We took a last early morning walk in Haifa before leaving for Tel Aviv. We saw a restaurant that we could pronounce the Hebrew letters as well as the English.
We had initially planned to go back to Jerusalem after Haifa, but decided to change our plans and spend 2 days in Tel Aviv. We hope to meet some more relatives tomorrow, on Thursday, in Tel Aviv.
We are now in Israel’s largest city Tel Aviv. We took a bus from Haifa and it took about 1 hour and 30 minutes to get to Tel Aviv. The Dan Panorama hotel in Tel Aviv is the biggest of the hotels that we stayed at in Israel and is located near the beach. We feel like we are on the Israeli Riviera and not in a big city. People are sunning themselves on the beach and in the hotel swimming pools. We are wearing sunblock and walking in the shade to avoid the sun on this 85 degree day with a cool sea breeze occasionally coming off the Mediterranean Sea.
I found a store in Tel Aviv that provided Internet services and got the blog updated. The Internet service at the hotel in Haifa had some problems and I did not find a store with Internet service, so I was a day late in getting the blog updated. Jackie got her hair washed at a beauty parlor while I was getting the blog updated.
Later we walked south to the beach area called Jaffa. It is an area with beaches and small shops and restaurants that look like a resort area in many of the US beaches, without the boardwalk. There were streets with small rug merchants. We also planned to have dinner in Jaffe, but most of the restaurants were of the type to take out sandwiches to take to the beach or small restaurants that did not look nice enough for dinner. As we walked back towards the hotel we found a very nice sea food restaurant right on the beach, Manta Ray. The food was very good and we got to sit outside and watch the sunset over the Mediterranean Sea. We thought of the sun, now directly over the United States, where it is 7-10 hours earlier or about 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
We also could see many new large buildings being constructed in Tel Aviv to the East of us and away from the beaches. It seems that Tel Aviv is still rapidly growing. We were told that the world-wide recession has not affected Israel and there is still construction and property prices are increasing.
We are seeing far less security and troops in Haifa and Tel Aviv than we did in Jerusalem. We did have to go trough metal detectors and have our baggage searched at the bus station and at museums. We did see soldiers get on and off the bus at bus stops on our trip from Haifa to Tel Aviv, but we do not see soldiers at major street intersections or on the streets as we did in Jerusalem.
We have one more day in Tel Aviv and then we go on to Budapest.
The Dan Panorama hotel in Tel Aviv is the biggest of the hotels that we stayed at in 
It is an area with beaches and small shops and restaurants that look like a resort area in many of the 
The food was very good and we got to sit outside and watch the sunset over the 
Tel Aviv to the East of us and away from the beaches. It seems that Tel Aviv is still rapidly growing. We were told that the world-wide recession has not affected 
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