Israel - Tel Aviv & Herzliya

My final post on Israel.  I know, there were a lot of posts (probably too many).  But, so many pictures and so many stories........

 

So we'll wrap this up with a few days on the beach, in Herzliya, and a day in Tel Aviv.  By this point in the trip, we were "toured out".  No more history, no more guides, no more facts.  I just wanted to relax, walk on the beach, and chill.

 

Here's the view from our hotel.  Herzliya is a nice, smaller town around 10 km north of Tel Aviv. 

 

 

Herzliya had a great marina, with lots of restaurants and bars.  And boats!

We had mostly great weather. 

 

And peaceful sunsets

 

An old mosque that we discovered during a morning beach walk.....

 

The one colder, rainy day...... benefit is that you have the beach all to yourself

And you can look like a drowned rat!

 

Sleeping kitty.....

A not-so-happy kitty who was rudely woken up by the waitress

 More kitties on the rocks.....

 

Me on the pier

 

Ditto for Pat

 And finally, Tel Aviv.  Like I said, we were not interested in doing any touring by this point.  Except to find lunch, a beer, and the market.  So that's what we did.....

 

Goldstar Lager - not bad!

 

The Carmel Market.  CRAZY busy on Friday morning before Shabbat.  Everybody was stocking up for the weekend meals

 

Great olive bar......  Although the neon pink pickled vegetables are a bit much, even for me :)

Honey-soaked pastries

I loved all of the bread in Israel.  "Bread is the staff of life"

The meat, not so great looking. 

Luckily, I could be a vegetarian fulltime.  Especially with this kind of produce....

That's all.  Thank you Israel for a wonderful time!  My posts will be moving back East....................