I wanted to share yesterday's wonderful experience at Yafo--Joppa--by the sea. Yafo is a mixed community of Christians, Muslims and Jews just South of Tel Aviv. We spent the day 'walk about' visiting the Ilana Goor museum.
The museum is a renovated hostel and also the artist's home. And what a home! She gutted the building in the 1970's and started to renovate, keeping those wonderful oriental and mid-east details. Archways and brick from a by-gone era frame the rooms which are tastefully furnished with the occasional Henry Moore, Giacometti and her own wonderfully inventive work. She is an intelligent and playful omni-artist. And she lives in this beautifully restored hostel. (I caught a glimpse of her with a colleague lunching under the shade of a palm tree).
The sculpture garden on the roof top is wonderful. There one can view the Sea, take in the face of an ever changing Yafo, hear the call to prayer. Property prices for a 40 sq metre flat by the sea is now over 4 million US$ at the current exchange rate. Two years ago when I was visiting the region, a young colleague told me she had bought a flat at a very reasonable price and I should do the same. If only!
Sleep still eludes at 5.16 AM local time, but common sense does not.I am off to bed. G'day! LankBlue²
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