Marina Tel Aviv Hotel

... at the docks where you can hook a right to the river, lined with grass, bike lanes, and heaps of athletic facilities: basketball courts, a Venice beach-like open air gym, even a climbing wall that we stopped to watch some little 8 year-olds tearing up.<br><br>This last was a bit of a sore reminder of all the gear - harness, shoes, beaner, chalk bag - I'd packed in anticipation of doing a lot of climbing in conjunction with camping while motorcycling through the Alps ...

... there is a night train that takes me to Barcelona. Booking through the Castelliano WEB wasn't easy, but the prices were surprisingly low. Now, the only thing I should care about is how to get to Santiago by time ...

... I hope they all blow up in that car." I don't like this. We have a conversation about the Situation. I talk about a documentary that I saw once. I say that they are just people like us. He asks, "well why do they kill us?" "we kill them too" I reply. I tell him that we are all just people and that most of them are normal and they suffer more than we do. They are in the unfortunate situation of having mofos ruling and brainwashing them, they terrorize ...

... are we and 4 other couples had access to 3 natural pools of water in which you floated to the sounds of new age music. You could freely roam from one to the other. Each pool was different. The first contained highly concentrated salt water (like the Dead Sea). the buoyancy was exhilarating, and I loved the weightless feeling. Bonnie was not in agreement however--she didn't like all that salt. Her preference was the second pool, in which the water was fresh and pure and at ...

... some reason. Again aboveground, we wandered the quiet artists' quarter, the streets all named for signs of the zodiac (though we didn't find our Scorpio Lane), full of galleries of all kinds of art. One of the first we found was a fascinating collection of vintage Israeli posters and photographs from the early years of independence to today, including many patriotic exhortations and also movie posters. Kevin and I both plunked down a pretty penny ...

... took of your bag, and then search anything questionable from the image (1st check of my backpack/purse). They were really suspicious of my converter. They also rub everything w/ some kind of ion swab and then check it to make sure there is nothing questionable. I passed this section w/ flying colors b/c I had a lint roller in my bag, and the lady automatically assumed I had a dog ... nice conversation ensued. <br><br>Once you pass your scans ...

... crash onto an island, where the notable personalities and comics we choose from the soldiers and commanders will be represented by us actors. There are so many jokes to tell. This could take long to plan.<br><br><br><br>Over this most recent two-week period, I have still embodied a very disciplined, athletic, and overall solid soldier, but I began even more to push the limits of what I could do and say in certain situations. When I had to keep repeated the salute within our ...

... stop any kind of free movement which is a real shame but its hard not to see why its done when ********s like Hamas are blowing themselves and others up. One plus point for the old arabs tho is they get to check out the hot isreali birds in their army gear which is increadibly arousing, 20 year old birds with **** off great machine guns and done up nicely with make up and nice hair parading around with nonchalant authority. Its almost enough to make one want to be a Jew.

so one week has come and gone, and today is my last day in israel; going out for a big night out and then heading straight to the train station to take me to the airport. it was fun visiting israel and not being a tourist for once. i even think my hebrew's improved ever so slightly. yesterday i got to catch up with tomer over ...

... was as a counselor with an American teen tour group) and my husband wasn't back for 25 years! &amp; with both of us having Israeli names, that's a tragedy! Our kids, obviously, have never been there. Yet they learn about it in school. So this is a very exciting &amp; special trip for us, other than the fact that it's our son's Bar Mitzvah. Although it is an expensive trip &amp; a long trip &amp; with the economy being in a somewhat precarious position ( the dollar is ...