So I'm back in Jerusalem and today I went to Yad Vashem. it is a Holocaust memorial on a hill here for the 6mil jews killed in the Holocaust. The main triangular building covers the whole thing from the start through the second world war till the end. I found it a bit hard to follow, at times there are 3 different TVs you can hear and try to follow. Most of it is in german or Hebrew, with subtitles. There is some very graphic film and photos. The Hall of Names wa...

Another tour today and again to the north but this time to the Lebanon border. A late start at 8.30, lucky cos I was a bit seedy this morning. Karen and I drank a bottle of port last night. First stop was Mt Precipice. It had great views of Nazareth and the Yizrael valley. Second stop was an olive press. Well this old lady gave us a talk about Eco friendly building that they have and eco this and that. Eco was nearly every second word. The bit about the actual ol...

Haha No I still didn't get there but I got pretty close. At Mt Bental I was standing on the UN trenches and I could see the fence for the border. I could see the border crossing I couldn't use and I could see what was left of Deriq and the new city built in its place. The ********s at ISIL bombed a kindy in Damascus (the oldest capitol city in the world) last week and they are advancing on Bagdad so I will probably never get to see these places.

Today I am on a local one day tour and I am doing the same again tomorrow. it turns out the other people were on the bus yesterday and we are mostly at the same hostel. We went up through Tiberius, Capharnaum and Tabgha to the Sea of Galilee. This is the area where Jesus did some of his best work, turn water into wine, walk on water etc. Further north is the Golan heights, probably one of the most disputed pieces of land on the planet. Israel grabbed it off Syri...

I walked to the bus this morning at 6am in shorts and T shirt. The weather here is great. Today they recon it got to 39 but I didn't think it was not that bad. It is supposed to be like that all week. The bus here came through Caesarea and stopped there for about an hour. Caesarea was an important port in its day but has been long since used. the theatre has been totally wrecked cos they put some bars up and a modern stage in the front. The place is made of limes...