King David

This is the travelogue of a dream-come-true trip I took in 2005 with my son David. The year before my daughter had taken a tour to Egypt. Her enthusiasm and photos convinced me that Dave and I had to do the same. We couldn't find a tour that gave us enough ...

... more time here. I will head straight to the ER to get an MRI of my left leg when I get back home. We go to the King David Hotel for breakfast, It comes highly recommended by my friend P., who still raves about it. Sure enough, it is worth it: so many ...

The first stop of the day was King David City. This is a very large restoration of the original site of the city established by King David over 3000 years ago, just south of the Old City. You can take guided tours or wander around by yourself, so of ...

... . Walked back from main bus terminal through Orthodox Jewish quarter. They discourage picture taking hence no photos. Then went to King David Hotel and had a glass of wine on the spacious veranda with a nice but not spectacular view. Scenes from ...

... http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/lobo/excursions/1266327384/tpod.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David  Destination no. 5 of 8 (in no particular order) Part 4 ...

... raid on our sister hostel finds us some Vegemite - most exciting!! Wednesday and were moving on. Boat to Almirate and bus to David (Dave, Chris, Andrea, Gareth and Rob). A little anarchy on where we are going, but the bossies wins and we are staying ...

... of Israel.  The first thing David did as king was take Jerusalem from the Jebusites and establish it as the new capital city.  King David reigned from here for the rest of his life (33 years).  The second thing David did as king was to go ...

... fortified hilltop city of Jerusalem. Later, around 1000 BC, it was one of the last walled cities that remained out of King David's control. So confident were the Jebusites of their impregnable walls, and the secret shaft they'd sunk to the their water ...

... 's Old City and just south of the Temple Mount.  Some people refer to the City of David as the Older City because King David established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in this location before the city was expanded to the area of today's Old ...

... below the upper hill near the Walled City center. Down 20 meters to where they found the early remnants of King David's palace overlooking the Kidron Valley well below the established Walls of Jerusalem today. We see also ...

... about 15 to 20 minutes and is certainly not recommended for  the claustrophobic sufferers amongst us.  This is the way that King David entered and conquered the city. We then had a few hours off before our next walk about in the Jewish quarter ...

... to move about 50m! Once we were inside...David's statue was breathtaking.. "First unveiled in 1504, Michaelangelo portrays the young king David at the moment that he decides to engage Goliath. Once merely a 17-foot tall chunk of marble, Michelangelos ...

... who were getting the big bucks in the name of poor science by making assumptions that what they were finding was King David's Palace, among other things, Alphie by contrast described himself as secular and rational. Much of the funding for archaeology ...

... to check it out.  The directions were fairly easy.  Get on any collectivo heading to Bocas, about an hour outside of David you go through a yellow toll booth, about 3 mins later you should see three big yellow stones - you have then arrived at ...

... into Costa Rica and had the shock of our lives when we stepped off the bus in Liberia, northern Costa Rica, to find a Burger King, a TFI Fridays and a KFC all within 50 metres. We were only about an hour and a half away from the border with Nicaragua but ...

... need of a live aboard, look up these guys, or if you need tickets/visas/anything when in Bangkok, look up Dave, tell him you know David and Lucy, and he will look after you, or, you could just join us on the next trip on board. Dive 28 - King Cruiser ...

... as the sun tries to burn through the clouds. Hot soup at lunch warms us up and we then go to a historic lecture from David about the Endurance voyage by Shackleton entitled ´You will be the first to be eaten´. What Shackleton said when he found a ...

... a reactive movement promoting the virtues of quality produce and 'slow’ food, it’s also the home of Barolo, the ‘King of Wines’, white truffles, and Nutella.  All the basic food groups covered! We stayed at Hotel Langhe, on ...

... only hook the 2 of them up with the passes, but at least they invited me to join them for a gig downtown to catch King Khan, which I suppose was the next best thing. No, my first 3 days of wandering about Shanghai really weren't more coherent than that ...