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The beginning of a very busy week
Sunday afternoon we received an email from a local guide, archeologist and big Israel lover whom we had contacted early on about a tour of Tel Aviv. She did not respond to our initial email but instead had Moshe Frank contact us and he gave us our initial tour of TLV. Apparently Dorit had heard […]
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A great weekend
When you retire, weekends tend to take on less significance as every day is like a weekend but in Israel weekends are a little different as many businesses will close early on Friday afternoon in preparation for Shabbat which runs from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday. Even though Tel Aviv is a largely […]
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Our down day
Weather today, Thursday 26 January, is predicted to be very rainy, calm in the morning with increasing wind throughout the day. We awoke to thunder and rain. Well they were right about the rain, it was torrential. There was also a lot of lightning and window shaking thunder. Our street was turned into a river. […]
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Calm between storms
We had four days of good weather between our Shabat tour and the next set of stormy days. We took two runs along the Yarkon river stopping at the Daniels Rowing Center both times, first to check on what they had available and the second time to sign up for our first sculling lesson. On […]
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Tel Aviv Tour
Shabat, 20 January, we are picked up at 9:00 by a tour guide Moshe Frank. We started in our neighborhood of Old North Tel Aviv and drove to the New North, a community of many modern mid-rise apartment buildings as well as the University of Tel Aviv and many museums. We then headed south to […]
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Out & about in Tel Aviv
First destination, just like in NYC is to get our senior public transportation passes, a Rav Kav card with our picture and a smart chip. We walked to the service office and getting the card was fast and efficient, much better than NYC or SF. We were then heading for Sarona Market when Jim recognized […]
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First full day in TLV
Jim was first up this morning and was greeted by two bright green parrots perched on our balcony railing. Unfortunately they were camera shy and flew away immediately. Our first full day was mostly spent doing what Sandy refers to as “nesting”, in other words making the condo feel more homey and user friendly for […]
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Moving on to Tel Aviv
On Saturday evening January 12 our daughter Jennifer drove us to Logan where we zipped through check-in and security and went immediately to the Business Class lounge to watch the Patriots playoff game. While awaiting our flight we ran into a Lahey Colleague, Ophthalmologist Paul Cotran, who was on our flight to Istanbul but then […]
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Last two weeks in NYC & Boston
So we are struggling with this new format of a real blog and we have been busy with life and connecting with friends, both in New York City and back in Boston. We are also in the process of posting old emails on the blog. So far we have posted the first two days of […]
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Happy New Year, 2018
We started off 2018 in Central Park New York City running the four mile midnight run. It is the coldest New Years ever since 1917. It was 10 degrees at the start with a real feel of -4. This has been on Sandy’s bucket list for many years and not even a century old record […]
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March 13, 2016, first day of Sandy’s retirement.
So Peggy dropped us off at the Air France departure area of terminal 4 at Logan and there was no flight leaving from there. We had to walk across to the other side of the airport to Delta at terminal 1 as we had booked an Air France flight which was run by Delta. Waited […]
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Another week of our life
So we are into our fourth week of living on the upper west side of New York City and just loving it. We took the free Staten Island Ferry to the island to actually see it for a change rather than to run away from it as we have done in the past while participating […]
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Trying to create our first Blog
As some of you know we have been sending out our travel emails to family & friends since March of 2016 when Sandy retired. Many people have suggested that we create an actual blog so that followers can choose to view our travel summaries, or NOT. We have also had numerous people suggest that there […]
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Second day of Sandy’s retirement. March 14, 2016
Weather is cloudy, windy and 42 degrees. We started the day with a three mile run where we covered Ile Saint Louis and Ile de Citè tip to tip. Running by Notre Dame and along the Seine. After a quick market trip after the run for provisions we returned to our VRBO to shower and […]