Spring Break 2015!

For spring break this year, my boyfriend and I went to Tel Aviv (and we also traveled around a bit)! I have been there once before, spring break two years ago, and I love it there so much! I love the mixes of different people and cultures, and how it is a perfect blend of western and middle-eastern. And the food... Oh my..! The food is amazing! They have the most amazing markets with fresh, vibrant, amazing, locally grown fruits and vegetables, nuts, spices and every other possible amazing food item you can imagine (I bought 2kg(!) of medjool dates, among other things, to bring home!!). I am literally in heaven when I am at one of those markets! And the meals they prepare are divine too! Falafels, the most amazing hummus ever, incredible salads, homemade lemonades, shakshuka, and the list goes on and on! They have the most amazing shawarma too, but as I am not eating meat anymore, I didn't get to enjoy one this time around..

I mentioned in my last post that I am not the biggest history person, but you can't help but be interested in the history of this place! I'm pretty sure it's the area with the most densely packed history in the world (don't quote me on that, but I can't be far off..). Imagine walking on the same paths as Jesus, or the romans, or Moses or Abraham and probably a million other important people that I can't think of right now. It is so cool! 

We did more historical things the last time we went (you can read about that here), and this time we mostly enjoyed ourselves and relaxed, but definitely with a hint of exploring, history and adventure as well!

As you could probably tell, the market was definitely one of my favorite things about the trip, and if I had to choose I think going to Yafo (or Jaffa) was my other favorite. Yafo is the old town of Tel Aviv, and I really loved it there. It's older (obviously) and so pretty with narrow streets and light brick buildings! They also have an entire area where all the streets were named after the different zodiac signs, which I thought was so neat. It is definitely a place I want to go back to. 

Another thing I loved was experiencing passover there again, and of course catching up with everyone from last time.

We definitely had the most amazing time! It is one of my favorite places, and I can't wait to go back!

Chilling under a carob tree! How cool is that, they just grow randomly everywhere!

Visiting some huge natural caves

The Tel Aviv Skyline!

In Yafo! How pretty are those streets?!

The street of Pisces (my zodiac sign)

Yafo

I also posted a travel diary on my youtube channel if you want to check it out and see what we did day to day:

Spring Break ❤ Pictures and a Haul

Hi everyone! I am now back from spring break and I just wanted to share a few pictures from my trip with you! I also made a haul of some things that I bought while I was away, so I will put that in this post as well. I am still not actually home in my apartment yet, but I am going home this weekend. When I get back, I hope to finally get back into a schedule with school, assignments, work, blogging, youtube and all that stuff. For the past couple of weeks I have been traveling and stuff, so any schedule has just not really been present at all. 

Anyways. For those of you that don't know, I went to Israel with my boyfriend and his family. We went for a week and stayed mostly in Tel Aviv. As it was my first time there we did a lot of sightseeing to the most famous places, the ones that you kind of have to see while you are there. For trips, we went one day south to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem and one day north to the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights. We also went to see and old roman town called Caesarea one of the days.

Me, my boyfriend and his cousin

In front of the Dead Sea

Floating in the Dead Sea

Eating falaffel

Me and my bf's cousin

In Caesarea

A fig leaf and a Hamsa card

Sushiiii :)

In Caesarea

At a market in Jerusalem

More from the market

Sunset in Tel Aviv

In front of the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) and Dome of the Rock.

View of Jerusalem

By the Sea of Galilee

An olive tree....

At the Golan heights

That's it. Sorry that a lot of these pictures are of just me, but I didn't want to put up a ton of pictures of other people without asking their permission and stuff like that :) I hope you enjoyed watching this anyways and please tell me if you did anything fun for your spring break. Or if you haven't had your yet, what are you planning to do? :)