Farewell Supratik

Last night we had a barbecue party at my place for Supratik's farewell. His relocation ends this week and he's flying back to India. He enjoyed the beer and entrecote quite a bit:


Omer was relaxed as he didn't have to drive (temporary loss of license that we were kind of celebrating as well):


And Anton was having fun:


The rest of the pictures here.

Apollonia - Arsuf

Last weekend we ended up being a little bit late for our plan to visit the Tel Aviv museum of modern art, after our stop at a book shop. We ended up picking the map and loking for any nearby national park and ended up in Apollonia. We really enjoyed the visit of this costal park situated just north of Herzelia. You can read a bit more about the place here in english, or in french.

The weather was at its best, warm but not too much thanks to some clouds and a fall breeze that sailboats coming from Herzelia's marina were clearly enjoying. We liked the fortress but I mostly ended up taking pictures of the seascape as you can see:




And this has to be my first sunset picture that looks the best in B&W


After the visit of the park we headed to Herzelia's marina to finish the day, had a beer, visited the mall and had an early sushi dinner with a view on the port.

More pics at the usual place.

Danse shows

For M's birthday I took her to Tel Aviv's Opera to see a dance show featuring the Cedar Lake contemporary ballet. We both liked it very much, me for my first experience with a dance show and M because she used to go see these a lot and it had been a while.

This weekend we did it again, the Bat Sheva company was giving a show at the Suzanne Dellal center for dance and theater (in Neve Tzedek, the old city of Tel-Aviv). Before going there we spent the end of the afternoon having a nice walk around the old city of Jaffa, and finished by a fantastic dinner in a wine bar (Yo'ezer wine bar). We had delicious french style food with fine by-the-glass wines which allowed us to taste quite some variety. I found this place the best restaurant we have eaten at in Israel to date (and we've tried quite a lot of fine places), and some other seem to agree with me (D.R. put it on top of his casual dining experience). We had a great day, but no pictures for you yet because I need to finish the slides roll and develop it...

Regate in Haifa ?

Last weekend I spotted strange white spots all over the sea, I still don't know where all these boats were sailing to but It made for a nice picture :).