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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
My son suggests wandering Jaffa and hitting the beach (not in jaffa, the main beach)
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Mezze in Jaffa is extraordinary, including the breakfast shakshuka of which Hank speaks. Arabic cuisine on Israeli budgets. I don't remember where we went, unfortunately, but our local friends filled the belly and it was happy. If given an option, skip Israeli wines and get Palestinian or Lebanese ones, though I think you may have trouble getting the choice if you're in Israel proper.
Report from China and Thailand travels: Thailand was a sad country, filled with extremes of wealth and poverty and an extraordinary number of dissipated obnoxious westerners looking to take advantage. the highlight of the trip was likely a dinner we had in a little pavilion on the river next to the royal villa - the main palace was taken over by the government 50 years ago but this villa and a few others remain in the families' hands. It was right smack in the middle of much of the history of the city, and we got a very detailed set of stories of the last three hundred and fifty years in that spot. Shanghai was extraordinary; I may have an big deal there next year, and I'm going to plot to try to spend more extended time there then.
