Tonight marks the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday, and tomorrow will be the first day of the year 5780 in the Hebrew calendar. This means that for the next few days…
This was meant to be a piece about the Eurovision final. And in a way, it still is. Although in life, as in writing, you never know what fate has in store for you, and…
In the blink of an eye, another year has gone by, marking my seventh full year of writing this blog. Another year of being able to indulge my love of writing, whether about travel, food,…
I hadn’t planned on another post so soon. But the news these past few days has, once more, cast the tiny nation of Israel front and center on the world stage, so I just can’t…
In my last blog post I wrote about arriving in Jordan, where I promptly proceeded to romp around in the desert. Although it was a lot less like the Lawrence of Arabia experience I’d anticipated,…
A taxi dropped us off a few minutes before midday at the Yitzchak Rabin border crossing, just to the north of Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city. There we joined a long queue waiting to have…
Question: how do you explain the Middle East conflict to kids? This past week I have been visiting Israel with my children. It is their first visit to the country of my birth, so we…
I woke this morning to the incredibly sad news of the passing of Shimon Peres, one of Israel’s founding fathers. By any measure he was an extraordinary and gifted man, and one who I was…
Warning: Another blog post that is not about travel, but unashamedly about American politics (kind of). *** An exceedingly funny friend of mine from high-school days in Australia, who now lives near New York,…
A few months ago I visited Morocco. I had two weeks to fill in between finishing one job in London and starting another job in the Bahamas. It was my third trip to Morocco, which…
