Trip To Israel 2014

Hello my duckies,

As you may or may not know my entire family comes from Israel, so it's become kind of a tradition for my germany-based family to visit there every year around New Year's. This year was no exception and I thought I could share my little adventures with you, so keep on reading if you're interested!

Most of my family lives in or around Tel Aviv, a city that might seem chaotic and a tiny bit ugly to new eyes, but which in reality is full of heart and culture and really is quite pretty in a run-down, trash-chique-y kinda way. Also the ocean is pretty no matter the city! it rhymes

I see my family so rarely, which means getting to spend time with them is always extremely important to me. Oh, and some of them own cats, which just makes this a thousand times more exciting...
 

 While in Israel I always like travelling around the country. It is so incredibly small and yet so diverse. For example the Negev desert - prettiest place on earth. We took a tiny little hike to a canyon, incredibly beautiful!

Look at the capricorns just casually crossing the road - and yes that black line going up the mountain is all people, we clearly didn't pick the right day to enjoy the serenity and solitude of the mountains...

While the desert is in the Middle/South of Israel, the greener parts are in the North. It's also a very agricultural and rural part, where you can expect a herd of goats to cross the road at any time. Goats are so awesome.

We visited a little village called Bethlehem Galilee (not 'the' bethlehem, though some claim this bethlehem might actually have been jesus' birth place), which was very serene except for the very angry dogs. Went to several druze villages and ate pita with labneh, a sour cheese that i adore. And ended up in Haifa, where my father is from and Christmas was celebrated with lots of shiny lights.

I know this was kinda short, but I didn't want to bore you with too many explanations.

If you like these kind of posts or if you'd prefer me doing it differently next time, I'd really love to know!

See you very soon, Cheers!

Jill x

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90's Nostalgia

For me the 90's are a very mysterious time. I was born in them, but I remember next to nothing from them. Nothing special happened. There was no real movement, no real clothing style, no real direction, really. And yet when I think of the 90's, I think of a much simpler time. No smartphones, so you didn't have to be available ALL THE TIME. Not many computers and oh Internet??, so you had more time for other things, like actually reading a book for once. No digital cameras, every shot was important and you would put it into an album and lovingly write something under it and then it would be there for eternity. Everything was much slower and much more important.

Why London, Why

Why London, why have you stolen my heart? I mean, it's really not fair. It's like every city since you just doesn't do it for me anymore. No one is as beautiful and as cruel as you. No one has the ability to suck you in, chew you up, and then spit you out at the most random places. No one can tell stories and sing songs the way you do. No one is as classy and as trashy as you. No one.

Oh why must you be so freakin expensive you little annoying fabulous smudge on the map.

Anyway, I haven't been to London in a year, and that's what happens to my brain, here have some pictures everyone:

 

All of the pictures are mine & there might be more coming.

Questions for you:
Have you been to London? What was your impression of it?
What's your favourite city & why?
Are you currently on a sugar high? yes i am, thank you for asking

Goodbye now, duckies, goodbye!

I Should Work At A Travel Agency (or some pictures of places I've been)

I really love taking pictures, but I find that I'm so much more inspired to take them when I'm on vacation (which makes sense, but it's still sad). So here are some of the ones I've posted on my photography tumblr and/or deviantart (with some explanations because yeah i'm here to bore everyone instead of just doing my portfolio for uni...)