Negev Akko Haifa

Impressions from last week: Masada, Ein Gedi, Dead Sea, Akko, Haifa. I've been to all these places before and posted photographs here, so if you'd like to know what they looks like, check my archive.

Hula Hoop

We went to the north to Hula reserve and Hula lake - I heard there would be a lot of migrating birds: pelicans, cranes,...
When we were at the reserve they told us they didn't have too many birds. We still saw white-throated kingfishers, cranes, herons, and this crazy birds. However my old zoom lense does not get me as close as my new one used to.







The lake is quite nice - the round is a bit more than 8km and they rent golf carts, pedal cars, bikes,... feels like childhood, pple started racing with others, and in between you watched the lake and the birds.



We went to kapernaun afterwards and had a great view of the kinnereti - in this light you could mistake it for the dead sea.

Holiday Season

So, the last few weeks were a couple of interesting holidays - first of all, since october we are writing a new year: 5772, then there was 'yom kippur', then 'sukkot', then there were some more.
The last few days i had a very nice visitor here, who also brought me my old d70 camera, so there are photographs again!
I've revisited some of the places, got new impressions and discovered new stuff. I still have the rental car - feels good to be mobile. Anybody selling a car close to rehovot?

ירושלים, which was packed that day. I thought easter was a bad time - but we were in traffic jam all the way up to the city, in the city, and in the old town.





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more to come...

His tory

ok. no camera yet. so 2 old pics to keep the blog living. i took them in june in jaffa/florentine.
i was travelling a bit in september, spent a weekend up north in a kibutz close to haifa with a wild beach, which was great.
i joined the polish-italian community on a trip to akko with very interesting topics for discussion in the italian movie-club.
things change here all the time. people come and go. i got new flat which is great. i bought a new laundry maschine, which is even greater. the guy who came for the installation was a game. he refused to understand english, and had me call somebody for translation, just to tell me, that i will not be able to get the laundry maschine into the small space with the plumbing. and i have to remove the siphone and he wouldn't help me in any case. and he'll just sign my warranty paper.
so i did it alone, which took about 2min. i think he wanted to do something cool, like being a disc-jockey, instead of working in an electronic store. which was kind of funny, after i watched thee zohan.
i thought it's just another stupid ben stiller movie, but living here opened my eyes. most of the jokes had more truth than you'd think.

anyways, next week i'll get my old camera i left with a friend in linz and i will revive this blog.