Dec 3, 2011
Dec 2, 2011
Nov 26, 2011
New Batcave
ahja, i moved in september, beats my old cave.
here is my furnished room...
...the kitchen is still pretty empty, and in the bathroom i got a hot laundry maschine as subtenant; she is shy, so no pictures.
balcony - if sunny still warm enough for breakfast. love it.
i got some loud neighbors - make hell of a fuss every morning, but luckily i sleep like a rapunzel...
here is my furnished room...
...the kitchen is still pretty empty, and in the bathroom i got a hot laundry maschine as subtenant; she is shy, so no pictures.
balcony - if sunny still warm enough for breakfast. love it.
i got some loud neighbors - make hell of a fuss every morning, but luckily i sleep like a rapunzel...
The Small Crater - הַמַּכְתֵּשׁ הַקָּטָן
I finally went on a "Eugene Hike" again - and I enjoyed it a lot, although standing up at 6am with hardly enough sleep is still a bummer (sun goes down between 4-5pm, and you just don't climb rocks in the desert after nightfall).
We went to the little crater, which i briefly visited during my first trip to the negev.
Satellite photo
After enjoying the great view, we had to find a way down...
... we somehow made it.
It was kind of a surprise to find this beautiful pink wadi within the crater.
On the way to the gate of the devil.
We got hungry - luckily we knew how John the Baptist survived.
We even had a nice bank to rest.
We went to the little crater, which i briefly visited during my first trip to the negev.
Satellite photo
After enjoying the great view, we had to find a way down...
... we somehow made it.
It was kind of a surprise to find this beautiful pink wadi within the crater.
On the way to the gate of the devil.
We got hungry - luckily we knew how John the Baptist survived.
We even had a nice bank to rest.
Oct 28, 2011
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.
Oct 24, 2011
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.
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.
Oct 23, 2011
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.
next to مسجد قبة الصخرة
more to come...
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.
next to مسجد قبة الصخرة
more to come...
Oct 11, 2011
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.
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.
Sep 18, 2011
Fancy Triathlon?
I kind of do, although i never trained it nor entered a race. But since I'm in this group in Israel I practise a lot of sports!
One of the first questions after I got here was: "Are you biking?"
Turns out my new boss loves to bike, run and swim, and many of the postdocs too. So a bunch of them got road bikes - and so did i - and we get up early in the morning, before even the chicken get up and go for a ride to the beach, swim/bodysurf there, come back take a shower and שקשוקה and start working shortly after nine. Believe me: This is the best start in a working day, ever!
So when Daniel left, Lucio and Leah had the idea of a "Team Frydman" shirt, and asked me to draw something for a shirt as a leaving present. I did an ~ Art Deco sketch using pencil and gimp[!] on a windows [!!] pc...
One of the first questions after I got here was: "Are you biking?"
Turns out my new boss loves to bike, run and swim, and many of the postdocs too. So a bunch of them got road bikes - and so did i - and we get up early in the morning, before even the chicken get up and go for a ride to the beach, swim/bodysurf there, come back take a shower and שקשוקה and start working shortly after nine. Believe me: This is the best start in a working day, ever!
So when Daniel left, Lucio and Leah had the idea of a "Team Frydman" shirt, and asked me to draw something for a shirt as a leaving present. I did an ~ Art Deco sketch using pencil and gimp[!] on a windows [!!] pc...
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