Welcome to Vilnius, Lithuania! With five days to spend in the city, I worried at first that it might be too long. But I embraced the opportunity to chill in one place for a while and therein, fell a little in love with the vibe of the city. I stayed at a nice hostel tucked into a great location within the Old Town, an area which, in despite of indeed being old, is quite modern, clean, and quiet. In fact, the city is so silent that my tour guide made a point of whispering to u

Just a one-hour flight can whisk you away to an entirely different world. My last post left off as the wheels of our plane lifted off the ground of the Holy Land during the latest war with Iran. As they touched ground again, we arrived in Larnaca, Cyprus. The view as we flew into the airport looked like paradise. We flew over vibrant blue Mediterranean waters and sunny shores. As a bus drove us along the tarmac from the plane to the airport, people marveled over the flamingos

There comes a point when war becomes boring, if not mundane; and there comes another point when it becomes annoying. Two weeks of being in the same city, running up and down and up and down into the same miklat, going for walks in the same neighborhood square...Whereas it was good to have downtime and familiarity in those spaces between missile attacks the first week or so, it began to feel very same-y, especially in Rishon LeZion, a comfortable, quiet, and residential city.