Mount of Olives Hotel

Jerusalem and finally we learned not to arrive in peak hour traffic. Had some difficulty in finding the hotel at the Mount of Olives. Actually we had trouble finding the Mount of Olives (large hill beside the old city; been mapped for several thousand ...

... cemetery had been placed here so that it would become a filthy place for the Jews who were expecting the Messiah on the Mount of Olives but this cemetery was something else.   Full of trash, broken bottles,  signs all over of recent trash ...

All week long, we've looked over at the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem. We've seen the hillside of graves from the ramparts, from the rooftops, from the Lutheran Tower. On Saturday, it was time to go over there--getting there early enough to watch the ...

... of just how gigantic the Temple Mount really is and saw the full scope of the fortified walls encircling old Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives is packed with Christian sites, so we set out to visit a few.  Gethsemane Garden, where Jesus prayed before ...

... mistakenly stuck on it all the way down from the top floor this morning).  This morning we visit the Mount of Olives, then Bethlehem in the afternoon. We begin with the 4th c.. church commemorating Jesus' Ascension, deeded ...

... where Jesus was to have healed a man in the garden area. We then went out Lion's Gate and over to the Mount of Olives. This is the site where Jesus was betrayed. There is the beautiful Church of Gethsemane with the rock where Jesus prayed inside ...

... that crud over here. I haven’t even found that phrase ('lite’ ‘light’ etc) in my translation book! Olives fall from the tree branches  into netting which hangs below the branches but off the ground. When the olives fall, ...

Mount of Olives The first half of the afternoon was spent on the Mount of Olives. We started with the old crusader Church of Mary. The Orthodox believe it is the site of Mary's tomb and Joseph's tomb. Next was the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of ...

... nbsp; camping in an olive grove provides great shade from the heat of the sun, but in wind and rain the sound of hard olives falling on to a caravan roof is a tad disturbing.  Secondly, being a seasonal Greek site not much attention had been paid to ...

... the other hill! It is beautiful. Although it is all mostly sand and rocks. The trees along the way are olive trees! I love those olives, but they have to be pickled. We are in and out of the clouds and sunshine the rest of the way. The wind just ...

... sense of place, for we have not seen anything like it anywhere we have traveled.  The views facing the Old City, Mount of Olives and the Hinnom Valley are truly special, particularly as the light changes throughout the day.  We can walk to most ...

Sad to say we are leaving our delightful room at the Mount of Olives Hotel. Off to Eilat and Jordan today! Didn't get lost in Jerusalem leaving did get lost at the junction to highway 40 going south and went via the terminal 1 carpark at Ben Gurion ...

At this stage would settle for a one armed paperhanger to do something about this dreadful hotel room. Off to Bethlehem and Palestine this morning on a minibus tour. The bus was roughly on time (a Mercedes mini-bus) and we then went and collected ...

... invaded by a horde of German tourists. Good food and cheaper than yesterdays falafels! Seemed a long hot walk back up to the hotel, still no visit from the interior decorators. Sue's story: Today we took a minibus tour to Bethlehem and Palestine with a ...

... took a quick peak into the Gardens of  Gethsame (that's where Jesus went to meditate before the Romans grabbed him).  The olives trees in that garden are over 2000 years old.  Beautiful tour; got sucked in to going to souvenir shop in the ...

... times.  We saw several Jewish families visiting the cemetery and praying over various graves.  Christians recognize the Mount of Olives for several things.  It is where he preached, cried over Jerusalem, was betrayed and arrested, and ...

... since Jesus enjoyed it  2000 years ago.  After a quick room allocation at the Legacy we headed back up the Mount of Olives for a celebration dinner at a little restaurant that was like an Aladdins cave hidden behind a scruffy garage. We had ...

... Marking the site is the magnificent Basilica of Agony, a Franciscan church surrounded by gardens of olive trees.  From the Mount of Olives we walked through a massive Jewish cemetery toward the City of David, which is just south east of the Old ...

... .  The Garden of Gethsemane was a garden predominately filled with very old, and therefore very large, olive trees which had olives on them that appeared ripe.  It was smaller than I would have guessed.  About the size of the average ...

... harvest, the olives are too bitter to eat.  They must first go through several salt water baths which will preserve the olives for several years.  For immediate consumption, they are boiled in salt water.  Most of the olives are ...