Category: Travel and places
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Tragedy and Inspiration in Jerusalem
My friend visited me recently, and I took some time off to spend with him. One of our day trips was to Jerusalem, primarily to visit Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. We started off by taking a relatively new train to Jerusalem from the Ben Gurion Airport. This train takes about half an…
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Whale bones and shadows
We have a curious structure in one of our city parks that’s a little controversial. Some people really don’t like it, most aren’t sure what it’s supposed to represent. It appeals to me, although I can’t quite work out how to photograph it. I took advantage of a couple evening walks past the park to…
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Jewish pride at the new Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem
I took the new(ish) fast train to Jerusalem with my friend today. It was my first time on that train, and I really enjoyed the new Yitzhak Navon station. We arrived mid-morning, and was greeted by this Star of David Shadow caused by lines of Israeli flags in the open air atrium of the station:
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Southern Israel is under attack at the moment. This is what it looks like.
Southern Israel is under attack, again. Hamas and its allies have been firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli towns and cities for the last day or so. Imagine that you were in this situation: Image credit: Israel Defense Forces, licensed CC BY-NC 2.0
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My Lisbon experience
I’m in Lisbon for my team’s meetup (last year we were in Rome). Our first day was a free day, and we went on a walking tour of parts of Lisbon. It was a terrific introduction to this city. Of course, I made plenty of photos. We took the Metro to where we were going…
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Touring Mini Israel and exploring Israeli tanks
Last weekend we hired a car, and went out for much of the day on the Saturday. We opted for two local attractions: Mini Israel Park Latrun (a military tank museum) Mini Israel Mini Israel is pretty much what it sounds like. It’s a park with miniature versions of various Israeli cities, and attractions. I…
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Family trip to the Eretz Israel Museum
We had national elections in Israel this last Tuesday, 9 April. Elections days are public holidays in Israel, so we took advantage of the day off to have a family outing. We decided to head to the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. I had been to the museum a couple times with our kids,…
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Sidewalk mosaic
The city adorned a path leading up to a local community center with a series of mosaics. I took a walk out there this morning, and took photos of them. One of the concrete panels is blank, which is a little odd. Hopefully that will also be filled at some point.
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