Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Day 54: Haifa, Tel Aviv
July 19: Firstly, a big mazeltov to Abby and Leon on the birth of their new baby boy!
Did a tour of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa this morning (middle to bottom) in the boiling heat. Very interesting seeing the Shrine of the Bab and learning about the Bahai faith. The gardens finished being built in 2001, and took 15 years to create. Very beautiful, worthwhile, but lots of steps - thank god I was going down them!
Then headed down to Tel Aviv with all my luggage, by train, to check-in to the hotel in Tel Aviv. Farewell Haifa! Met some really nice USA Maccabiah people on the train too.
Had a quick look around the Carmel and Shenkin markets and Nachalat Binyamin (Carmel is like Paddy's market, but Binyamin and Shenkin are like Paddington markets on a Saturday, lots of arts and crafts).
Headed up to Herzliya in the evening to meet with some of my relatives, including Amit, who was born only three weeks ago!
Caught a bus tonight and got scared, but made it safely to my destination.
Been a little jumpy with all the bombs going off in various countries at the moment - hope it settles.
Did a tour of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa this morning (middle to bottom) in the boiling heat. Very interesting seeing the Shrine of the Bab and learning about the Bahai faith. The gardens finished being built in 2001, and took 15 years to create. Very beautiful, worthwhile, but lots of steps - thank god I was going down them!
Then headed down to Tel Aviv with all my luggage, by train, to check-in to the hotel in Tel Aviv. Farewell Haifa! Met some really nice USA Maccabiah people on the train too.
Had a quick look around the Carmel and Shenkin markets and Nachalat Binyamin (Carmel is like Paddy's market, but Binyamin and Shenkin are like Paddington markets on a Saturday, lots of arts and crafts).
Headed up to Herzliya in the evening to meet with some of my relatives, including Amit, who was born only three weeks ago!
Caught a bus tonight and got scared, but made it safely to my destination.
Been a little jumpy with all the bombs going off in various countries at the moment - hope it settles.
# posted by mishij @ 2:18 PM 
