Visit at Zichron Ya'akov

Zichron Ya'akov, founded by Romanian immigrants in 1882 on the southern slopes of Mount Carmel, 33km/21mi south of Haifa, is now one of Israel's most important towns. The growing of vines and almond-trees was introduced by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1887, and a bottle factory was established at Nahsholim, 9km/6mi west. The settlers showed their gratitude by naming the village and its synagogue, built in 1885 at the expense of the Rothschild family, after Edmond de Rothschild's father Jacob (James)...(information taken from one of the sites available).

we started our stroll in this street finding a good place to eat lunch

we ended up at this place Cucina Bar, an Italian restaurant

Enna-Marie staring at the other kids

what's for lunch mom?

Menchie ordered this delicious Greek salad...

...and Maarten had Ricardo pasta...also very good!

after lunch we continued strolling and saw this store with a small garden. These are some of the ornaments.

very colorful!

angel and froggy ornaments

flower shot turned out good

you can find jewelries, paintings and some ceramics in this art shop

ornaments hanging on the wall

handmade birds for sale in one of the stores. Enna-Marie will for sure like one of these in our balcony.

a mailman statue

mama trying to smile while Enna-Marie is getting crancky and tired

a unique decor in one of the stores

of course we had ice-cream (mango and watermelon) on this very sunny day...yum!

our dear princess has fallen asleep on our way back to Haifa