Very near the Antonia Fortress is the Pools of Bethesda. Right next to the pools of Bethesda is St Anne’s Cathedral. This is one of the few cathedrals that was not destroyed by the Muslims after the Byzantine Era because…
I decided this was as good a place as any to let everyone who cares to know such things, that I visited a shop in the Old City of Jerusalem, just inside the Jaffa Gate, that has been there since…
So there is a building on the top of Mt Zion that was built well after the destruction of Jerusalem in 90AD that is a memoriam for the Last Supper. Truth be told, the place where it would have been…
Our last stop for day 3 is the Shepherd’s Field where the multitude of angels announced Jesus birth to the shepherds, keeping watch over their flocks by night. So this area is, of course, not far from the nativity spot,…
So it’s the end of day three, New Year’s Eve!! Well, as I type this, it is now New Years Day here in Jerusalem!!! Happy New Year everyone! I was too tired after supper tonight to do anything other than…
Well, we made it! What a marathon. We’ve been up for I don’t know how many hours, but still haven’t slept yet. We arrived safely, took us awhile to get through the line to have our passports checked, but then…
We have arrived safely in Vienna! Whoa was that a long flight. We stood up and walked and went to the bathroom one time for about five minutes, the rest of the 8.5 hours we were seated, sardined in. Evan…
The morning went smoothly, even though neither one of us could sleep much with the excitement! We are at the airport now, eating lunch at Granite City. We got through the first, most lenient of our checkpoints, and had our…