte, suchte ich in Nazaret, der groessten arabischen Stadt auf israelischem ...

... da einem die ganze Zeit Moskitos um die Ohren schwirrten und die einzige P**son mit Mueckenspray nur ein billiges Waess**chen aus Thailand zu bieten hatte. Alt-Akko selb** ist ab** gut **halten und hat - um einen V**gleich zu ziehen - in etwa einen aehnlichen Charme, wie Lamu ihn hatte. Es ist alles noch klassisch-orientalisch mit vielen Ma**kten und kleinen Schwarma- und Felafel-Schnellimbissen geblieben. Zu besichtigen gibts hauptsaechlich Bauten d** Kreuzritt**, die d** Stadt ...

... sont de la partie ici aussi, mais c'est son coeur antique, la vieille ville (décidemment, la côte regorge de bleds vieux de plusieurs millénaires), qui impressionne. La petitesse, la modestie de l'ensemble plaisent assez rapidement ; la bonne humeur de ses gamins également. C'est pour être tout à fait honnête la première fois qu'une succession de ...

... Ilana disapproved; she said, "You're getting more and more eccentric all the time." I'd meant to continue, "... but I'll always swing with someone who loves it." But, it was too late; Ilana wasn't listening anymore. The next morning, when I got to the hostel, Daniel handed me some pudding. Ilana led us to a local, cheese-making home, where she'd allegedly once been given a taste-testing feast at no charge. Daniel treated us to cheese and ...

... boarding school in the area. We continued up the coast to Acre(Akko) to the Crusader castle that we were going to tour. The first mention of this place goes back to the 19th century BC and has had a very long and conflicting history.  After wandering for a couple of hours in the heat, I saw my favorite part-the hammam.  It was in use until 1940 and has a lot of the original tile work still on the walls but there was a multimedia presentation about ...

... rule, some one hundred nightly orders were based here (mostly consisting of knights who had taken these lands in the crusades and decided to stay for religious or financial or inertia based reasons). The Hosteliers were one of the more famed branches and were entrusted to assist Christian pilgrims who landed at Acco to begin their land-based journey to Jerusalem. We had a nice stroll through the old fort and marveled at the immense size of the three story rooms with ...

... that occurred 2000 years ago. From Capernaum we drove the short distance to what is called the Mount of Beatitudes. This is the traditional site where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount. There is a beautiful octagonal Catholic church on the site, with some pleasant gardens round about. We sat on some steps in the gardens and took turns reading from the Matthew 5, 6 and 7, as we looked down on the Sea of Galilee and the fertile fields on ...

... a few beers and sweets with the Japanese whilst sitting on the rooftop of our hotel. Whilst returning from buying our beer (for the second time), there were a whole lot of people with M16's running towards us. It scared the absolute sh*t out of me before we all realised that it was obviously a training drill for members of the military, some sort of scavenger hunt or something around the old city. It was quite surreal to see teenagers running around he ...