Daily Archives: January 5, 2023

This evening  we skipped dinner at the hotel to go with a small group of adventuresome friends back to the fun Jewish Market to give them a taste of life outside the tour bus, which is all they’ve known. I … Continue reading →

Here is the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.  It’s a little hard to figure out where the front is.  Below is a diagram of what’s where inside the church. This was the line to get into the church through … Continue reading →

Here’s how modern-day Bethlehem looks with its rolling hills.  Our next stop was dinner! We went to a place called “The Tent,” to eat, a Lebanese Bedouin place.  They brought out baskets of pita with lots of things to dip … Continue reading →

After visiting the Western Wall (we had about 30 min there), our guide took the group to Temple Mount, then the Southern excavations. Since we’d visited those places last week, the 4 of us decided to go to the Temple … Continue reading →

Today is my 64th birthday and our last day in Israel.  This group we have joined will spend a few days now in Jerusalem and late tonight we will head to the airport to fly home.  We are sad to … Continue reading →