Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Weekend in Tel Aviv

We spent Memorial Day weekend in Tel Aviv with our friend Randy. The highlight was an English-language walking tour sponsored by the Tel Aviv Tourism Council on Bauhaus architecture. The tour was great and indeed you could clearly see the importance of two styles in Tel Aviv: "eclectic style" and "bauhaus or international style." We all preferred the eclectic style which was quite simply prettier with more art deco influences but we had all warmed somewhat to the charms of bauhaus by the end of the tour.




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ECLECTIC:


We also went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea which neither Dan nor I had done before. The water was warm (ish) and very clear especially considering that we were swimming in a city beach with a skyline of skyscrapers behind us. There was also very loud and profane music playing at a club along the beach which along with beachwear was a vivid reminder that we weren't in Jordan.

We went to the movies and we all would recommend Bank Job and not recommend Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones was a disappoinment - there was some great art direction in scenes set in Nevada and the ant special effects were good (although creepy since we have ants in our apartment) but somehow the alien things was too much for us. We all loved Bank Job and agreed this movie which included royal scandal would NEVER be shown in Jordan.

2 comments:

3XMom said...

we have ants too! Maybe we will wait on Indy til we can get it on Netflix. oh..too funny, last night I logged onto netflix and it thought I was you! I considered adding a bunch of girly teenage movies to the top of your queue, but decided to just log off. :(

Dan & Duffy said...

The last movie I watched was a girly movie - 27 dresses - it was better than I expected but not great.