Fill 'er up, mate

So you thought Israel was all camels and desert? I know I did - reading stories about kibbutz volunteers and watching documentaries on the BBC, you never really get a balanced view (and we're not talking about politics here)of what Israel is really like...I know I was shocked on my first drive through Tel Aviv, seemed way too developed (almost American-like) to me.

Well, for any of you who are still in the dark about Israel, the following two pictures might shed a little more light on the winter we've just had - it wasn't all shorts and flip-flops, trust me. The first shows the Sea of Galilee (known here as 'the Kinneret') before winter, the second shows a recent shot. That's quite a refill...

Before


After