On our way to the bedouin farm we stopped at a goat dairy, or "lonely people farm" as they call them in Hebrew. In other words, a farm out in the middle of nowhere. We purchased goat yogurt drinks flavored with rosewater as well as two lovely cheeses: one brie-like and the other a 2-year, aged cheddar-like that had a wonderful bite to it. We enjoyed them for breakfast the following morning where we stayed out in the desert along with some olives, cucumbers, passionfruit and mango that we brought from home.
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Later we drove to Sde Boker and visited the campus of Ben Gurion University. There were a few ibex roaming about and flaunting some very impressive head gear.
For lunch we ate on campus and I chose a variety of salads (from top, clockwise): Israeli, beet, cabbage, yellow pepper, fennel & cranberry and carrot, caraway and celery root. All quite refreshing for an extremely hot day in the middle of the Negev. Along with our meal we had a couple of "black beers," as they call them...which reminds me of Pirate Black Beard each time I hear it. It was tasty, a non-alcoholic, malt beverage that tasted like a cross between beer and birch beer.
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Upon returning to Jerusalem that evening, I requested to be taken out for shawarma, which I had not yet experienced. Shawarma is basically Arabic street food, meet sliced off of a spit and served in a number of ways...we had ours wrapped in flat bread accompanied by cucumbers, tomatoes, pickles, onions and a boatload of tahini...plus more for dipping.
At his right hand: Shawarma...and at his left: A plethora of napkins. Enough said.
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Later that evening we ventured into the German Colony for dessert at a swanky place called Colony.
The hot chocolate cake wasn't bad...
but the tahini ice cream topped with halva and silan was amazing. quite amazing.
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