We don't usually enjoy traveling in large cities. If you read back on our travels we usually enter cities just to stock up on essential stuff as well as essential pleasure (you sometimes just HAVE to have a good meal and a latte) Some big cities are worthwhile to visit. Rome gets the taste-buds flowing, San-Francisco is pleasant, Hong-Kong combines the East and West, Jerusalem is truly the most beautiful city in the world, Berlin is so...well...German and Paris has that je-ne-sais-pas that makes it really romantic. I'm positive that living in these cities is an enjoyable [View Full Entry]

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flying to our vacation I can’t tell you too much about the flight. I’ve been in 12 flights in the past year but every time we leave the ground I fall asleep. After some time I wake up and everyone around me is excited at being in a new place. Almost always the person sitting next to us - who at first had a very worrisome face as soon as he saw me boarding - compliments me on being such a good traveler. We then leave the MATOSH ( מטוש Liyabrish for: plane ) and wait for the stroller to [View Full Entry]

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Slartibartfast: "Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, 'Hang the sense of it,' and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day." Arthur: "And are you?" Slartibartfast: "Ah, no. (laughs) Well, that's where it all falls down, of course." From: Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy There are no straight roads in Norway. They all go [View Full Entry]

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Counting the shear miles traveled, most of the travel I have done in the last 6 years was of the most unpleasant, most tiring, and non-blogged about travel called "the business travel". On most accounts there is inherently little in common between business travels and the relaxing and exiting vacation travel. The worse thing about business travel is, naturally, being away from Hagit and Liya. For me it usually means missing them and missing the experience of spending time with them. From them, my work travel adds major burden since I am not at home to help in the day-to-day stuff. [View Full Entry]

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Superman’s closet One of the good things about one of my recent business trips to Munich was that I knew about it ½ a year in advance so I could coordinate with my friend Ohad to join me at the end of the week for a few days in Austria. Clothes indeed make the man. At the end of the last day of the trade-show, with all the visitors already leaving the grounds and Ohad already on the way in the car, I went into a small closet. I took off my suit and tie and put on a worn [View Full Entry]

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“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. “ ~Lin Yutang On our last week in Turkey we mainly did the beach thing. We enjoyed our time in Turkey very very much. They say the genes of Chimpanzees and Man are 97% similar. But the 3% make a huge difference. When traveling to a foreign country you usually find that 97% of the way people live and behave around the world is the same as it is at home and you spend most of your time [View Full Entry]

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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it." - Rudyard Kipling 1st of Elul arrived (September 1st in the Turkish calendar ) and with it also the 1st of Ramadan and the Moslem world entered a different phase, the holy month of Ramazan (Ramadan in Turkish ) The Muslims are expected to follow the 5 ‘pillars’ of Islam, one of them is keeping the fast of Ramazan , if capable of doing so. When preparing for the trip, we saw that the ramazan will begin at the middle of the trip, but we did not know [View Full Entry]

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“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains , and then find somewhere where I can rest in peace and quiet… somewhere where I can finish my book” - Bilbo - The Fellowship of the Ring We spent the last 10 days in the Kachkar Mountains and Eastern Turkey. We will let the photos tell the travel story and Hagit will describe how it is to travel with a toddler Traveling with Liya A year ago, I talked to a friend who traveled with their 7 month old to London. She explained the difference between traveling as a couple to [View Full Entry]

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"Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what you've got Till its gone' - Joni Mitchell We spent the last 72 hours in Europe. When we landed after a comfortable flight, in which we had 4 seats to ourselves, we reached the luggage claim to find that ONE OF OUR BAGS IS LOST!!! Since it is not the first time we have missing luggage we quickly reported it in the ‘lost and found’ and went on our way feeling sure it will arrive on the next day’s flight. After 3 days of waiting we understood we will [View Full Entry]

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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon We are at the airport ready to begin our long awaited "vacances". We have been busy since returning from the far-east almost 2 years ago. Most of our energy was spent on "life" - Yaron started a new job, Hagit finished yet another university degree ( 3rd one - apparently she is as smart as she is beautiful y.b. ), we bought a new car. The uninspiring day to day we all share until we open the door (and po [View Full Entry]

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