The remainder of Thursday--May 11th
The remainder of Thursday--May 11th
After the cemetery, we made a little side-trip to Berman's Bakery--an institution in the city. Truly one of the wonders of the modern age is the smell of fresh baked bread and pastry. It should come as no surprise that we couldn't leave empty-handed from this icon to warm flavored dough. I thought we were very restrained in only taking 4 or 5 small danish (cheese, chocolate, cinnamon, plain, and poppyseed) with us for snacking on the way into the City Center. We headed to our room at the Prima Royale Hotel located at 3 Mendele Street and dropped off our bags. It was nearly lunchtime by now, and we headed to the nearby German Colony (appropriately named after the area was settled by immigrating Jews from Germany after WWII) and one of my favorite restaurants named Caffit on Emek Refaim St. Lunch consisted of an Oreganta Salad (cold lettuce and shaved cheese, crunchy tomatoes, olives, nuts, sunflower seeds, thin slivers of warm aubergines, olive oil, a little balsamic vinegar, and lots of ---you guessed it....oregano). DOUBLE YUM!!! I should have remembered the salads were huge and more than enough to share, but I got carried away and also ordered a vegetable pizza (not as good as I previously remembered it to be). We wound up taking some of both dishes back to the hotel to be put in the small refridgerator found in each room. Oh, I also got my first parking ticket in Israel--those signs in Hebrew can be a bit "challenging" and obviously I didn't read them carefully enough.
The rest of the afternoon was spent just driving and walking around Jerusalem so that Rae-ann could get a flavor for the city. In the evening, we went down to the pedestrian mall in the center of city on Ben-Yehuda St and did some more shopping (when will it end????). The area is a magnet for tourists and young students and is generally packed till late in the evening/early morning. We had dinner that evening at a dear friend's house, where Benita not only served up a delicious meal but also introduced us to some very interesting friends, who gave us some good suggestions for different places to go to on Shabbat for services.
After the cemetery, we made a little side-trip to Berman's Bakery--an institution in the city. Truly one of the wonders of the modern age is the smell of fresh baked bread and pastry. It should come as no surprise that we couldn't leave empty-handed from this icon to warm flavored dough. I thought we were very restrained in only taking 4 or 5 small danish (cheese, chocolate, cinnamon, plain, and poppyseed) with us for snacking on the way into the City Center. We headed to our room at the Prima Royale Hotel located at 3 Mendele Street and dropped off our bags. It was nearly lunchtime by now, and we headed to the nearby German Colony (appropriately named after the area was settled by immigrating Jews from Germany after WWII) and one of my favorite restaurants named Caffit on Emek Refaim St. Lunch consisted of an Oreganta Salad (cold lettuce and shaved cheese, crunchy tomatoes, olives, nuts, sunflower seeds, thin slivers of warm aubergines, olive oil, a little balsamic vinegar, and lots of ---you guessed it....oregano). DOUBLE YUM!!! I should have remembered the salads were huge and more than enough to share, but I got carried away and also ordered a vegetable pizza (not as good as I previously remembered it to be). We wound up taking some of both dishes back to the hotel to be put in the small refridgerator found in each room. Oh, I also got my first parking ticket in Israel--those signs in Hebrew can be a bit "challenging" and obviously I didn't read them carefully enough.
The rest of the afternoon was spent just driving and walking around Jerusalem so that Rae-ann could get a flavor for the city. In the evening, we went down to the pedestrian mall in the center of city on Ben-Yehuda St and did some more shopping (when will it end????). The area is a magnet for tourists and young students and is generally packed till late in the evening/early morning. We had dinner that evening at a dear friend's house, where Benita not only served up a delicious meal but also introduced us to some very interesting friends, who gave us some good suggestions for different places to go to on Shabbat for services.
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