"Drink the Nectar of the Forbidden Fruit !" FruitLover's Profile

Hello, folks,

Please follow my recent short trip to Nablus (Biblical Shekhem)

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Be my guests in Israel, folks! VTers I hosted

Khajuraho (click!), people, (India, Madhya Pradesh state, in the middle of no-where) is more than another beautiful, gorgeous, scenic, breathtaking, splendid, superb, fantastic, awesome, amazing, stunning, fabulous, marvellous, magnificent, charming, bla bla bla, site. Khajuraho is an ULTIMATE destination.

shalom anashim [Hello folks]!
Thanx for visiting my homepage. Hope you'll find some of my pages, tips, pics, adventures, experiences, useful and interesting.

Israel (click!) is my homeland (was born in Haifa (click!)). I have the sublime privilege to be born and live in "The Promised Land", which is according to Bible: "A land of weat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of oil, olive, and honey" (Deuteronomy, 8, 8). In Hebrew: "Eretz hita useora vegefen ute'ena, verimon eretz zeit, shemen udvash"(Devarim, h, h).
The Fig symbolizes femininity, productivity & abundance, the Apple - love & temptation, the Date - male fertility, Pomegranate - abundance, Peach - immortality, and Lemon - purity & loyalty.

Bulgaria (click!) is my second homeland [my parents, both, were born there], but my heart belongs to INcredible INdia (click!), and not only because this huge country is mostly vegetarian like myself.
Everywhere IN INdia you see SMILING FACES, no matter how poor is the person. Most of poor people in India LIVE THE MOMENT. They are not worried about tomorrow. Westerners say "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Indians practice it naturally.
And BLACK is beautiful long before President Obama is in the WHITE-House. Just have a look on some Jewish (smiling) Ethiopian girls in Israel.

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My Last Travels:
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Sept 2008, The WM08 Meeting in Israel & Jordan, which I had the right to organize, has come to a successful conclusion.
Report, attendees' experiences, photos, feedback of unforgettable 25- 30th Sept WorldMeet2008 you can find by clicking here and in my Albums, down at this page.

Kathakali, national drama show of Kerala

Selected Off the Beaten Path's experiences from my travels:

Khajuraho:- Kama Sutra in Stone

Medovina:- Honey-Wine

Meteora:- 'columns of the sky'

Ganges-Rafting

Indian Cobra

Macedonia, Ohrid's Pearl

Chess Figures

Kathakali-Kerala

National Museum, India, Delhi

Ibexes, En-Gedi, Israel

Dead-Sea(satellite)

Coconut's Virtues

Varanasi- Sanctuary of Death

Jackfruit

Drink the Nectar of the Forbidden Fruit (click!)

You name it:
Almond (Marzipan)
Apple
Avocado
Blackberry
Breadfruit
Custard-Apple/ Annona I , Custard-Apple/ Annona II
Dragonfruit
Durian
Fig
Kiwi
Lychee
Mangoooo
Mangosteen I, Mangosteen II
Melon I
Melon II , Melon III , Melon IV
Noni fruit I , Noni fruit II
Olive
Orange
Papaya I , Papaya II
Passiflora (Passion-fruit)
Pitanga
Pomegranate
Raspberry
Rhambutan
Salmonberry
Sapodilla/ Zapota
Snakefruit
Strawberry
Sugar Cane
Tzabar (Preakly Pear)
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Fruits/Frutas/buah/Phal...... MULTI-LINGUAL list:
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fruit - English, French, Dutch, Flemish
fruta - Spanish, Portuguese
Pazham - Tamil (very ancient lang. of Southern India)
Phal - Hindi (national lang. of India), Urdu(national lang. of Pakistan)
Phalum - Sanskrit (divine lang. of India)
buah - Indonesian, Malay language
shui guo - Mandarin Chinese
fawakah - Arabic
gwa il - Korean
kudamono - Japanese
frutta - Italian
frukt - Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese
Voankazo - Malagasy (Madagascar)
plod - Bulgarian
Ovoshje - Macedonian
sadje - Slovenian
puuvili - Estonian
frouto - Greek
hedelmat - Finnish
frucht - German
gyumolcs - Hungarian
owoc - Polish
ovoce - Czech
voce - Croatian
mirg - Armenian
fruct - Romanian
frugt - Danish
pri - Hebrew (Israel)
mewa - Dari (Afghanistan)
matunda - Kiswahili
miveh - Farsi (Iran)
Prutas - Tagalog (Philippines)
Hoa Trai - Vietnamese
fryt - Albanian
fru - Provençal

Don't you see your language in the list?
Tell me and I'll be glad to add it.

MYDSRIP

Mirjana Risteska unexpectedly passed away on 10.09.2008, leaving us the task to continue her path called Love and Peace for everyone everywhere. May Your Dear Soul Rest in Peace, my beloved Mirjana

Hebrew Calendar Clock

tishrey, Heshvan, kislev, tevet, shvat, adar, nisan, eiyar, sivan, tamuz, av, elul

We have our unique 12 months that are different from the most widely used Gregorian calendar of January-......-December.
Our New Year (Hebrew: Rosh HaShannah, verbally, the head of the year) always falls in autumn season, actually in September. In the history of our ancient people the year began on Pessach (Passover) time, spring season, usually April, but this is past history (you can find it in The Bible, the Old Testament).
In everyday life most of Israelis use the Gregorian calendar, and we are well connected to the western world. Some Israelis celebrate the Christmas and the New Year of 1st January, still....
We share with you the Christian New Year but... HAVE OUR ANCIENT HOLIDAY OF ROSH HASHANNAH 3 MONTHS EARLIER.
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....Which I experienced personally:

- Athens, Greece
- Barcelona, Spain
- Belgrade, Serbia
- Cairo, Egypt
- Delhi, India
- Dubrovnik, Croatia

VTers' FEEDBACK:
"Hello Avraham:
I was in Dubrovnic recently and searching for a vegetarian restaurant. When I
googled a search, your webpage appeared. I relied on your recommendation for
Nishte and was not disappointed. The food was fabulous and artful and the
chef/wait staff were delightful. What a great find! So glad I found your notes.
Thanks for taking the time to refer to the restaurant.
L'Shana Tova,
Marlene"

- Firenze, Italia
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Munnar, Kerala, India
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Ravello, Amalfian coast, Italia
- Roma, Italia

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are loosing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
And treat those two imposters just the same,
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn- out tools.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch- and- toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,
To serve your turn along after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you,
Except the will which says to them: "Hold on".

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can feel the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the world and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son !"