Tag: Israel

• Yoga Training and Sight-Seeing in Israel

  

  I am a yoga practitioner and a yoga teacher, so an announcement about a training in the Arava desert caught my eye. What better place than a desert could there be for meditation? There are many stories of the sages who, throughout known time, took themselves off into the desert to be still and to […]

  Lut Fox

  13/01/2019

  Travel

  Arava Desert, Israel, Meditation, Tel Aviv, Yoga

• The Shuk: Tastes of Israel in Nairobi

  

  They called it an Israeli culinary celebration. It certainly was. Last Saturday and Sunday Baraka Israel and the Embassy of Israel put on an excellent presentation of Israeli food and wine at Dusit2. When I first came to Kenya in the late 1960s, Israel was one of the prominent supporting countries. Who better, for example, […]

  John Fox

  18/03/2018

  Events, Food

  Baraka Israel, Dusit2 Hotel, Embassy of Israel, Israel, Israeli Wine, Nairobi, The Shuk, Wine

• Wines from Israel Come to Kenya

  

  I enjoy wine. But I am no expert – what is called, I believe, a sommelier. Yes, I can tell whether what I am drinking is dry or sweet, rough or smooth – but little beyond that. And I reckon many of those who claim more than that, who talk glibly and long about aromas […]

  John Fox

  01/10/2017

  Food

  Baraka Israel, Dusit2 Hotel, Israel, Nairobi, Wine