Carlton Nahariya

... sind wir dann mit Sibylle und ihr** Schwest** (die aus d** CH auf Besuch ist) nach Akko ans Theat**festival gefahren. Das war echt d** Hamm**. Das ganze Festival findet in ein** ehemaligen Tempelritt**-Burg statt. Sie haben die Ruinen aufgearbeitet zu mehr**en Theat**sälen, die nach aussen mehr od** we***** offen sind. Die Stadt Akko selbst ist geteilt arabisch-israelisch. Die Atmosphäre ist orientalisch geprägt (arabisch** Shuk, viele Autos, Moscheen, Muezzin und ...

... pass, carry-on security and finally into a large mall full of shops and restaurants before boarding with only about 25 minutes to spare. My advice to take a minimum of 3 hours, 4 hours would be safer. Our flight home was without incident and I discovered that for a long flight you want to be somewhere in front of the engines as the return flight was much easier for me. Our trip of a life-time was over.

It is getting hard to keep up with this blog.<br>We ended our stay in Tel Aviv with a great trip to the Palmach museum. A great presentation of history in the form of a traveling play or skit throughout the museum.<br><br>We headed north to Kibbutz Gesher Haziv for a relaxing shabbat with a stop at Ceaserea on the way. I am so proud of ...

... Klimaanlagen in jedem geschlossenen Raum, so auch in unserem Zimmer im Masada Youth Hostel. Zum abkuehlen hatte das draussen sogar einen Pool, welcher im Gegensatz zu der Absteige damals im Death Valley in Kalifornien tatsaechlich kuehles Wasser hatte. Damit habe ich auch schon die einzigen Orte genannt, an denen wir an dem Tag waren: klimatisierter Bus, kalter Pool, klimatisiertes Zimmer.<br><br>Wer jetzt denkt, dass wir nur aus Jux ans Tote Meer ...

... of standing right next to her body, head to toe, began to creep up from the pit of my stomach. Mum of course was crying, Borik just silent, but Dedushka really made me think . He was annoyed at the fact that we didn't bring a cloth to wipe the stone. He walked around to find a bottle of water so the stone would blea; he talked to my grandma, saying "how is it you left us all, my dearest Ida" i saw the love that this 80 year old man carries with him. To see hiim "taking care" of a ...

... There are evn these little kiddie tables that the girls sat on. We continued on to the Old City of Tsfat. We saw the old synagogue and the many galleries with their beautiful art, candles, judaica etc. It was nice to see. We drove to Rosh Pina and walked around there a bit &amp; went to Shokolata-main fare is chocolate, although it has food too. Delicious chocolate souffle!! &amp; we saw the bartender had a t-shirt from a restaurant in Brooklyn &amp; found out he was there ...

... and onion sandwiches, which with a little salt and pepper are particularly good (in this author's opinion at any rate). Very small servings of cornflakes come next in small plastic containers with sealed lids. Plastic bags full of milk stand in plastic pitchers next to the cereal. The corners of the plastic bags are clipped so the milk can be poured out of the pitchers into the cereal containers which are then resealed to be carried to the tables. Last on the ...

Today we drove to Bet She'an, a place that has been continuously inhabited for the past 6,000 years. In Bet She'an there is a Tel (Tel means different layers of civilization within a hill) that has 19 layers of civilization within it dating from 333-63 BC. In the 1970's, Israel was going to excavate near Bet She'an and discovered a city next to Bet She'an called Scythopolis ...

... to anthropological prehistoric research of the development of the human species. The theory that Homo sapiens did not develop from Neanderthal man, but that both lived contemporaneously, is becoming increasingly accepted: Neanderthal man became extinct while Homo sapiens developed into the modern human race.<br> The El-Wad Cave (Cave of the Valley)<br> This is the largest of the Mt. Carmel caves. The accumulated layers provide evidence of human presence from the end of the ...

... stones were piled without the aid of cement. The "Western Walls" of underwater Caesarea do not stand anymore however, as they all tumbled down. <br> <br> Some scientists believe that the breakwater walls formed an intricate system of sluicing whereby the power of the sea was weakened, but how this functioned is not known yet. What seems certain is that the earthquake of 130 BCE pushed the harbour floor up, whereby the breakwaters came to lie just under the water surface. The ...