Hotel Beit Maimon Zichron Yaakov

... irgend so einen Infekt auf dem Mittelohr und muss eine ganze Batt**ie Medis nehmen...ich hoffe, es kommt jetzt wied** gut.
Heute Abend fahren wir jetzt mit ein** ganzen Gruppe Freunde nach (in?) Misgav zu Yaron Karmel tanzen und ich bin vollkommen n**vös, weil ja Maria morgen kommt. Kann gar nicht mehr warten...und freue mich, eine Woche F**ien zu machen. Habe wahnsinnig "Heiweh" im Moment nach euch allen!!!

Alles alles Liebe und bis gli hoffentlech!!!

eure Lena

... shoot, I could've climbed on it if I wanted too!) and it was also my first time in the Mediterranean Sea.

After exploring there for a while, we headed on back up to Haifa to meet with our hosts for the rest of the trip, Rafi and Dorit. They are a little bit older than us, Rafi is an environmental graduate student and Dorit is a medical resident in the hospital near their house, and they've got a 4 month old baby ...

... voller Montur aufkreuzen). Damit ist fuer mich auch endlich klar, warum die Israelis ein Outdoor-Volk ist, denn bei solchen Moeglichkeiten im eigenen Land wuerd ichs auch nicht daheim aushalten!

Fazit: Ein Gedi war ganz eindeutig eines der absoluten Highlights der letzten Monate, um damit in einem Atemzug mit Petra, den Drakensbergen und River No.2 genannt werden zu duerfen.

Noch am selben Abend kamen wir wieder im Fauzi an und durften gleich die ...

... south. Except for when we went out to the Barbarossa bar on Friday night, my friend and I essentially got the special 'tour' of Haifa from our hosts, rainy weather or not. To start, while they were closed for some unknown reason, we got to see the Bahaii Gardens from both the above and below avenues. Essentially, the Bahaii Shrine stands a little bit up the mountain, with the gardens stretching down in front of it all the way until the streets at sea level. The ...

... was so expensive, you couldn't allow yourself to purchase it. The toilet paper & napkins were so rough & hard, my sister would joke that it could cut us. Now it is just like the ones we have in the states. Although a lot of items seem more expensive than in NY. So many similar stores & brands we saw. We bought a sim chip from "Orange" for our unlocked Motorolla phone we bought with us from NY and purchased 50 (the minimum) amount of minutes ...

... areas of the Tel, where excavations are underway at different depths. As we walk up the hill, we split off to go to our various excavation zones. Some of us dig down in the Bronze Age levels at the virtual start of recorded history, some in the Iron Age, some even later in the Assyrian Period, after the fall of Megiddo to Tiglath-Pilesar III, which is where the Chicago Expedition stopped digging in most areas of the Tel in the 1930s. Here is where we are working: Area ...

... built a new one outside the walls. We bought a combination ticket that gave us access to some of the sites in Akko, picked up an audio guide, and entered the citadel. The most impressive feature of this place were the Knight's Hall, a series of vaulted halls that were uncovered 8m below street level. They served as the headquarters of the Knight's Hospitallers. The halls were appropriately ...

... that if you're going to get the complete ticket package for the Old Akko sites, then the admission to this museum is included! Had we known, we could have saved 30 NIS! We walk over to the El-Jazzar Mosque and admire the beautiful architecture. Our next stop is the visitor's center for the underground Crusader city. On our way there, we pass another orange juice vendor. We order one but Harvey ends taking a liking to the guy so we end ...

... creations include lamp shades, wall hangings, and note cards. They are very creatively done. Following our map, we walk into a building and are looking around, wondering why it is checked on our map. Someone walks up to us and asks if he can help us. We show him our map and he says that this really is quite an interesting building, but most likely it was checked off by mistake! He thinks it is the ugliest building in Zichron and perhaps that was ...

... at Megiddo have uncovered 25 strata of different civilizations on this tell (mound). The first strata are in the 4th millennium BC. Can you believe they go back over 6,000 years? My personal experience is my frame of time reference, and is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, years, decades. One hundred years, one thousand years, six thousand years - they all seem off the scale! I can't wrap my mind around that; there is no ...