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| Taking a break in Ohel Moshe |
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| Ohel Moshe Common Area |
Jerusalem is a great walking city and some of the nicest neighborhoods have no automobile traffic. Today Michelle and I took a walk around one of these, Ohel Moshe, just south of the famous Jerusalem
shuk. It is among one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem outside of the Old City. Narrow streets, quiet with no traffic, beautiful common areas and a great combination of orthodox and hippy residents. And just a two minute walk from the Shuk where you can buy virtually any kind of food plus clothing, hardware, kitchenware, etc.
Israel is rightly famous for its olives so we went olive picking a few days ago in a public park, Ya'Ar Ha-Shalom, about a 5 minute drive from our house. We are now in the soaking phase (pre-pickling) - we will let you know how they come out.
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| Olive Picking |
And lest you think that it is all fun and games here, we still have a house to clean - the term is 'sponga' for the cogniscenti of cleaning a floor in Israel. (Of course this duty falls to the man of the house, although Toby has been pretty good about doing his room).
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| The tools of the sponga trade |
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