Hashimi Hotel

... the New Imperial Hotel after 3 nights. I will talk more about the New Imperial Hotel in a later post. I picked the Hashimi Hotel because they were very responsive to my emails. Sometime the reply was instantaneous. While the New Imperial Hotel never ...

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... with machine guns stood in groups at strategic points throughout the Old City...watching. We stayed in the Muslim Quarter at the Hashimi Hotel. It was not expensive, small rooms and adequate breakfast. Fine for us. The best thing about it was the ...

... narrow and closed in area of shops--a stunning variety of goods for sale. This was the Muslim Quarter. Finally we found the Hotel Hashimi. We were buzzed in, welcomed by a very nice English speaking man dressed in bright white robes and invited to go ...

Jerusalem is an amazing city, and the Old Town is just breath taking. Alex and I were staying at a hostel called El Hashimi, right by the Damascus Gate. Beautiful sunrise views over the Golden Dome of the mosque and Mount of the Olives from their roof ...

... in the world) down several flights of stairs, through a very busy open-air market, and up several flights of stairs into our hotel) ... just picture chaos! We had enough time to check in and throw our bags down before heading to our next meeting at the ...

... is so old and so unlike anything we have seen so far. We stop to ask the way to the Lutheran Hospice and are told where another hotel is. We continue up the walkway and to the right as it does divide up the way. The man who told us comes and shows us ...

... details in the honey colored walls of Jerusalem. We stayed up there for a long while...looking at the graves, the city, our hotel, and the Golden Gate which is sealed shut. On the way back down, we stopped at the garden around Dominus Flevit (which ...

... = Friday, Jewish = Saturday, Christian = Sunday)" Can't tell you how much we loved that rooftop! We wished that the hotel had served some refreshments up there--juices, coffees, something! We might have stayed up there feeding the stray cats, ...

... broadcast across the world on Christmas Eve. We walked around the grounds a bit and stopped for a coffee at the Casa Nova Palace hotel. We spent some time in a gift shop--picking up some olive wood ornaments in a 14 point star shape. On the way ...

The Jewish Quarter is a very small area of the Old City, and is much more modern. Over the years, this area has been occupied, emptied, re-established, evacuated, destroyed--and over the past 40 years reconstructed. On our first night in Jerusalem, ...

On our very first night in Jerusalem, we visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall. Both were quiet with only a few visitors. In the next few days, we would return to both. On that first night, we walked slow and quiet through ...