http://henrik.kibak.com Just another therapeutic weblog... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever I visit Denmark I spend the first couple of days kind of shaky... it is such an adrenalin surge. When you grow up speaking a secret language that no one but your family knows, and then you suddenly step out of a plane into a crowded city ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=70 There were only a few single-family homes in our Neve Granot neighborhood by the Israel Museum, so all the park space and the nearby Hebrew University campus gave it a suburban feel. As you can see from the satellite photo of Jerusalem to the left, it was ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=66 Food is a wonderful part of life in Israel especially the dairy and the vegetables. It is hard for me to write this, but I think Israeli dairy beats Danish dairy, at least in the “soft cheeses and yogurt” category. There is something here called “Revion” (it is ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=52 Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the Bible is untrue, but there are some advantages to living overseas and this figure captures one of them pretty nicely. These were the four editions of Time Magazine for the week of April 2.  While the rest of the world ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=42 I spent a few minutes installing the Google Notebook extension a few weeks ago and didn't get too excited. It was nice to be able to type notes into a mini text box sort of as a web-based to-do list or log of library citations. But then I discovered ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=40 When all the local newsmedia is in a language you barely understand, podcasts become your daily bread. And "Juice" is my bakeshop. It checks for and automatically receives the approximately ten podcasts I subscribe to and each evening I just transfer them to my MP3 player. Fortunately there is ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=45 Day 1 – Kris arrives in late afternoon. Spend the night in Jerusalem. Day 2 – Drive to the Dead Sea and then all the way down to Eilat for a couple of days of snorkelling and night clubs. Because of Jess we slept on the beach... but ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=63 The Shvil Israel is a trail that runs from the furthest North of the country to the Taba border crossing on the shore of the Red Sea in the South. Like all government-sanctioned trails in Israel it is not highly maintained, but is well-marked with three stripes. Different trails ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=7 See the January 9, 2007 post for this to make sense... So Kaj's visit was a big success and we followed the outline with minor revisions. We got to Gamla National Park too late which is too bad because I think the story there is as interesting as Masada. ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=61 Click for full size. Over the past many visits to Israel and now these past four months of living here, I have developed what I consider to be a pretty fine 10-day tour of the land. And tommorrow I get to try out this refined version with my son Kaj. Day ... http://henrik.kibak.com/?p=59