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Greece – Day 11-14 : Santorini (On The Rocks Hotel)

Posted on July 10, 2008 by jamesrub

We broke the Santorini trip up into 2 parts. The first we stayed at the On The Rock Hotel in Imerovigli. My best friends from London (Shereen and Marvin (one of my groomsmen)) met us and we had a really … Continue reading →

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Greece – Day 10 : Athens

Posted on July 7, 2008 by jamesrub

Well not to make this trip too relaxing today we left Tel Aviv, flew into Athens, took a cab into Athens to see the sites, took the train back to the airport and caught our last flight to Santorini. While … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 9 : Tel Aviv

Posted on July 6, 2008 by jamesrub

After Masada we made the trip back thru the West Bank to Tel Aviv. Liz is this our right? In Tel Aviv we caught up Liz’s cousins Cynthia and Moshe Cohen who in addition to taking us to lunch introduced … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 8 : Masada

Posted on July 5, 2008 by jamesrub

Well we woke up at 4 in the morning (that’s AM) to hike up Masada. We took the Snake Path up. It was pretty brutal and the second most challenging hike that we did. (A lot of that has to … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 7 : Ein Gedi

Posted on July 4, 2008 by jamesrub

Happy Independance Day! Although Liz begged me not to and Liz’s father told her not to, I convinced Liz to travel past Ramalah thru the West Bank. I mean Steven said it was OK and so did the very nice … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 5/6 : Jerusalem

Posted on July 3, 2008 by jamesrub

7/2/08 We started our tour of Jerusalem with Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Museum).   This was a last-minute change from our original plan, but it worked in our favor as otherwise we would have been right in the path of the … Continue reading →

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Israel – SideNote : Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Tel Aviv

Posted on July 2, 2008 by jamesrub

Wow, the next days of our trip in Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and Tel Aviv were amazing, spiritual, overwhelming and unfortunately incredibly painful. At this point, my mouth was in a considerable amount of pain. After a number of phone … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 4 : Yehudiya Nature Reserve/Galilee

Posted on July 1, 2008 by jamesrub

Arguably the most challenging hike we would do let me give you an excerpt from our guide book. ‘a challenging trail designed for competent hikers and swimmers and definitely not for those with vertigo (like Liz)…Slightly further on you’ll reach … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 3 : Banias Falls/Metula

Posted on June 30, 2008 by jamesrub

We got an early start the next day for our first of three major hikes in Israel, Banias Falls. By all accounts it was the easiest of the three we would do and took us a fraction of the time … Continue reading →

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Israel – Day 2 : Akko, Rosh Hanikra, Tsfat

Posted on June 29, 2008 by jamesrub

Early start Saturday morning… We had to get thru the fort city of Acre (Akko), the grotto at Rosh Hanikra, the ‘mystic’ city of Tsfat before finally getting to El Hagoshrim Kibbutz were we get to spend 2 nights. Akko … Continue reading →

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