Carlton Nahariya

... es dort Gratiskonz**te und Kulturfilme aus all** Welt. Auss**dem haben sie einen Shuk (Märit) wo alles mögliche und unmögliche gekauft w**den kann. Es war sehr schön...wir sassen dann recht lange an dem Gratiskonz**t, so ein israelisch** Säng**, d** à la Bob Dylan Musik macht. War ganz int**essant und vor allem mega gmüetlech mit den beiden and**en. Oren und ich gingen dann wie gewöhnlich sauspät ins Bett (so drei Uhr od** so)...

3) Theat**festival Akko
Am ...

... water - crazy fish!!

In the evening I met up with olia again (she had been visiting her family in the north) and we went to Haifas beach which is pretty nice, we had the evening there walking around, sitting next to the water on plastic chairs and Olia somehow managed to get soaked, I think it was something to do with her lack of speed getting up when the waves were flying in towards us (understandable as she is 7 months pregnant!!)

We then went back ...

... Hanikra is right at the border with Lebanon...and I do mean RIGHT THERE! The parking lot we parked in was also the entrance to get into Lebanon...if the border wasn't closed. That's got to suck having all these neighbors that won't talk to you. And you can't travel to their country...the only way an Israeli can get out of Israel is by flying or sailing...there is no driving option.

Anywho, back to Rosh Hanikra. It's a really beautiful ...

It is getting hard to keep up with this blog.
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.

We headed north to Kibbutz Gesher Haziv for a relaxing shabbat with a stop at Ceaserea on the way. I am so proud of ...

... gefragt hat, ob wir von nun an nicht die City-Tour machen koennten. V**suche, ihn zu ueb**zeugen, dass das nur in leicht v**meidbaren Katastrophen enden wird, schlugen allesamt fehl...
Mit nur sehr vagen Kenntnissen und einem Schmi**zettel voll** Belanglosigkeiten machten wir uns am Sonntag um 10 Uhr zur Stadtfuehrung auf. Zum Glueck bestand uns**e Gruppe nur aus zwei Leuten und die waren sehr geduldig und genuegsam, und konnten teilweise sogar ...

... Mitbewohner ist Katze Betsy, die zwar Floehe hat, aber einen meistens so lange anbettelt, bis sie doch jemand streichelt. Ach, und die andere Managerin Suraida, die neben fliessend Arabisch, Hebraeisch und Englisch auch ziemlich gut Deutsch und Franzoesisch beherrscht. Und ein paar witzige Putzfrauen, deren Namen ich aber immer vergesse... Ein klasse Haufen also, und ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass ichs hier 42 Tage lang aushalten werde. Nicht zuletzt auch wegen den - meiner ...

... units, unpacked and cleaned up for dinner. Later that evening before turning in for the night, a few of us walked down to the Sea of Galilee to wade in the water and have a brief and informal devotional. The following morning on my way from my unit to the dining hall, I noticed a beautiful panoramic of the Sea. After breakfast Bambi and Yuval took us on our 3rd day of touring ...

... families can agree on how much each family fairly deserves. Mairon's was the last generation of children to live in the childrens' home. After that, studies began to show that separating kids from their parents is harmful. Virtually every kibbutz abolished the childrens' home. Mairon remembers his childhood as a fun, play-filled time. He's much closer to friends than he is to his biological siblings. But, kids can be cruel. Imagine spending ...

... for its original purpose for quite some time.... After a walk through the picturesque streets of the old city, which seem stuck in time hundreds of years ago (except for the very up-to-date souvenir shops selling T-shirts that say things like Uzi-does it - with a picture of the famous Israeli machine gun - or Don't worry America, Israel is behind you, or instead of the rock band Guns and Roses, advertises Guns and Moses and so on. We found a ...

... soldiers according to how they drank the water in the spring when he was going to battle (long story). Some of us tried drinking water from the spring only to find out later from another guide who said that probably wasn't a good idea and we could get sick. No signs of stomach trouble as of yet!! We drove by Mount Tabor, it is 1,850 feet high, and is the traditional site ...