Foto Friday – Footprints

July 31, 2009 - 11:30 PM by Rachel Neiman · 5 Comments
Filed under: Foto Friday, General, Pop Culture, Travel

Sometimes it’s good to take a moment and see Israel from a different vantage point. In summer if you look down, for instance, you’re very likely to see “balatot” — the ubiquitous light limestone floor tile — plus a variety of fun footwear that takes you from work to the beach and back again.

A trip to the Dead Sea affords another type of shoe, suited to mud baths and salt water.

Which is different to what you’d wear to snap some sidewalk graffiti while walking up and down Rothschild Boulevard at Tel Aviv’s Laila Lavan all-night street fair. (This takeoff on the Peace Now logo says “Shalit Now” in reference to captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit).

And sometimes a girl needs to take a rest from those heels at a sidewalk pub (note the Ackerstein paving blocks so typical of Tel Aviv).

A little culture never hurt.

Though these shoes might — especially the price. (Three thousand-plus shekels!)

Thank goodness, at the end of the day, there’s a place to relax on the edge of the Med.

PR woman Efrat Gurman is a consummate media professional who’s made a career out of positioning things differently. She’s a colleague and friend to photographers and in her few spare moments, snaps pictures of her own, mostly of of things that interest her – or that she makes interesting. For more of her “Footprints” series click here.

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