Tel Aviv Neighborhood

The obviously old building on the corner, surrounded by new-style buildings from the 30s onward, is about to be torn down.
I walked around the neighborhood near our hotel looking at architecture, street life, and food shops.

Ultra modern buildings are near the beach, while the buildings just a few
streets in are older. They vary in condition -- some are not well kept-up.
I believe apartments in this area are very expensive as I saw quite a few
real-estate offices with ads for them.

My walk was all near the beach.

The Tel-Aviv look is very distinctive, I think. Bauhaus-influenced buildings, Mediterranean atmosphere. Or ultra-modern.

The plaques on this house identify it as the house where David Ben Gurion
lived and worked. It's on Ben-Gurion Street.

Small food shops like this one were side by side with a large supermarket.
I don't know if the motor scooter was bringing berries to the shop or
about to deliver them to a customer.

Nuts in the window of another shop.

Delicious-looking pastry in a bakery window: I would say this pastry looks more central European-influenced than
Arab-influenced, though the food here is definitely a combination of those influences and others too.

The supermarket hummus counter. Huge selection!

Bottles of olive oil, including the same brand that I buy at
my Ann Arbor Whole Foods store. 

I also walked on the beach quite a bit today. It's hot but still bearable... we're expecting it to get hotter. And I'll be posting eventually about what I've been eating!