Trillian2005's VirtualTourist Home Page

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances constribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demand of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

- Lawrence Durrell: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
As of November 22, 2008, I'm in a temporary residence in Karlsruhe for 6 weeks (without any Internet connection). After that I'll move back to Israel for a long time. In other words, I won't be on VT as much as I'd like to during the next weeks or months. But I'll try to update my pages and take a look at yours whenever I get a chance. Happy traveling!

My Recent Trips:
I would like to introduce my most recent destinations with a few Googlisms for a nice overview of what you may be getting into at any given moment.

- Berlin is mine
- Berlin is entering an Argentine future
- Berlin is waiting
- Berlin is located at Lindenstrasse 14
- Berlin is free
- Berlin is back
- Berlin is £36
- Berlin is located in the hub of the capital's banking and stock market quarter
- Berlin is centrally located in a quiet town
- Berlin is a metropolis of juxtaposition
- Berlin is to Germany what New York is to the USA
- Berlin is Europe's largest construction site
- Berlin is one of those strange movies that critics will heap adoration upon
- Berlin is full of contradictions
- Berlin is gaining recognition day by day
- Berlin is
- Berlin is in the second building
- Berlin is many things to many people
- Berlin is directly situated on one of the most beautiful and famous boulevards
- Berlin is possible?

- Tel Aviv is recognized by the Israeli ministry of tourism and holds a certified travel agency license
- Tel Aviv is Carmel market
- Tel Aviv is published twice a year by the institute of archeology of the Tel Aviv university
- Tel Aviv is the spiritual center of the state of Israel
- Tel Aviv is opening the windows to summer
- Tel Aviv is the main national route focus and the headquarters of all major truck companies
- Tel Aviv is the only city in the world
- Tel Aviv is truly a city that never sleeps
- Tel Aviv is only a short bus ride form the university campus
- Tel Aviv is pleased to offer mileage points with the following carriers
- Tel Aviv is quite a contrast
- Tel Aviv is Israel's bustling metropolitan city and a great place to buy last minute souvenirs
- Tel Aviv is the first place where anyone goes

- Mainz is the German wine city
- Mainz is permeated with a special magic
- Mainz is more than two thousand years old
- Mainz is able to offer
- Mainz is generally moderate and mild
- Mainz is one of those cities
- Mainz is hi
- Mainz is maintaining the monitoring software for the amanda data acquisition
- Mainz is a 10
- Mainz is quite simply
- Mainz is feverishly under
- Mainz is situated in the central rhine
- Mainz is also twinned with Garry’s hometown of Baku in Azerbaidjan
- Mainz is about to build up a second liquid hydrogen target set
- Mainz is the battle of the world champions
- Mainz is the headquarters of ZDF
- Mainz is not justified in charging fees
- Mainz is full of small meandering streets
- Mainz is foreseen by the end of autumn
- Mainz is a privately run company
- Mainz is planning a digital bible
- Mainz is shown on a city map
- Mainz is available here sorry
- Mainz is working on the upstream source for xprint

- Birmingham, UK
- Dover, UK
- Folkestone, UK
- Keflavik, Iceland
- Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
- Kuwait, Kuwait
- Melbourne, Australia
- Oostende, Belgium
- Recife, Brazil
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Verona, Italy

...and will return to frequently:

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- Aselfingen, Black Forest, Germany
- Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (Ollie's favorite destination)
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales, UK
- Narsarsuaq, Greenland
- Yotam, Zambia

Exclusively on VT! From 16:00 - 21:00 (week days) and 18:00 - 23:00 (Saturdays) Ollie reads travel stories and gives directions to lost tourists. For all those who are too busy, too relaxed, or too lost to read themselves - don't miss this opportunity! Opportunity closed on Sundays.

Highly recommended travel reading material:
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino

IF ON A SUMMER'S DAY A TRAVELER by Gabrielle Johnson
- Anywhere
- The Second Revolution
- Revolution 2.6 B
- Revolution 2.9 C (The Escape)
- Cookies.txt
- More Cookies.txt
- A Very Tiny Trip To Paris
- A Very Tiny Trip from Paris
- A Short Swedish Summer
- Scandinavian Photography
- The Effect of 16th Century Estonian on the Blood Pressure of the Contemporary Internet User
- The Bank of Merano
- Cyprus Dreaming
- Hadera - Check!
- Chag Sameach - Happy Holidays!
- Kalifornia Karma
- Los Angeles Viewpoints
- Alaska (A Very Short Short Story)
- Lost in Snow

Shady Characters (Versions available in four languages)
- German Version (Original)
- English Version
- Cimmerian Version
- Japanese Version
- Finnish Version (To be published soon)

Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Stefano Benni
- Spirits

Yossel Birstein
- The Passion to tell a Story

Italo Calvino
- Invisible Cities

Fritjof Capra
- The Tao of Physics

Lewis Carroll
- Alice in Wonderland

Umberto Eco
- The Island of the Day Before

Michael Ende
- The Neverending Story

Franz Kafka
- The Castle

Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

W.G. Sebald
- Vertigo