Much of our lives are experienced alone. How strange then to realise that cities respond to this aloneness in different ways. Now back in London for a few weeks – bereft of The Baby, The Wife and also The Dog…
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Category: London, Tel-Aviv, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Travel, Uncategorized, Yes there's a world outside Tel-Aviv
Tags: Israel, London, Loneliness, Middle East, Social Norms, Tel-Aviv, Travel and Tourism
If you are what you eat, and the adult is the product of the child’s memory, then yes, I’m about 5,000 miles too far west for my own good. Packed lunches at school rarely involved sandwiches – instead there were…
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Category: love, lovely little things, Nom Nom Nom (Food), The product of what made me..., Uncategorized
Tags: food, Israel, Japan, Japanese cuisine, Kyoto, London, memory, omu-rice, Oriental City, Ramen, Rice, Sushi, Tel-Aviv
Language is very important to me – one day, hopefully, it will even begin paying the bills. Still, it is to my ‘job’ what paint and cement-blocks are to builders. So, naturally, the imminent arrival of baby’s first words is…
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Category: Parenting, Uncategorized, Writing
Tags: bilingual, English language, fatherhood, German, Hebrew language, Japan, Judaism, languages, London, Mandarin, parenthood, Social Sciences, speech
Having drinks at Port Said, one of the trendier bars in my neighbourhood, I ran into some old industrial designer friends. We got talking but within a few minutes I realised I was already excluded. Usually I find this upsetting;…
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Category: TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: Amsterdam, bicycles, bike, Great Synagogue, Hajj, Hipsters, Israel, London, New York, pitango, Port Said, Tel-Aviv
Unpublished In Tel-Aviv 