I love our neighborhood, it is an amazing mixture of old and new. Our building itself is not new, but not too old; it is in a gated community within the Weizmann campus. Right across from us there are three luxury high-rise apartment buildings, with one more under construction.
Then, just down the street there is this "historic" area with a beautiful and quaint plaza where the "young at heart" sit at night and socialize (some of them even come out in their wheelchairs). There are also a few really old run down buildings that stick out like an old hand-made quilt among fine silk. Both are beautiful in their own way, but look kind of funny right up against each other.
Just around the corner from this historic area there are a few luxury condos with secured entrance and gated parking.
About five more blocks up, you'll find Herzl Street. This main street in Rehovot has almost every kind of business you could ever need. There are restaurants, boutiques, book stores, there is also a "paper" store (local mom-and-pops version of Home Depot), a grocery store and a pharmacy.
Anabelle and I walk up to Herzl on a daily basis and get a good work out. There are even a few street vendors who specialize in tantrum provocation, I mean children's toys. That's Anabelle's favorite part. I must admit, one of my favorite places is a brick-oven pizza place where we have pizza night every Thursday right before doing our grocery shopping for the week.
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