20180528 Tel Aviv: Long and wonderful day with Yael. Spellers awakened early and had breakfast before I did. Wow … huge amounts of all sorts of foods (no meats) all around a very large dining area that would accommodate bus loads.
Met Yael out front at 9:00 and headed to the Palmach Museum for an hour’s long interactive experience moving from room to room learning about the Palmach and fight for independence. Engaging and you learn quite a bit. I visited the photo gallery there which has over a hundred photo albums of images taken by members of the Palmach. And old Palmach men hang out there and tell their stories. One wanted to trade hats with me.
Anna was exhausted from our flight over and Tracy and she were dropped off at the hotel where Anna rested most of the day. Yael drove Andy, Marian, and me to the old city of Yafo for a long walking tour there from the port, through the artists’ area, to the top of the hill, and down to the lower part for a fabulous and way-too-large shwarama lunch around 2:00. We saw The Gate of Faith, Ramses II Gate Garden, St. Peter’s Church, among other places.
From there, we went to the area of the first Jewish settlement (Neve Tsedek) and then to the area that was where Tel Aviv was founded. Saw the Nahum Gutman mural depicting how Tel Aviv emerged. Then went up Rothschild Avenue to the Independence Hall which had been the house of the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff. Finally a stop for ice coffee (like a granita) at Aroma coffee and then back to hotel around 4:30 for a rest before dinner.
About 7:30 Tracy, Marian, and I walked over to the Neve Tsedek district and walked to a restaurant Yael had recommended earlier – Suzana, where we had a nice dinner accompanied by cats looking for handouts (which we did not give). Then up the street to meet Anna and Andy for gelato at Anita. Yum. Back to the hotel for the night.
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