Colony Hotel Haifa
28 Ben Gurion Street Haifa, Israel
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Beautiful Haifa
We splurged on a taxi from Tel Aviv to Haifa (400 NIS = about 125 dollars). Taxis and train would have cost about half that, but we enjoyed not having to schlep the bags, etc. Noah was already falling asleep (still jet lagged) and so we decided to extend our taxi ride to the train station into a door-to-door service. Our cabdriver, Chaim, was a …
Haifa and Akko
The group visits Caesarea this morning on the way to Haifa, but I miss this site in order to take an early train to Akko. The Baha'i Shrine there is open to the public from 9am until noon, and I want to visit it again for the first time since my Baha’i Pilgrimage in 1973. I arrive in Akko about 8:50am, and get to the Shrine by 9:05am. I …
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R & R time
The sound of silence, yes it is bliss. Not sure if I mentioned earlier, on Sunday evening we went out for a farewell dinner with Davita and Randi. They had wanted chinese food, and I searched for a place, but they must have closed, as nothing was at the address. So we ended up back at HaBank, which is always good.
Monday we delivered the girls to the airport and saw them off on their journey back to Canada. After that we drove into Old ...
Ein Hod, Zichron Yaacov, and Shopping
... at the beach today. At 1000AM it was already +30, toasty. It was getting hot, so after we had some lunch there, we packed up and came back to the flat. We all had a lazy afternoon. It is now 745PM and we just finished having Shabbat dinner. Annette whipped up a great dinner of roast chicken, couscous, peas, and challah. I almost forgot the wine, which of course Annette drank most of the bottle.
Finished off a nice day with ...
Sizzled at the beach
... the tibdit of serving in the IDF. When he found out we were from Canada, he said he has family in Toronto. At least he did not ask us if we knew them. He then brought over, on the house, all kinds of appies. One was a cauliflower dish, all cut up mixed with sesame paste, very very tasty. I was the adventerous one, and had chicken livers with onions. OMG, absolutely delicious. Almost as good ...



