Oooo, just realized the Rome marathon starts/finishes at the Colosseum. Cooooolllllll.....
Anyways, the reason I'm back and blogging this fine morning is to post a couple pics from Israel. Damn good time, really had fun and can't wait to go back. Ok, ok, so... some pics.
This here is an Orthodox church, located right on the Sea of Galilee. We got there, the outside was full of gardens, all full of chickens, cats, peacocks and a sleepy dog. Oh yeah, there was a donkey somewhere too, you could here it making donkey sounds; anyways... Ok so this is main "room" of the church, we got there during a small service of some kind and snuck into the back of the room to watch. Nice people, no one cared that we were obviously there to take pics. Really have to say that this place made me decide that Orthodox churches are cooler.
Ok, what else...
Here's the Western Wall or Wailing Wall, you choose the name you like... Cool place, never went up and touched it though, we stood back and watched the people there for a little while. Normally this place would have been crazy busy but we got there on an "off-day" I suppose.The Old City of Jerusalem was cool, so much more there and in the rest of the city I'll have to go back and see. We went to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (where the J-man was supposedly crucified, got a pic, see later), walked around the city walls, saw lots of cats, wandered through the souk (a bit smelly), oooooo, and I had my first Turkish coffee! I liked it, gonna see where I can get one here in Edinburgh. :)
You can't see it in this photo but right above the wall is the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim holy site, supposedly their 3rd holiest. It is very "golden" lets say, big dome, lots of gold. Shiny too. I've got it on my desktop at the moment.
So, moving on...
Here we have the very place (supposedly, according to an American tourist we asked) the many a Christian believes Jesus was crucified. Lots of art all over the walls, lots of silver, lots of shrines, very crowded compared to other parts of the church. This place was big, some of the downstairs parts were more like caves though. Surprisingly, for its size it's really hard to find! We walked by it and then got sent back to what seemed like a little alleyway full of shops. Never would have thought that a church of this size and significance would have been down this little alleyway.Ok, hmmm, I also really liked Akko, going to put a pic from Akko up next. :) Ok, also really like the Golan Heights and the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) so I'll put a pic of the lake itself too.
Here comes Akko (Acre) is first place, followed by the Kinneret from the Golan Heights in
second...
I have so many pics from Akko, it was hard to choose a favourite, and they're all so different... Oh well you'll all have to see them next time I visit Canada. But... this is from the wall at Akko, looking in towards the Old City there. Big mosque, went there, me and Ariel (Sharon's friend, and a cool guy) were gonna go in for a peek but it was Friday... there was a service and well... we just didn't feel right popping in at that moment. But, Akko was great, went to the souk, had wicked hummus, saw all the Crusader ruins was great. I can talk about all this stuff for far too long so I'll cut myself off here. Ok, last pic, the Kinneret aka the Sea of Galilee. As seen from the Golan Heights.
The view from up here were great, you could probably see north to Lebanon and then I think just about to Syria too. South of us was Jordan and to the west was the Sea of Galilee with Tiberias (the town in the pic) across the lake. Had a crazy lunch there in Tiberias. :) Sooo much food.
Beautiful weather, as you can see; didn't ever really have a bad day. Rained once I think... yeah, it did, but not even for long.
So in conclusion... ha ha ha, sounds like a poorly written lab report... I will go back there again. :) Not only was the place beautiful but Sharon's there; can't wait to go back and spend LOTS more time with ya Beautiful! :) Ok, well, I should get on with my day, lots to do!
Ooooo, just to show off before I go, my phone number in my made up
Engbrew words is: esef-sheva-sheva-shtiim-shesh-arba-arba-ehad-hamesh-shmone-hamesh.
Ok, I'm a nerd, I know it, and I really gotta go...
Later!
Dave
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