Posts under ‘General’

On our previous trip to the US, both IsraeliDad and myself were severely struck with jet lag. At least I think it was jet lag, very likely aggravated by stress, a fair amount of cultural shock amd even illness (I came down with a fever three days into the trip). We were fortunate enough to [...]

Finally! Season Four of the Israeli version of Big Brother started on Sunday. As with previous seasons, I am going to post about the housemates, for those of you who speak some Hebrew and try to follow the show. These posts have proved to be very popular in the past, so I decided to take [...]

It’s been two months since we returned from our travels in the USA & Canada in 2011. Finally settling back into our comfortable routine, I think I finally have the time and energy to blog again. If it’s alright with you all, I’d like to share here some of our travel stories and replay our [...]

This post is about a campaign calling Israelis who left for the US to come back home. When we were traveling in the US, browsing Israeli websites from American ip addresses, the ads kept coming up. “Come back home before Abba turns into Daddy”. Abba being the Hebrew word for Daddy. They had several versions [...]

We’ve been on the road for almost 40 days now and finally, I have some time to update this blog too. “Too” is used because I regularly update my travel blog in Hebrew, with plenty of images for every day. Seeing as I have no time to update both blogs, I started adding a recap [...]

Just a quick note to post our latest itinerary – May 2011 16-21 – San Francisco 22 – Jamestown, CA 23-26 – Yosemite NP, CA 27-29 – Monterey, CA 30-31 – HWY 1 June 2011 1-4 Los Angeles 5 Route 66, AZ 6-8 Flagstaff & Page, AZ 9 Grand Canyon NP 10 Monument Valley, AZ [...]

Nationally, this is probably the strangest week in the year, squeezing in both Memorial Day and Independence Day. For the benefit of non-Israelis living here, here’s a recap of the next 48 hours in Israel: Today (Sunday), we begin the saddest day of the year, Memorial Day. Nothing like the American version, this one is [...]

I haven’t posted in a while – too busy with things around here and with planning the up and coming trip (less than four weeks before we leave!) I figured the easiest way to catch up on blog posting here would be by including a few pictures from our family adventures from the past month [...]

This year has been officially declared as (yet another) drought year. We are having much less rain than in previous years and the weather is much warmer. On the bright side, this winter is wonderful for hiking. Perfect hiking weather pretty much everyday – coolishly warm (or warmishly cool, if you like), clear blue sky, [...]

Floods all over the world, in Australia, Brazil and Europe. Here, the weather is fine, sunny and dry, mostly, but we face our own murky waves, those of racism and hatred. Racist statements by Rabbis and political figures, demonstrations against African refugees, and now Avigdor Lieberman and members of his party who question left-wing organizations’ [...]