Today I was at Beit Guvrin national park, where there are many kinds of caves. There are caves from hundreds of years BCE, with hundreds of carved out niches to attract pigeons to fatten up and eat for dinner.
There are huge multilevel systems of caves from the same era used for water cisterns and olive presses, with curving stone staircases winding endlessly down and down.
There are later caves which are for tombs, and later caves which are actually bell-shaped quarries, cut from the hole in the top.
All of this is almost invisible from above ground, except for the fenced-off entrances and archeological dig tents you'd never know anything was here except cows grazing.
These cows were total scaredy cats, by the way, they kept running off as soon as we'd get remotely close. I've never seen a cow run away before. Don't they normally just stand there chewing their cud etc?
Exciting event #2 of the day: After much buildup, I finally ate a Krembo, apparently the highlight of any trip to Israel! This is a very thin chocolate shell covering a strange-textured, sort of marshmallowey but not really, creamy filling. They are wrapped by hand since it's too delicate for a machine, and are only seen in the winter. Maybe this trip was good timing after all?
Exciting event #2 of the day: After much buildup, I finally ate a Krembo, apparently the highlight of any trip to Israel! This is a very thin chocolate shell covering a strange-textured, sort of marshmallowey but not really, creamy filling. They are wrapped by hand since it's too delicate for a machine, and are only seen in the winter. Maybe this trip was good timing after all?
When you're being funny, you obviously make me el-oh-el times a mil, but when you're not being funny, your writing is so perfectly unadorned, if that makes sense. It's just really simple and clear and lovely. And then sometimes you add in the slightest ornamentation and instead of feeling saccharine, it's more like... a krembo, maybe?
Posted by: laurie | 01/23/2009 at 08:14 PM
BLUSHING. thank you.
Posted by: Malka | 01/26/2009 at 01:15 AM