Blogs from Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel, Middle East - page 22

Trip ItinieraryBlechman Family Fianlly, we are reaching the last mile in our preparations for the big west USA travel. this trip is a 7 years dream from the moment we were back from our "honey moon" in Australia, New-Zealand and Fiji in 2000. This time, we are planning the trip with our extended family including Roy and Michal (the new-old travellers). For all those who are not aware yet, we are planning a 4 weeks trip in West USA (California, Nevada) + 1 week of relax & massive shopping in Dallas (Visiting Eran and Merav). Trip dates: Departure: June 25th Arrival to Dallas: July 21st Back Home: July 27th Itinerary can be seen on the left side. Just click on the attaced map Main spots we are planning to visit: San Francisco, via route 1 to ... read more

Today started off as a good day. I woke up with a bit of a headache & upset stomach, but popped some Pepto & Advil and was good to go. Noah, Josh, and I took a bus to Bat Yam to meet Leore. The central bus station in Tel Aviv was a little confusing, but we eventually found our way and made it to our final bus. When we got off, Leore was at the stop to meet us, and then she took us to see her apartment. Afterwards, Noah and Leore went to her art exhibit, and Josh and I went to get some food near the beach and to lie in the sun. IMHO, Israeli girls are some of the best looking girls in the world! Maybe Spain will change my opinion, but what ... read more

Israel Middle East » Israel » Tel Aviv By JBandSandyApril 28th 2007text coming someday... maybe... As always, pictures and movies are available at PairedHearts.com ... read more

I have recently gotten some complaints that I have not continued my blog through Israel. Perhaps it is because I feel like I am home, and who blogs about their home? Apparently, many people do...and so what follows are vignets of being home...but in a different way then I have been home before. Every morning I wake up in Tel Aviv, Israel's non-existent equivalent for New York. The number of times I hear Israelis compare Tel Aviv to New York is hysterical. Perhaps one could compare it to a neighborhood of New York, say...Soho...but to do so would be denying both cities of their incredible uniqueness. Tel Aviv is thriving, vibrant, young and old crammed together on pavements that are uneven, and yet remarkably cleaner than India. The streets are as likely to have trashy, russian-clad ... read more

On this day we spent far too much time on the bus, but we first went to the Youth Village spnsered by Hadassah which is by Carmel, it was amazing. They started by serving troubled youth and now serve 250 youth in a boarding school type program that either are referred by social services or come from other countries and meager backgrounds wanting to move to Israel, as well as 300 youth from the area who are exceptional students who come as a day program---the school has a technical program, an agricultural program, and arts and performing arts program and a science program, they are winning awards all of the time and the students we met were truly exceptional! They havea much higher matriculation rate than the rest of the country and many students come back ... read more