Palestine Dropped from Our Itinaery

Free Time for Us 

Tel Aviv, Israel

Warm and Sunny, Hi 80's, Lo 60's

We completed our OAT (Overseas Adventure Travel) tour several days ago. We chose not to go on to Palestine/West Bank for reasons not discussed here. So, two extra days in Tel Aviv.....

So we're Exploring with Karen and Marti today

On the Agenda: Sarona Market and Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Sarona Market is Tel Avis's latest culinary center that rivals the new wave of food markets such as La Boqueria in Barcelona and Chelsea Market in NYC. The Sarona Market is about culinary excellence, and has about 100 business that specialize in spices, cheeses, & meats from local and international markets. 

It is located on the eastern edge of Tel Aviv in a growing new "central business district" bordering the Sarona complex. Originally at the site was a German Templar Colony established over 140 years ago. Thirty-three Templar buildings have been painstakingly restored and today house boutique stores, galleries, quaint cafes and some of the hottest restaurant/bars around.

Restored German Templar Building

Playground In Sarona Templar Complex

To the Sarona Market for Food

Coffee and Pastries

Time to Shop

The Cupcake Bar - small like mini-muffins

Our only purchase in the market was coarse salt!

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Has an international collection of classic & contemporary art, especially Israeli art, and a sculpture garden.

Modern exterior

Sculpture Garden

A work of art inside, too

The Museum had three-legged fold up seats with an umbrella handle for free use. I am a believer in this stool now. I parked myself and my stool a respectable distance from whatever caught my fancy and meditated on the beauty of the thing. No standing, no shouldering my heavy bag, just me and the art! The world walked around  me as I contemplated.

 I thought this woman had a kind face, loved people and  liked having fun... Also she had a sense of humor

Portrait of Madame de Vicq, 1623

Peter Paul Rubens

Madame de Vicq was born Hippolyte van Male. She married the ambassador of Flanders to the court of King Louis XIII in France. In the background is a red damask curtain, painted in semi-transparent coasts of paint with relatively free brushstrokes.

Sir John Chardin Musgrave, BT,

 painted by John Hoppner

Jews Praying in the Synagogue on the Day of Atonement, 1878

Painter Maurycy Gottlieb

1856-1879, Poland

Gottlieb has painted himself into this painting - he is leaning on one elbow and looking out at the viewer. Maurycy (Moses) was a Jewish painter living in a part of Poland that is now western Ukraine. He was one of eleven children. Gottlieb was considered one of Jan Matejko's most talented students. He died at age 23. More than 300 of his works survive.

Little pieces of art

These exquisitely decorated rooms are miniatures! (Note the size of the brass nameplates at the front of the rooms.) Aren't they amazing!

 Mid-Victorian

 Biermeyer

Gay Nineties