{"id":1402,"date":"2011-06-05T07:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:18","slug":"getting-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Getting around"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1404\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0005x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1404\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1404\" title=\"DSC_0005x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0005x-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0005x-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0005x.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John and Richard overlooking the Sea of Galilee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last weekend we made an encore trip to the Golan Heights and the Galilee area with our friend Richard. We stopped for a Middle Eastern lunch at the south tip of the Sea of Galilee, then stopped at\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau Golan winery for a tour. Then we headed to Vered Hagalil, our favorite cabins overlooking the lake. We enjoyed the view and had a nice dinner before setting out the next morning. Richard introduced us to a little chocolate factory, De Karina, in a village near the Syrianborder, where he had visited on his last trip to Israel. After tasting chocolate and taking a tour, we walked to Pelter Winery and sampled some of their wines. We spent the \u00a0rest of the day visiting other wineries: Galil Mountain, Dalton, and a new one for us, Adir.<\/p>\n<p>We were off on Monday for Memorial Day, so we had a nice breakfast at Benedict&#8217;s, then took a walk through Neve Tzedek and the market. Tuesday we said goodbye to Richard, as he headed to Jerusalem and to Petra, in Jordan. It was great to have a visit with him! Click to see <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/starr.crippen\/VisitWithRichard#\" target=\"_blank\">more photos from our trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night was book club at our house, which is always fun. This month&#8217;s book was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/press\/books\/2011\/deadlyembrace.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Deadly Embrace<\/a>,&#8221; about America&#8217;s relationship with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon we had happy hour with a lot of co-workers, then John took me out for dinner for the second time this week at Whitehall.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday we welcomed our friend Billy, a co-worker from Jerusalem. We walked down the beach for a nice dinner at Manta Ray, then enjoyed another Benedict&#8217;s breakfast with him this morning. After a nice stroll down picturesque Rothschild Boulevard, he headed back east.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like folks in Hot Springs aren&#8217;t doing so well. I found out that Mom fell last week and got pretty banged up &#8211; luckily nothing is broken. I really appreciate the cousins keeping an eye on her while she heals up. Then I learned that Cousin Annette broke her arm &#8211; hope everyone is recovering!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1405\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0029x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1405\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1405\" title=\"DSC_0029x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/DSC_0029x-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0029x-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0029x-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cool octopus kite flying outside our window<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we made an encore trip to the Golan Heights and the Galilee area with our friend Richard. We stopped for a Middle Eastern lunch at the south tip of the Sea of Galilee, then stopped at\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau Golan winery for a tour. Then we headed to Vered Hagalil, our favorite cabins overlooking the lake. 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