Day 54 - I ♥ TLV

Day 54 - Wednesday 7 July 2010

Needless to say, spent the day on Tel Aviv Beach for the first time since I got here!

Was great fun to go and chill, get some sun, swim in the awesome Mediterranean water, play some bat ball and get stung 7 times by Jelly Fish!.. I wanna start coining TLV Tuesdays..Make Chof Trumpeldor my own..

Regardless of the last part (which didn't really hurt that much) it was a great relaxing day, followed by another World Cup final..beer and burgers out in a pub..and all Kosher - this is the life!

=)

Day 22 - Lost

OK so this is night I don't wanna talk about!

No kidding, it was an awesome night bar a 45 minute hiccup at the very beginning..

Shabbat with the cousins was real fun like usual - relaxing and catching up and seeing the old friends in Yishuv who are now older and either in, finshed or just starting the army. We even went for a nice Shabbat arvo tiyul down to the ma'ayan..which ended up being some trees on the way to the ma'ayan because we couldn't be bothered!

After Shabbat, and feeling like a real Israeli, I thought I would tremp to Tel Aviv (for a friends Mesibat Shichrur from the army) from Ginot after Shabbat - which is fine, catching one from inside the fence of the Yishuv, I managed to find a guy going right to Ramat Gan - which was awesome..

Needless to say, Israeli's are crazy on the roads, and we managed to get there quite quickly..which was great, because he said he would drop me at a bis stop, and the buses come every 10-20 minutes..45 minutes later, I'm still stuck there, and friends in Tel Aviv are asking where the hell I am?!

Finally a nice car stopped and told me the bus stop was actually a 5 minute walk backwards, and that the reason at least 7 buses had gone straight past me was that they were not allowed to stop where I was waiting! Hmmm imagine how happy that made me!

I walked to the bus stop and caught a bus no more than 10 minutes later..found myself in Tel Aviv and where I needed to be 20 minutes later..and back on track for a fun night.

I'm going to pull the old Seinfeld trick of 'yadda yadda' right now between arriving in Tel Aviv and the next part, and say that the night was awesome fun, and I managed to pull back into Jerusalem close to before 5am..

Regardless, it will be night remembered as the first tremp as an Israeli and a night not to forget!

Day 22 - Shabbat 5 June 2010

Keep smiling =)

Day 13 - Rebirth

Day 13 - Thursday 27 May 2010

I spent the day today in Tel Aviv at the ועידת ישראל לאדריכלות ולעיצוב - Israel Conference for Architecture and Design. Apart from being able to view works from 70 of Israel's top architects, there were endless other things to do at this expo, and I ended up walking around and spending close to 6 hours there!

I listened to an interesting lecture on the current state of and future of Architectural design in Israel and spent some time looking beyond the architectural designs, and seeing some of the industry professionals and what they had to offer (comparing this to the form and function expor of Australia pretty much!)

But the photo above is one that just happened, I was on the balcony, getting some fresh air from the hussle and bussle inside, and I see this photo playing out in front of me. The old buildings of Tel Aviv, foreshadowing the building to the back of new life, the new skyscrapers of Tel Aviv, and topped off by none other that the mad traffic of any metropolitan city, and specifically Tel Aviv in the foreground.

Also, it was a day where there was a thick dust/sand cloud over the country. When I left the heights of Jerusalem early Thursday morning, it wasn't that bad. But in Tel Aviv, it was hard to see across an few streets ahead..I thought it was the volcanic ash cloud finally hitting..but not correct on that count!

Really, it was a fantastic day! =)