Very enjoyable. I've only been in Tel Aviv during the hot dry weather you talked about, so its interesting to see it looking like Seattle!
I haven't shot any video with my Nex yet. But it sort of constantly blows my mind that I have four cameras at the moment, and EVERY one of them (down to the LX-5) is capable of mind-bogglingly better video than the enormous video camera I used to shoot video of our daughters while they were growing up. They're in their early 20s now and in the late '80s and early '90s the quality of video had gotten pretty good, but digital, let alone HD were still just glimmers in some inventors' eyes. And now I could take better video with an iPhone. Amazing.
-Ray