Grand Beach Tel Aviv

... de drukke markt, wat wel de eerste soort van 'buiten Europa'-ervaring was, en daarna met een bak vijgen een stoel op het strand (onder een dure parasol natuurlijk!) gepakt. 's Avonds kookte Ido Tsuksuke voor ons, een tomaten/uien stoofpot waar op het laatst een paar eieren in gemikt worden. Daarna zouden we nog uitgaan met twee vrienden van Ido - Ryan de in Praag wonende Amerikaan en Nevid - maar die kwamen zo laat dat we alleen nog maar op de bank hebben gehangen.<br><br ...

... 1st.</li><li>if it is possible I'll need to leave India somewhere in March (when my visa is over) then I'll need to return to Delhi to flight back home.</li></ul>Originally, once landed in Delhi I wanted to go straight to the North. But lately it seems to me like a bad idea - so the plan is to head to Nepal first, and then come to back to India. If so I'll have all the possible "India entries" spent... right away. Hope it's ok...

... she always cracks me up.<br>I also again met up with another cousin, Chen and her brother and sister, my other two cousins.<br>It was my cousin Gili's daughter's first birthday. Really, he looks so much like my father it's scary. He even told me that once in New Mexico, a random guy walked up to him and asked him if he knew my dad. <br> <br>The birthday party was very laid back, as is everything in Israel in general. Just a few family members. They ...

... As it turns out, a suspicious package of some sort had been spotted at #24 (Bugsy is at #26), and the bomb squad had been called in. Some fifteen minutes--and no explosions--later, everything was back to normal.<br><br>We walked through the Florentin neighborhood, which I hope has seen better days. There was a lot of graffiti, really bad housing stock, and some shady characters. A side street did feature, however, a string of interesting-looking, busy ...

... When things get to such a horrible condition, when you get treated like an animal, there is nothing but rage and hate. And when you feel like you have absolutely no other way of fighting back, you can begin to understand why firing some rockets at Israel becomes so appealing. It's just as wrong for teenagers to point guns in the faces of women and children walking from one neighborhood to the next, as it is to shoot a rocket at innocent people in Israel. Either ...

... We walked around town for a bit and we found our way to a great little hide away restaurant where we had hummus with chicken served with pita bread. After dinner we headed to a local bar where Ahuvah and her twitter friends met up to hang out. It was so awesome. I met Israelis, Americans, and other people from all over who are living and traveling around Israel. They meet up every few weeks with each other but daily follow each ...

... see several priests down there, swinging incense burners and chanting. We lit candles and looked at the iconic pictures covering nearly every inch of the walls around the altar and the steps to the grotto. When the priests left, we entered slowly and saw the 14 point star in the floor that marks the spot. A huge group of German tourists entered behind us--and we watched as many of them kneeled, kissed the star and got their photos made. They sang a hymn. I tried to ...

... in a home where I was told that when Palestinians demonstrate they want to destroy all of Israel or throw the Jews into the sea, but the chants that I heard were against this wall taking the village's land, and against occupation, and even a chant against apartheid. I never heard any chant like "no no to the Jews" or "no no to Israelis." Actually, I wonder if the people in the house where I was drawn know that lots of Israeli human rights ...