More Tel Aviv

I wont bore you with what I did at the bank today, but this afternoon and evening was a lot of fun. I met up with a friend of mine and my sisters named Mor and we went to this cafe on the beach and had a coffee and caught up. Below is the view from the coffee place, which is relatively north at Hilton Beach (named for the hotel that overlooks it). Then we walked south to the area between Gordon Beach and Frishman Beach (named for the two streets that reach it). Gordon Beach is the closest to my house, at a whopping 8 minute walk, roughly one kilometer. As you can see, the sun was setting, but the water was still warm, as there is a warm current that flows through the Mediterannean Sea along the coast of Israel, I believe it starts aroung north Cario and flows all the way up toward Turkey. If you look at the far left of the photo, that is basically where Yaffo starts. If you recal from my previous post I had a photo from Yaffo looking north, and this is from Tel Aviv looking south. you can see the same hotels along the strip in both photos from two different angles.
The other thing that is interesting about the Tel Aviv beachfront is that the buildings that actually line the shore are relatively nasty. They ahve always been nasty and only in the recent years have they started to be rebuilt. If you expand the photo below you can see they are rebuilding some of the disgusting old buildings (see the crane) and next to it you can see the smaller buildings that are fairly delapidated... I'm postive that over the coming 20 years this entire beachfront will get a massive face lift, as it is prime real estate.
This evening my friend Rafi invited me to Yaffo, he is housesitting for a friend. The apartment was amazing. There is an area of Yaffo where all the old Arabesque buildings have been refurbished and the architecture is stunning. The apartment was amazing and had this massive roof deck where we all sat. I have to go back durring the daylight hours to take photos, but the area was stunning.