Number of Cockroach Sightings: 3 (2 baby escapees in the flat and the other dead in the yoghurt section of Supersol) It’s not exactly rocket science. I mean, what’s everyone’s first word here? Bamba. Obviously. He randomly started asking for it by name in the middle of Supersol, sounded very cute I have to say. Husband very peed off as he …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 1 (sadly nothing available in the bathroom to kill it with and I’ll bet it’s lurking somewhere near my bed) My god its hot. Like really, really hot. I have lived in Israel on my gap year, plus Texas and Louisiana, and I know what hot is. This is bloody hot. …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 Time to collect our sal klitah and register non-hebrew speaking husband for ulpan. We take a bus and observe the “alternative” Israeli that resides in the North. Generally a little calmer, more polite, better dressed (less of the all-hanging-out look you see in Tel Aviv) and really keen on olim. …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 1 (killed with sandal) It’s glorious here. Perfect weather, beautiful views of mountains and the flat kindly donated to us by a family on holiday is in a very convenient location. For some unexplained reason there is no hot water but we will cope. We go along to Clalit to register …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 110 olim (we think) on our flight. Biggest UK aliyah group ever. Slight delay which made our little boy cranky for his dinner. Is it me – or is El Al particularly slow at everything? As husband pointed out, there is a reason we have flown British Airways for our …