Monday, May 12, 2014

From Place To Space: Hello Tel Aviv!




Hello back all my friends and readers! It's so good to be back with you. What has been a two-weeks holiday seemed like a little eternity to me. But I filled up the little eternity with a maximum load of inspiration in Israel. But before I dwell on my Israeli adventures, can you imagine what's the hardest part of coming back home? Yup, going through hundreds of pictures and picking just a few for the blog. But be reassured, I will blog about my Israel trip several times. And today I want to start the Israel travel experience with the first introduction of my home base in the Middle East: Tel Aviv.



Now let me reassure you: A trip to Israel is an experience packed with so many impressions, sights, scents, ideas that it feels difficult to put it down in words and pictures. But I will try to share a bit of the experience with you all. I traveled to Israel and Tel Aviv for the first time - thus I arrived with a very sketchy idea of what Tel Aviv is like. I knew it has a cool lifestyle, is pretty young, has great beaches and means 'Spring Hill'. That's it more or less. 





Tel Aviv is all of that and more. It is very vibrant and leisurely cool. It is a little architecture open-air museum with numerous buildings in the Bauhaus style, it features a mixture of beautifully restored white facades and worn-out buildings, it swirls up a European look with a Mediterranean lifestyle and Middle Eastern chaos, colours and scents. Tel Aviv is also a city that has many green spots and corners - something that caught my Urban Jungle Bloggers eye of course!




But the best part of Tel Aviv is: It is the home to some of my beloved Israeli friends. I am such a happy chap to have those friends who took the best care ever of me, showed me around, organized a mutual dinner in a kosher restaurant and took me to a fab Jerusalem expedition and Jaffa flea market and design discovery (more on these adventures over the coming weeks). Thanks again to Chedva, Diego, Sivan, Sarah and Einat for a fantastic Israel experience!

To keep it simple for potential Tel Aviv visitors among you - here are a few of my favorite spots in this beautiful city

For breakfasts, brunches and yummy pastries all day long: Bakery (try the chocolate-halva roll), Benedict, Baker's, Café Nina.
For drinks & good food: Shulchan, Nachmani, Ahat Ha'am, Orna & Ella.
Yummy ice cream: Anita's.
For sunset snacks & drinks: Banana Beach Café.

More will follow over the coming weeks. Stay tuned! Happy Monday everyone!


Photography by Igor Josifovic

13 comments :

  1. wow! you need to publish more post about this trip! planning to visit Tel Aviv this year, so looking for inpirations!

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  2. Absolutely beautiful Igor, and so green!!! Loved looking through your photos and can't wait to read more. Welcome back! xx

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  3. Also can't wait to hear and see more about your trip. Looking forward…

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  4. Beautiful pictures. Must admit I'm glad you're back, I was getting serious holiday envy :)

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  5. A wonderfully urbane overview mister. Such a cool looking city. Thanks for sharing :-)

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  6. Wonderful post, Igor! I love the Indian Fig cactus! I had no idea it grew there. I have one outside my bedroom window and it already has a few new "ears" growing. YAY! As always, your photography is stunning and you look so happy! Thank you for sharing your trip with us and have a lovely week! Jocelyn xx

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  7. Happy to read that Orna&Ella is still there, love that restaurant

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  8. Fantastic photos! I'd love to go to Tel Aviv and am trying to convince my boyfriend it's a good idea - so I might show him this blog ;)

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  9. My gosh Igor I love this place - always fancied visiting and now so much more:) Great photography too my friend - welcome back xxx

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  10. This looks just amazing and I'm so happy you had a great time! hearing all the time about Tel Aviv from Einat and seeing your pictures makes me want to visit too!

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  11. Oh Igor, ich hätte nie gedacht, dass Tel Aviv so wunderschön ist! :-) Für mich war Tel Aviv nie eine Stadt, die auf meiner Wunschliste stand, aber nach dem Bericht und den Fotos muss ich das noch mal intensiv überdenken. Danke für die tollen Bilder..soooo gern mehr davon!
    Liebe Grüße, Kathy

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    1. Lieben Dank Kathy! Die Stadt ist wirklich eine Reise wert - sie ist jung, dynamisch und kreativ! Bald folgt mehr auf dem Blog!

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  12. I'm catching up with my morning coffee! As I was going through these images I kept wondering why we never see this side of Israel in the news. I want to visit all these cafés, and don't even get me started on the beach! What a wonderful trip this must have been.

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