After a teary 1am goodbye at the airport, we're on our way across Europe and the Atlantic towards New York City! It's the next leg of our journey and we're feeling pretty excited. Having said that, the two great weeks we spent catching up with friends and exploring this Pandoras box of a country went by like the wind. Liat rode the bus with us from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, although she was running late to a yoga class and had to organise for a friend to meet us at...

We couldn't have left Israel without visiting Jerusalem, so it was convenient that a few of our Israeli friends are actually studying at the University there! It was surreal - standing at the tram stop and then suddenly being greeted by our friends Shachar, Bar and Almog. Liat joined us a bit later and the conversations flowed like only a weekend had past since Cambodia! Jerusalem is, without a doubt, the most interesting and intriguing city we have visited yet....

We've just spent an incredible but all-too-short four days gallivanting around the northern Israeli region of Galilee with our good friend Roni. We first met Roni in Cambodia and it didn't take long to see what a great person she is. Being a massage therapist (as well as a social worker) she can also be thanked for inspiring Jess's newfound interest in massage. On our way, we detoured through Akko, a coastal Arabic town not far from Roni's place. Akko is one of ...

Knowing we would be returning to this modern, upbeat city for our flight out, we didn't spend long in Tel Aviv. Anyway, we were eager to catch up with all our good friends and only had only two weeks in the Holy Land. To update those not in the know, the volunteer project we were involved with in Cambodia was locally managed by Israelis. Most of the non-Khmer workers and volunteers were from Israel and we inevitably got to know them pretty well. So, to uphold a ...

It's 4am in the morning, and the streets of Delhi are unusually quiet as we're on our way to the airport for our flight to Israel. We've just spent the last few days shopping, something we've mostly avoided since leaving Australia, although we figured this was our last chance to get a good Indian market bargain and there were a few things we needed... Our old shoes had suffered some serious wear and tear last year in the Asian wet season, and trekking up and dow...