last night!

tonight i'm going out with a new friend i met at the lesbian bar called minerva a couple nights ago. then our tour guide from last week invited me over to her house tomorrow for lunch. she's very nice, she's going to pick me up in tel aviv (she lives in a suburb). i would take the bus, but it's shabbat and the busses don't run. even in tel aviv, where most people will be partying on friday night and hung over on saturday morning instead of praying. so, i just packed my bags, while drinking a nice israeli red wine (screw top), and i guess i'm going to take my disco nap now. i learned the term disco nap from gay russel the tour organizer, who i'm pretty sure really did go to the disco after taking his nap. i'm nurturing a growing affection for disco music.

why i am hanging on the beach and avoiding cultural things

this is cesarea. we were all cranky after all the touring we did, and tired. it's beautiful isn't it? looked like more old rocks to us.
we had to watch an animated video before entering, like kids on a school outing.













so by the time we got to tel aviv, no one wanted to do anything cultural or otherwise, and we went to a place with no hebrew menu and ordered burgers.

ummm...

i don't have anything interesting to say, i'm wiped out. i apologize for the lameness of this blog this trip around.

howard (one of my trip mates who stayed longer here) bought me dinner tonight, it was v sweet of him.

tel avivis

i've had some trouble getting internet access travelling with a tour group. there are lots of internet cafes but we are travelling in luxe style and internet at these hotels is super expensive. the group just dispersed, so now i'm back in hobo-land. moving from this amazing hotel to a dorm room. but i'll have more freedom, and more rest. i've been exhausted from the touring pace.

today my plan is to go to the beach and relax. shit, i forgot the whole point of going to the internet cafe is i need to sign up for a hostel. i'm going to do that now. btw, i found a lovely place from the guidebook in jaffa, but one of the guides said he wouldn't be comfortable staying there. he said, well, i guess you survived two days in the muslim quarter, and i wouldn't be comfortable staying there either. both places are tourist central, what do they think is going to happen? death by association/osmosis with muslims? israelis are smart, but rational... not so much. i think that applies to the region in general.