Connie and Walter; Levinsky, Neve Tzedek

No sooner do we get home from our trip to the north, we are getting ready to visit with our close friends- Connie and Walter.  Connie is my oldest friend from high school days in Detroit. She and Walter live in Seattle where she is a graphic artist for Starbucks and Walter teaches music.  Both are also musicians.  They have joined a group touring from Temple De Hirsch Sinai and the Rabbi Danny Wiener with whom they are very close and play routinely in the temple music group.  Their first couple of days are in Tel Aviv- and we will meet up with them for dinner.  We expect to see them again when they go to Masada and the Dead Sea- we will join them at the Sea.  We plan to float together there. 

In the meantime, they are touring outside the city for the morning.  We are relaxing.  We head over to the antique show at Dizengoff Center and drink fruit smoothies. 

The smoothie stations are ubiquitous in Tel Aviv- literally on every street.  And- the fruit is fresh; juiced and blended in front of you. 

 

 





And then it is time to meet up with Connie and Walter.  We wander with them to our favorite market at Levinksy.  We take them to buy nuts and dried fruit, stop in a the bakery where Connie buys a piece of halvah (which comes in 10 different flavors), and then wander through the small streets toward Neve Tzedek.  There we chance upon restaurant Nana- a recommendation from Corinne.  We go in and are delighted.  This is a long time restaurant in the area and our dinner was delicious.





 

 

 

Connie and Walter are heading to the desert for a couple of days. Then they go on to Jerusalem; we will meet up with them at the Dead Sea and float- wishing out the year and wishing in the new.  A great joy to be with them here in Israel.  These days are so full.