We stayed in an apartment about 3 blocks from the beach - Becky and I went out last evening when the skies had temporarily cleared, walked down the promenade to the yacht harbor where we got DUMPED on - we could have been drowned rats except for Goretex.
I have now added the eastern Mediterranean to the list of "Seas Experienced by Tom's Toes".
If anyone has ever lived in Pacifica or near the coast you'll know how destructive and corrosive the lovely sea air can be - and Tel Aviv is not immune. There's all sorts of decay in our neighborhood with some repairs going on and most places not
And although Tel Aviv is extremely modern with WiFi and other electronic connectivity, lots of their infrastructure is just pasted onto existing building exteriors without much thought of integration. There's just a lot of pasta attached to walls. When they make me King there's going to be a lot of changes around here.
Ellyn's Family! - we got to visit with a batch of Ellyn's Israeli cousins yesterday - to review family legacies, family trees, etc. Ellyn thinks she has made some progress understanding several generations of cousins, aunts, Grannies, etc. - just like Simpson's wondering about that Uncle John from Detroit who no one knows the whereabouts of. In addition to the perpetually unfolding family tree that Ellyn is looking at with her Great Aunt Mimi and cousin Dahn we had a FEAST for brunch for the 20 members of the lucky gang. And the family tree that Dahn had researched and created? It is 50' long............We meet some more branches of the family next week in Jersualem and experience Friday Night - REAL Friday night in Israel.
And my favorite. part of our stroll through the Souk? pomegranites and the way they were displayed. Now that's marketing
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