This time tomorrow I'll be on a plane heading to Israel in a circuitous route for a much needed vacation in Israel. It appears that the weather in Israel had turned from sunny and hot into a real winter so that we won't feel too bad comparing the weather of Israel and Ireland. The Haaretz forecast says there will actually be rain, of which I had enough here.

We will escape the empty Maynooth of Christmas for the split personality (Rehovot/Carmiel) of Hanukka with the families, for some much needed stuffing with home-made Sufganiyot and other not-necessarily-related-to-Hanukka foods.

A union with a newly purchased Canon 350D is also much expected :-)
This will replace a Canon Elan7 film camera of which pictures that the local development shop manages to screw the image scanning and creates washed-out colours.