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Ten days in the Negev in July (with the family)

Anne and Pascal are a French couple, she is a psychologist, he a doctor, they have three teenage children and their lives are fairly intense as you can imagine. 

The two of them have been coming to us every year for the past four years as a total escape. They stay on average for five nights, they come at different seasons, they are infinitely curious, they explore, they are delightful and we get on well with them. But when I received an email from Anne telling me that they had decided to come for ten days with the children in July, I almost panicked. 

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Krivine Guesthouse: the movie

For a long time now, we had been trying to get a video of the guesthouse. And after a few failed trials, we finally got it! I think Camilla from the Set film studio in Mitzpe Ramon did a great job in capturing the atmosphere of our place. For an editor of short movies, thrown in a place she doesn’t really know for just a few hours, it has to be the most difficult thing to do.

 

We can now check a few boxes in our to do list.

  • Face lifting for the South African and the French Apartment √
  • Video of the guesthouse √
  • Family holiday in Bretagne √
  • Get the French version of the blog up and going √

Left to be done

  • Get a photographer
  • Update the blog with new posts (we have been hiking a lot lately!)
  • Prepare for a new season in the Negev Highlands.

 

 

Har Avnon

Har Avnon is a short stopover on your drive from our guesthouse to the Dead Sea. It is a lookout that allows you to see the Big Crater – recently renamed Yeruham Crater – (which you are about to cross) in its entirety. Of course it’s not actually a crater but you already know that.

To get to it,

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Visiting the Negev in the Spring

Although every season is a good season to visit the Negev (see our post about winter and summer), spring is considered to be the best season to do so.

Spring in Israel is not a real season. It is still very much part of the winter when you have a difference between gorgeous days (the vast majority) and rainy days. February, March and April are the most popular months for visiting the Negev.  You have more chance of having gorgeous weather, between 20-25C, than say December or January. Although of course, there is no guarantee. Actually, this year, we had our first rain at the end of February and it has rained several times in March. Last year, the biggest floods occurred at the end of April…

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