Safed / Tsvet was even more confusing to me. The concierge at Abraham Hostels told me to not worry about it. The different spellings stem from whether the speaker is Arab or Jewish and that no one takes offense how a foreigner pronounces it.
I asked him how to get there. He looked at the mooveit app and came up with a simpler plan than I was finding through Google directions -- walk to a giant mall and take a direct bus for about 90 minutes.
I'm sorry to say I was disappointed by Safed.
Mostly I wandered around the town.
I had a vegetarian lunch at the Lonely Planet recommended Elements. In hindsight I should have had a bigger lunch since I was returning to Kibbutz food, but at the time I was still full from the enormous breakfast I had at my hotel in Nazareth.
Perhaps the hardest part of navigating Safed was the lack of English. Many signs were in Hebrew only. It also did not help the tourist booth was closed.
I am glad I went. I did enjoy wandering around the street with shops and seeing the various Judaica for sale from Mezuzahs to yarmulkes to menorahs, plus jewelry and art.
I did buy myself a pair of delicate silver earrings with a blue Roman stone which will always remind me of my time in Israel.
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