Early morning in the ancient city of Jaffa and the streets are coming to back to life; the smell of freshly baked bread, car horns bleating from impatient drivers going to work, the sound of shop shutters being raised, a faint chant of a far off muezzin calling to prayer. This is the beating heart of old Jaffa and I love it.
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01/04/2014 .Carmel Caves added to UNESCO list
18/12/2013 .The Carmel Caves in northern Israel have been added to the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The caves have been added to the list for “providing a definitive chronological framework at key periods of human development.
Read the full story hereCarmel Forest Spa. Haifa
22/08/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Haifa, Hotel Reviews, Israel and tagged Best Israel Spas, Carmel Forest Spa Review, Carmel Hotels, Israel Spa Reviews on .Israel’s Carmel Forest Spa Resort, set in a national forest close to the country’s third city, Haifa, has taken on a challenge. It has set out to dispense relief to the stressed and demanding residents of one of the most dynamic nations on earth. But it has done so with relish since the late 1990’s to become the nation’s top wellness resort.
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15/06/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, Israel, The Negev and tagged French cheese, Guide to The Negev, Holidays in Israel, Israel, The Negev on .Leah Nahimov is a pioneer. She’s also something of a magician.Somehow, she and her husband Gadi have managed to create a little piece of France slap bang in the middle of the Negev Desert.
Read the full story hereRelaxing With Water Maidens in Eilat
15/06/2013This entry was posted in Eilat, Europe and Middle East, Israel and tagged Dolphin Reef, Eilat, Israel, Water massage on .Well this was a first. Lying on my back in the water with my eyes shut, listening to underwater music whilst being gently twirled around by a water therapist. This is relaxation Jim, but not as we know it.
it is instead, relaxing with water maidens in Eilat.
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15/06/2013This entry was posted in Eilat, Europe and Middle East, Israel and tagged Eilat, Israel, Swim with Dolphins on .‘That’s Dana’ said Andrew my diving buddy, pointing at the glorious streamlined body leaping fully out of the water to assembled gasps, ‘she’ll come over to say hello when we’re down there’. I truthfully had a moment, right there and then.
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