Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
Well, this is the first time I'm celebrating Christmas, it has been a beautiful season in London, which was covered in snow for a while, which is also new to me for the most part.
I'm having a lovely time. who would have thought that about 5 months ago, just when the Flotilla incident was being debated on international media, the Israeli-Turkish relations became more tense and I was called for a reserve duty in which me and the guys laughed off the irony that the best part of our combat rations had a large 'Made in Turkey' and a Turkish flag printed on the box- I would now be celebrating Christmas in snowy London, and be engaged to boot.
funny how things turn out, one short excavation season in which I've met my fiancée changed my destiny. =) (BTW, you might be able to watch some information about our work in February on the history channel in a program about Saladin in which they visited our site, including the area I supervised).
Me, about 5 months ago:
Me, yesterday, at the Apollo Victoria, just after watching 'Wicked' the musical with Gaelle, I've read the book about 10 years ago when I was still in the regular forces of the Israeli army, from what I remember of reading the book, it seems they have changed some of the essentials of the plot, but it was brilliant, and we had an incredible time:
Christmas dinner at our place:
At the Imperial War Museum. Excellent museum, with very good sections about WWI, WWII, The Holocaust, and modest sections about the wars of the modern era, the unrealistic glamour the SAS and the British special forces are presented is a bit amusing though.
Imperial war museum:
Peckham Rye as seen outside our window.
Peckham Rye in snow!
I'm having a lovely time. who would have thought that about 5 months ago, just when the Flotilla incident was being debated on international media, the Israeli-Turkish relations became more tense and I was called for a reserve duty in which me and the guys laughed off the irony that the best part of our combat rations had a large 'Made in Turkey' and a Turkish flag printed on the box- I would now be celebrating Christmas in snowy London, and be engaged to boot.
funny how things turn out, one short excavation season in which I've met my fiancée changed my destiny. =) (BTW, you might be able to watch some information about our work in February on the history channel in a program about Saladin in which they visited our site, including the area I supervised).
Me, about 5 months ago:
Me, yesterday, at the Apollo Victoria, just after watching 'Wicked' the musical with Gaelle, I've read the book about 10 years ago when I was still in the regular forces of the Israeli army, from what I remember of reading the book, it seems they have changed some of the essentials of the plot, but it was brilliant, and we had an incredible time:
Christmas dinner at our place:
At the Imperial War Museum. Excellent museum, with very good sections about WWI, WWII, The Holocaust, and modest sections about the wars of the modern era, the unrealistic glamour the SAS and the British special forces are presented is a bit amusing though.
Imperial war museum:
Peckham Rye as seen outside our window.
Peckham Rye in snow!
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