Haifa Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Everyone has a crazy cab story, but Egypt is something else. Service taxis go between Cairo and Alex all the time. Basically, they're small vans that hold about twelve people and leave as soon as they're completely full. These drivers and all young and reckless, driving like it's a video game. Cisco and I took one to Alex from Cairo, we were bot...

Day 12 - Haifa and Akko Our travel today would lead us north along the coast all the way to the Lebanese border atop the "white cliffs of Israel" at Rosh Hanikra. The cliffs themselves aren't all that stunning, the border security is very imposing, though, and the fact that only 2 years ago there were rockets whizzing over it, bombarding norther...

i really don't remember what day i landed in israel, and i'm not sure it really matters, but it's been about one month now, and so much has gone on that I've negleted updating my blog.... so for all you curious minds out there interested in knowing what the hell i've been up to here in eretz israel, i thought it about time to write something. i ...

Sunday was an intern trip up north to the Iton chocolate factory. They make all sorts of chocolate and confectionary, but unfortunately there were no rivers of chocolate or umpa lumpas. We did however get to wear some stylish pionk hats and overalls, wash our hands at stations with special sensors that wont let you in unless you've done it prope...

Since David's sunburn at the beach incident, life in Haifa has been going well. We are taking Ulpan (intensive Hebrew) classes at the university and although a lot of what we're learning is review, it's good since we've both forgotten so much of what we learned last time we were here! Everyone in the class is really nice and although the teacher...

The original plans for my Great Adventure(tm) included a 5 week stint in Jerusalem taking part in an intensive language course (Ulpan). When I scrapped that plan, I figured I'd have a month in Israel to just relax and slowly re-adjust to "normal life". My vision of this "month-to-be" included: visiting relatives, hiking, sightseeing, reading boo...