Park Plaza Tel Aviv

... we did eventually find our hotel and manage to check in! We then returned the hire car, and set off to do some shopping! Tel Aviv is definitely the most Westernized city we had been to in Jerusalem, and definitely the city we felt most comfortable in. The ...

... draws flocks of tourists with restaurants, shops, and art galleries. Jaffa is the original settlement in this part of Israel; Tel Aviv blossomed much later. I climbed uphill form the port to the central plaza of Old Jaffa, taking in some fantastic ...

... one of the prominent landmarks. As the evening approached I moved to the Dizengoff Center which is the first shopping center of Tel Aviv. The center has two cinema halls, many shops, snack restaurants and a Food Market and Fashion Designer's Bazaar on ...

... contingent ahead of them, but I don't know who they were. The parade wasn't organized per se. There were the floats (the Tel Aviv University student union; Evita, a cafe; and the official Pride party to take place later that night), the PFLAG (parents ...

... 8217;re off again.   We return to the Austrian Hospice to pick up our luggage and go to the bus station to travel to Tel Aviv. Arrived at Tel Aviv bus station, another security inspection to enter the bus station.   We  were ...

... , on my left arm for a week after the competition. Ha! After our "free weekend," which I spent ill in my 4 Star Tel Aviv beachfront hotel room (thank you Sarah for putting us up there!), we headed to Pinat Shorashim, an educational workshop that was ...

When last heard from the V Man, having digested half of Israel's food supply, was on his way to the Tel Aviv airport for departure on Royal Jordanian Airlines, via Amman, Jordan, to Bangkok Thailand. Yes, the V Man is presently a Bangkokian. His digs: ...

... Our bus driver is amazing.  He takes the bus places we wouldn't drive a car.  When you enter a building in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem you and anything you are carrying, are checked/scanned.  There are soldiers walking around with their ...

... .  Yom Ha'atzmaut is Israel's Independence Day when members of the provisional government read and signed a Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv. The original date corresponded to May 14, 1948.  In the State of Israel it is a formal holiday; ...

... the room seemed small!  This is a very high tech room in comparison to what we saw of the original Knesset chamber in Tel Aviv, used when the state of Israel had just been formed. Our guide gave a clear explanation of the Israel system of government ...

... a couple of days off to spend some time with us in Jerusalem, so - we were really looking forward to it... Jerusalem is not far from Tel-Aviv (Israel is a small country, everything is "not far") - maybe 60 - 70 km (= less than 40 miles) or so...but on ...

... interesting to see the local Israeli's passing through the immigration by hand identification. The drive from airport to the Hotel Yamit Park Plaza is about half an hour. The hotel is located in a prime city-centre location at Hayarkon Street, facing ...

... concert at a club in the opposite corner of town in favor of a 10:00 p.m. movie in Dizengoff Center, the epicenter of Tel Aviv, in this case "Young Victoria" (Emily Blunt). Again paltry concessions and lots of commercials, but no assigned seats. When let ...

... a pirate in the Caribbean and New Orleans.  We had expected the Immigration Museum to be a repetition of the information we learned in Tel Aviv.  But it was far more than we expected.  It has a very moving film about life aboard one of the ...

... ," which is a very particular Hebrew word, meaning "we walked on Dizengoff St.," a well-known commercial street in downtown Tel Aviv. We observed the busy restaurants and stores, the hustle and bustle, settling on a nice-looking outdoor restaurant called ...

... area is also interestingly very Jewish – BA has a massive Jewish community, they even have the only Jewish McDonalds outside of Tel Aviv (that info is coming directly from the guide so don’t quote me on it :). In this Abaste area there is ...

... today visiting Parc Guell – the most famous park here in Barcelona.  Given the relative late time of my flight to Tel Aviv tomorrow (18:45), I’m hoping to spend the day touring the sights with Stefano tomorrow. Two days in Barcelona ...

... I could tell right away that navigating the city would not be as simple. That being said, my strategy in Israel for both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was to walk around all day on my first and second day, get a map, and then orient myself to figure out where ...