Jerusalem Inns - Reviews and Rates

Today we visited the Knesset and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum of Israel. More about Yad Vashem later. The Knesset was closed for recess so we went all the way up there for nothing. We did see four fighter jets fly over while we were standing there. They were in formation and did a big loop-d-loop right there above us. Mom was in the...

Israel is, for lack of a more descriptive word, amazing. A friend of mine once told me that you can feel the age of the earth while you are there, and well she was right. (thanks Julie K. for the Israel travel tips) Israel was surreal in the same was that Jordan was. Four thousands years of history, seemingly limitless sights, and a truly cultur...

I was enjoying a cup of coffee-hot chocolate (instant mocha) and chatting with Kareem. Kareem was a surly bloke with almost no patience, and he ran our hostel. I didn't know this as I was drinking my coffee, but shortly my comfort was squeezed. He asked what my husband did, and I said he was an engineer. Ah, my cousin is an engineer. There are a...

As the memorial was starting in the afternoon we decided to use the morning to pay our respects at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Jerusalem, see www.yadvashem.org. It has recently been enlarged with a new museum and other areas which, if good is a word that can be used to describe such a place, is an amazingly good memorial to ...

Been to Rio, been to Mexico City, been to Moscow, been to New York, London, Paris, etc, Jerusalem is one of a kind and must see! This is sort of the opposite of New York - the un-melting pot of the world, where people of all religions live together and hate each other - all because of a rock that's allegedly holly. It is fascinating! I am so ign...

We marked a whole day out for Jerusalem, and got an early start (10:30 or so) with my cousin who lived there for two years. We drove around Mt. Scopus and Mt. of Olives to the Dung Gate (one of the six gates around the walled old city of Jerusalem) and parked the car in metered parking for 2 hours. We walked to the gate, which is the closest to ...

The Land of Milk and Honey... After the ungodly conditions at the Paris airport Israel does indeed seem like the land of milk and honey. At least my bed did last night. I arrived in Jerusalem about 1:30am Monday morning and was dropped at my hotel just inside Jaffa gate of the Old City. After unpacking and taking a much needed shower - in a 1x1 ...

So much has happened in the past four days, so I'll try to break these emails up into a few so that you can read them at your leisure. So I left you last on Thursday in the afternoon. The evening turned out to be quite interesting. We had the evening free and so about 7 of us girls decided to make an improptu trip to Jerusalem. It was quite an a...