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How do Spend a Rainy Day in Tel Aviv

Normally Tel Aviv, Israel is a city to be enjoyed out of doors. On the hot sunny days it is great to go to the beach, park, or sit in one of the many open-air cafes. Recently however, winter has kicked in. It is so windy and rainy that it is hard to even get out the door in the morning.

Here are a few suggestions of rainy day activities:

Sip Hot Apple Cider in a Cozy Café

Most Tel Aviv restaurants offer hot apple cider (with or without wine) all year long. It normally comes piping hot with cubes of cut up apples and a whole cinnamon stick.  Apple cider is a wonderful alternative to coffee or hot chocolate and will warm you to the core. Some good places for cider are Cafe Amelia (Dizengoff 88) and Bialik Cafe ( Bialik 2).

Browse a Secondhand Bookstore

A great way to spend a rainy afternoon is exploring one of Tel Aviv's  numerous bookstores. The chain store Steimatzky has a wide variety of books in English and a lot of the books are buy one get one free. If you are looking for a more unique selection go to one of the many used book stores in the city. Two of the these funky used book stores are Book Junky (Dizengoff 167) and Bibliophile (Allenby 87). They are each overflowing with reading materials and you can spend hours pouring through their hodgepodge books in many languages including English.

Practice some Hot Yoga

Bikram Yoga (or Hot Yoga) is perfect for a cold rainy day. This one of a kind yoga is  practiced in a sauna-like hot, dry room in order to warm up the muscles for more flexibility. The strenuous poses combined with the heat of the room get you working up a great sweat so when you emerge from the classroom you are refreshed and rejuvinated. In Tel Aviv, there are two Bikram studios, one in Dizengoff Center inside Gymmy and at Carlebach 14.

http://www.bikramyogaisrael.co.il/index.asp?siteLang=2

Take in a Movie

Going to the movies is a classic rainy day activity and works well in Tel Aviv as well. The Lev Theater is located on the top floor of Dizengoff Center and offers new foreign and domestic releases. Most of the English language movies are subtitled so those of you who don't have working Hebrew (like me) are in luck.

http://www.lev.co.il/ (Listings in Hebrew)

These are just a few of the many options for indoor fun in Tel Aviv. To find a great Tel Aviv restaurant and some more TLV tips check out http://www.tastetlv.com!

 

 

 

About the Author

Laura Goldstein was born and raised in Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. While growing up her family always took advantage of the diverse restaurants that flourished in DC because of its many immigrant communities. From experiencing everything from Persian to Salvadorian cuisine she gained a love of exploring different cultures, especially through food.

She has a B.A. in Spanish language and literature and anthropology from the University of Maryland. Immeditely after graduating she spent 8 months in Mallorca, Spain as an English language assistant. In Mallorca one of her favorite things to do was to scope out new unique restaurants and funky bars. She is very excited to do the same with restaurants in Tel Aviv with Taste TLV.com.

Good ways to get over rainy day blues?

I live about 40 miles south of Seattle. Rains alot here. Just curious if anyone has any great ideas about getting rid of the rainy day blues. For my kids too!

Make rainy days fun. If it is mild and raining, then put on coats, hats, wellington boots and go outside. Play with the kids by splashing in puddles, throw twigs over the bridge into the stream and watch them come out of the other side. Traffic watch, see how many cars can splash you, show kids all kinds of weather can be great.

Make your garden a fun place to be in the rain. Help children understand what rain is by doing experiments. Also having water level gages are fun even if this is just putting out containers to collect water to measure.

When my kids were really little they loved the spring and summer rain, because I allowed them to strip off to their underwear and have water fights in the back garden. We used to go for walks in the rain too. Even in winter they can be fun particularly knowing there is a warm bath, fluffly towels and hot chocolate waiting for you when you get home.

We pitched a tent in the back garden for the children and their friends a few times when a lot of rain was forecast in the summer holidays. There is nothing so cosy as snuggling down with your friends, chatting and listening to the rain fall on the canvas.

Although now teenagers if it is cold and wet we still snuggle down together in front of the woodburner, pile up the furry blankets and listen to the wind and rain together. Having breaks only to tell stories and news, toast marshmellows and dash off to make more hot chocolate.

Get outside when it rains, it stops those rainy day blues.

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