Renaissance Tel Aviv

... some amazing Israeli pastries.  These folks really know how to do it.  After that we headed to our hotel, the Renaissance Tel Aviv. Our property is right on the Mediterranean so  the setting is beautiful.  As I type Richard is out on ...

... so prosperous.  I don't think any of us really realized this until we arrived and the comparison was so stark.  Tel Aviv looks like a city on the rise.  Plus, staying on the beach overlooking the Mediterranean doesn't hurt that at ...

... I was happy we did not try to violate Syrian or Lebanese airspace and rather enjoyed the twists and turns as we approached. Tel Aviv is a modern cosmopolitan town--the name means "new beginning" or literally "spring mound" and was chosen in 1910 ...

... race or religion. It was a very "interesting" experience. Another funny moment happened the other night. I went to a concert in Tel Aviv with Anna (from San Francisco), Nicole (from Australia) and Ophir. Ophir is a random Russian guy my friend in the ...

... share them Friends and Family!  1. Millenium Times Square http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumnewyork/index.html 2. Renaissance Tel Aviv - beach front - sweet! http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/tlvbr-renaissance-tel-aviv-hotel/ 3. ...

... city from east to west, from the Old City walls to downtown Jerusalem, the western portal of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. It is lined with shops, businesses and restaurants. Ussishkin Street: Menachem Ussishkin (1863-1941 ) was one ...

... layout and structures of the capital of the medieval Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem.       White City of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City ...

... in Edinburgh, but I want to be sure I sort of cap one off before I start a new one.  really this blog should finish in Tel Aviv, where i spent most of my time after i got back from turkey, or maybe in toronto when i got back from the whole trip and ...

... diary entry break will do me good. Kfar Achsel I left class early on Thursday (last week) and took a sheirut (shared taxi van) to Tel Aviv and from there, back to Afula, the town just outside of the Kibbutz I volunteered on 2 months ago. I went to ...

... , Long Way Round was one of the key inspirations for my own trip in general and the (intended) motorcycle leg from London to Tel Aviv in particular.  In a similar vein, Dave Gorman's America Unchained, which was on the Beeb a few months before I ...