Pampered in Jordan: The Dead Sea resorts
In the ‘village square’ the and female duo were belting out their version of Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” “This night is magic, seems to whisper and hush, the soft moonlight seems […]
Category Archives: Travel
Setting sights on Galician horizons
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The sun’s rays dip beneath the soft and undulating foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. In spring the weather is still […]
Travel: Expanding Kurdistan horizons
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The men setting up a boom to hold lights for a stage below a giant plastic poster reading “#unite- 4heritage” […]
Galicia Rising: A tour of Lviv and the region
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN From Kiev to Lviv: First impressions The sun sets slowly in April, the trees have still not got their leaves back, and Kiev’s Borispol airport doesn’t […]
Psagot winery accentuates its Biblical root
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN in The Jerusalem Post February 4, 2015 Yaakov Berg tells a story about the Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who invested massively in wine production in Europe […]
Touring Ottoman era Israel from Rishon to Jaffa
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Anyone driving down the 431 towards Rishon LeTsiyon can’t miss the strange old buildings that loom over the highway near the exit to Be’er Yaakov. This […]
Time to travel to Turkey
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN (Written for The Jerusalem Post, hence the concentration in parts on Israeli tourism) Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is everywhere. A post display in Istanbul throughout the city […]
Highland Holiday
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Things to do on Scottish Holiday: Make sure to destroy rental car at end of trip, so that it can […]
Psagot wines are rooted in Jewish history
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Yaakov Berg tells a story about the Baron Edmund de Rothschild. Rothschild invested massively in wine production in Europe and also in Ottoman Palestine in the […]
Toasting the midnight sun
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Sjogata Street in Bodo (Bodoe) is lined with modern buildings. Monotonous and boring, they are the result of the punishing […]
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