Late Summer Vacation III

August 25, 2006 - 4:57 PM by Sarah

David Bogner took a break from blogging last week to take his family to Hurshat Tal National Park in the Galilee.

hurshat tal

On the way there, they stopped at one of David’s favorite dining spots, a place in the Jordan Valley, which looks on the outside to be a typical “dive” found off so many American highways, but in actuality is, according to David, a culinary treat:

Zehavas

Falafel Zehava (which is run by two sisters, the younger of whom is named [surprise] Zehava) also has exquisite shwarma, world class shakshuka, and spiced meatballs in a tomato sauce that would make an Italian weep for joy. But the highlight of a visit to this place is the incredibly fresh, perfectly crisp/moist falafel. All of these treats are served with a welcoming intimacy that makes one forget literally hundreds of travelers step in out of the 100+ degree (F) heat to enjoy their food every single day. We also stopped there on the way back, and the sisters not only remembered us but asked after some of our friends who had stopped in to eat on our recommendation.

They did a lot of hiking, and then went to a water park in Tiberias.

yonah swimming
More pictures and details about their trip here.

War Reference:

I won’t go into it here (because it will take me off onto a political rant) but wherever we went during the week we saw burnt fields/forests, damaged houses and other evidence of the punishment from a month of rockets. But we also saw that life was returning to normal and most of the people who had left during the bombardment were back and picking up the pieces of their normal lives.

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