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A Jesus day

A travel blog entry by mrsmac

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This was a very long day but we visited many places all to do with the New Testament. We left Jerusalem at 6-15am and drove to Tel Aviv where we changed cars and set off for the day. We were a small group again. There was a young woman, Teiko, from Tokyo and a lovely young couple, Rebecca and Bram originally from Melbourne but working as lawyers in London at the moment. Our guide was Jacob who certainly let us know how much he knew. He told us he had two PhDs, ...

Much too short a time in the much too holy city

A travel blog entry by markdavidwalsh

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... br> I was luck enough to stay with the Sisters of Sion at Ecce Homo on the Via Dolorosa in the Old City. This helped with exercise as it was a 30 minute uphill walk to the German Colony for meetings with Bat Kol. This also helped offset the lovely Taybeh beer that I discovered. I first stayed with the Sisters here in 2000 and always enjoy coming back to spend time with them. They do wonderful work running the pilgrim house ...

In the footsteps of Jesus -- Day 3

A travel blog entry by aliceatfr

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... we were leaving people were walking up this narrow (loose gravel) road to attend services.

After all photos were taken we continued on the road to our next stop, Nazareth. Nazareth is where Jesus grew up. The population of this city is interesting because 2/3s are Muslims and 1/3 Christians. We visited the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation, which is reportedly to be the ...

Savaldi Reunion & Tiyul to the Tel

A travel blog entry by elansarah

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... to chop vegetables, we had to prepare the pub to our liking, we had to schlep all the food over from the house to the pub, etc. Loads of fun.

So the Savaldi clan descended upon Gezer, and everyone loved it (see pix!). I was told that the last time they were all together like that might have been Elan's bar mitzvah. We all know that was ages and ages ago... ;) We ate good food, laughed a lot, and went to bed at a reasonable ...

Busting through the border to Bethlehem

A travel blog entry by jimstephkrueger

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... to another guide and he takes us to Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity. We bend down to almost crawl though the entrance - which is such so that people on horses could not enter the chuch. It must be effective as I don't see many people on horses trying to breach the entrance. There are three churches contained inside - One Armenian - one Greek Orthodox and one Franciscan.


We pass through another set of doors - built by the ...

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