Here are photos of our walking tour of a small part of Jerusalem:the Western Wall,The Old City and the Knesset. Also, some National Geographic style pics of gruesome open air meat market offerings. ew. Adam took those. I deleted an image of a tub of brains. I couldn’t take it.
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To see some random snaps go to Israel Assorted album.
Tag: Travel
Dogs of Israel
While Adam and I were in Israel we made some friends. We missed our dog a lot but these guys kept us company.
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Back from Israel
We’re back safe and sound.
Our trip went really well even though the dollar had fallen a few points or cents or whatever against the shekel since we’d been last year…but according to my bank statement I only spent about 800 hundred bucks(and a 3rd of that was in airports). So we were still able to live it up in the holy land. We went to Jerusalem where I saw the Old City and the Wailing Wall, Israelis call it the Western Wall and religious types walk away from it backward after they’ve prayed and left a letter.
In Jerusalem we also saw Jesus’s Tomb and Adam and our guide Ofer got a sudden fit of the giggles inside the tiny space. I’m not religious and was only interested in it in a historical way but it was still a little embarrassing. Everyone else was taking it so seriously and they were weirded out by it I guess.
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Going to Israel
My boyfriend and I are going to Israel on Monday. He’s from there, by the way,so we will be staying with his parents at Kibbutz Shamir. The last time we went was a week after the war last summer. We had a wedding we had to go to so we ignored the Katushas and the cries of woe from my family and booked our flight. I’d never been anywhere overseas except England and Ireland and not since the freakin 80’s!
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