Bell Hotel Tel Aviv

... That cost me the absolute last of my cash--I actually had to pay the guy with my leftover euros from Barcelona.
During my two very laid-back days in Tel Aviv, about the only notable thing that happened to me occurred while waiting at the train station (for the train that never came). As I was sitting on a bench, two adorable tiny stray kittens came right up to me and proceeded to repeatedly battle each other. It was immortalized on camera and totally made it worth having sat ...

... ist ihr Verlauf: sie orientiert sich naemlich nur stellenweise an der offiziellen Grenze Israels, der "Gruenen Linie". Stattdessen reicht sie an manchen Abschnitten bis tief ins Westjordanland hinein und sieht auf einer Karte wie eine besoffene Schlange aus. Ausserdem fuehrt sie vielerorts mitten durch arabische Ortschaften und hindert somit die Einwohner daran, ihre nur wenige Meter entfernten Nachbarn oder sogar ihre Arbeitsplaetze zu erreichen. Ohne spezielle ...

... else I’d been in Israel, Tel Aviv had turned out to be nothing like I had expected. A lot of people I met there scoffed when I said that my mere eight days weren’t enough. Most said you could do the place in two weeks – it is, after all, tiny. But in a place so diverse that a forty minute drive can take you from a beech party to a Franciscan parade, and another thirty into the heart of the world’s best-known and least ...

... the time we found it, but the guy at the front desk gave us a break on the admission price, and we took a quick walk through the several floors of exhibits.

After a ride back to the port area where we took a break, Kevin headed back to return his bike and rest, and I biked down the Tayelet again, past all the hotels and restaurants and traffic and honking and music on my left; ahead of me, Jaffa on a hill; on my right, the ...

... professor to An-Najah, so that they can teach via the web.

*** So, if you know any professors who may be willing to teach through internet feeds, please let me know!! Thanks Jennifer for already sending a name!!!!!***

They also took us on a tour of the old city of Nablus. Nablus has been a key battle ground for both Isalmic militants and the IDF. Although I'm sure the rockets that were fired from Nablus had some detrimental affect to the ...

Yet to see the Dead Sea, and with a few extra days to fill before having to return to Egypt. I had decided to go to Tel Aviv. The prospect of seeing another country was too much to resist, and considering how close I actually was, it wasn't going to be a huge diversion. I caught the early morning bus from Wadi Musa down to Aqaba and hopped back over the border into Eilat. I booked the five hour bus to Tel Aviv and had about an hour to ...

... station, there are no signs of war in Tel Aviv...just a bunch of tourists hanging out on the beach. Yesterday I walked to the Air Canada office in Azrieli Center, a huge modern office/shopping tower complex. I asked the lady at the desk if I could change my ticket to leave from Israel and hopefully make it home in the next few days ...

... sofas with lots of people just eating, drinking and people watching. The boardwalk extended about a mile down the beach. We spent about 4 hours just walking, sitting, drinking, and had a wonderful ice cream . The weather was perfect - probably close to 80 with beautiful blue sky, slight breeze. Such a relaxing day to start our trip. We then walked back to the hotel, stopping at a local market for water (although you can drink the water here), various cheeses ...

... claimed to be a witch and refused to say where he was going next because we might all be dark angels.

Then there was "Little Ben" who was in same room as Jake and me and was a bad stereotype of the southern Cali frat boy with a beer belly that would arrive home between 5AM and 7AM every morning with a beer in his hand and sleep all day. We ran into him a few times during daylight hours and he was wandering ...