go to more festivals

I didn’t make it to Gourmet Week in the end but that was because I’d just eaten in a restaurant the week before and I didn’t want to overdo it.

However, suddenly it seems like lots of festivals are happening in Tel Aviv. Must be because it’s summer and night festivals are fun because you can be out on the streets all night and never get cold!

Last week we went to Night Flea, the flea market festival that’s happening every Thursday night in June. It was really fun! All the usual flea market stalls were open but there were also exhibitions of lots of original handmade crafts and artwork, street performers, food, an outisde bar with DJs and live bands.

This Thursday it’s me and my bf’s six year anniversary so we’re going to go out to dinner in a restaurant and afterwards we’ll check out the music festival that’s happening in the streets all over the city in honour of the summer solstice. I’m excited!

There’s a food festival happening in Tel Aviv in two weeks called ‘Gourmet Week’ in which a bunch of fancy restaurants will let you eat a meal there for about 80 shekels (that’s about ten pounds). One of my favourite restaurants, Tahel (a tapas bar), is participating – yum! I definitely intend to check it out.

My dad used to be an actor in children’s theatre and I grew up going to loads of different street and children’s theatre festivals all over the UK. It was heaps of fun. I haven’t been to something like that for ages and I miss it. Actually, any type of festival would do me: flower shows, Gay Pride, film festivals, music festivals, new agey-type festivals, arts festivals… As with my ‘exhibitions’ goal, I just need to make a point of regularly finding out about these things. At the moment I simply have no idea what’s going on (and not just regarding festivals – ha!).