Shalom,
Today we met many Israelis. This morning we went to the weekly meeting of the English Speakers Club of Ashdod held at Cafe Hillel in the City Mall. We were welcomed and included and we’ll go back next Friday. …
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A fun day in Jaffa
Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Diaspora
Shalom
In about 30 minutes we’re walking across the dock to have dinner on the boat of our friend Eve. She is making falafel for us. It was on Eve’s boat that we had Chinese food and blintz wrapped egg-rolls for Passover. Tomorrow we&…
Visiting some Israeli Military Museums
May 31, 2012
Ashdod Marina
Israel
Shalom from Ashdod,
Yesterday we rolled our way to Ashdod, as in roll to the port side then roll to the starboard side, then roll to the port side, then starboard, then port, then starboard from when we le…
another passage completed
Wednesday 23 May we motored the Oswego Canal and it’s locks from Brewerton to the town of Oswego on the south shore of Lake Ontario. (Continued…)
Jericho and Bethlehem
Shalom,
We have been in Israel almost a month and my expertise on the Israeli-Palistinian question is less than zero. I say less than zero because I really know nothing but have a bias towards Israel. Add to that the fact that I was …
The lighter side of Jerusalem
Shalom,
I just finished cooking our dinner for tonight, kugel to celebrate Shavouot. Instead of a sweet kugel I sauteed onions, red peppers and some winter squash and mixed that in with the cottage cheese, white creamy Israeli cheese and 4 …
My Jerusalem
Shalom and Happy Shavuot (Saturday night through Sunday evening)
We had some Israeli visitors yesterday. DoraMac attracts anyone who knows anything about boats. I was working on this email about our visits to Jerusalem, and I told them that it has been…
Me an' Sal on the Erie Canal
At some point during my mis-spent youth, I learned a folk song about a mule skinner and his mule Sal working the tow path on the Erie Canal, and here I am. Haven’t spotted Sal, but I’m keeping my eyes peeled. “the 363-mile Erie Canal …was one of the …
Up Hudson River to the Locks
Thursday 17 May, brother Tom dropped me off in Newark, near the train station and I made my way via PATH and Amtrak, back to Croton-on-Hudson. Jubilee was not at the dock, as Dean and John (who met us when we came in) had taken the boat up-river a s…
Petra Final Email!
Shalom,
Randal has spent the afternoon cooking up a storm. He’s making falafel, Randal version and salmon egg baskets that he learned in a cooking class in Thailand 12 years ago. I’m staying out of the galley! This …
