Ashdod, Israel

H's Notes We awoke as the ship berthed in Ashdod and watched as a seemingly endless procession of buses began to make its way on to the docks. Our passports had been checked by the Israelis on board and we were given them back yesterday with a loose shore ...

... from all over the world - I went up Israel till we were near Jerusalem again. From there, we took the bus to a beach near Ashdod. A big festival, the Boombamela, had been going on and we cleaned up the trash that 20,000 teenagers left there on the beach.

... incredible space. It left me wondering how many other caves were left undiscovered in these hills. After we went to Mini Israel - an architecture model builder's dream of all the famous sites in Israel at about 100th scale. A contrast between antiquity and ...

Another shore excursion. First stop was the lookout point (The Garden of Gethsemane) where most news reports take their footage from when showing the old city of Jerusalem. The Garden of Gethsemane was where Jesus and his disciples hid from the Romans and ...