First guests in TLV

So last week our we had our first house guests here in tel aviv.  our friends Alana and Jin arrived from vancouver a week ago today.  they are staying with us here in tel aviv for a week, going to jerusalem, petra and eilat for 5 days, and then back with us for a final week. its interesting now that i have been here for 5 months, to tour someone around as your home.  they were very excited to stay with us, because you get…

Florence

So after two days in Italy, it was finally time to see stuff. leaving the villa i saw this road and liked it [flickr id=”8856282600″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] [flickr id=”8856285054″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] [flickr id=”8856287230″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] so we were headed to Florence.  it was about 1.5-2 hours away from us, to the north.  since we had two cars, we decided to meet at an overlook, and from there would go down into the city. [flickr id=”8855677549″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false”…

Cooking in Tuscany

Having rested the previous day, we woke up excited the next day to go to our cooking class that we had booked.  Noa, her sister and I were going, and it was advertised to be a whole day affair.  Noa found the class by googling online, and by the description we were sold. !!—Beware.  please eat before seeing this post. —!! So that morning, we took the car up to Cortona to meet in the square there in order to meet the group and our…