I've gone a bit quiet over the last couple of weeks - there's much to update you on! I think I left matters at our pilgrim hostel in The Galilee. It's a lovely area. So tranquil in fact that the Bible stories about storms on the Sea of Galilee seemed a little far fetched - until a storm suddenly blew up one night and you could see that it would be rather unpleasant to be out on the water. Our white car also got caked in mud as dirt blew in.
We visited the classic sites where significant things are said to have happened (apart from Capernaum, which is an impressive ruin, there is the usual guesswork going on). Either way, Jesus was pretty active in the region and you can see how the references to him walking from one place to another (and taking time out in the fields) all fit together.
We also popped into Tsfat (well, that's one transliteration, but there are plenty of others - Hebrew there's no standard way of writing Hebrew names in English), it's the home of Kaballah, which I'm told Madonna is very fond of. You can only imagine how much the Lonely Planet loves the home of Jewish mysticism - positively salivating. It's actually a nice town up in the hills, which has memories of the time which led to the creation of the State of Israel. There's a staircase which the British built to keep the Jews and Arabs apart. We didn't see all that many Arabs during our visit there.
Eve's culinary highlight came on the way home from Tsfat - a goats cheese farm down a dirt track which served platters containing ten homemade goats cheeses and other goodies.
We visited the classic sites where significant things are said to have happened (apart from Capernaum, which is an impressive ruin, there is the usual guesswork going on). Either way, Jesus was pretty active in the region and you can see how the references to him walking from one place to another (and taking time out in the fields) all fit together.
We also popped into Tsfat (well, that's one transliteration, but there are plenty of others - Hebrew there's no standard way of writing Hebrew names in English), it's the home of Kaballah, which I'm told Madonna is very fond of. You can only imagine how much the Lonely Planet loves the home of Jewish mysticism - positively salivating. It's actually a nice town up in the hills, which has memories of the time which led to the creation of the State of Israel. There's a staircase which the British built to keep the Jews and Arabs apart. We didn't see all that many Arabs during our visit there.
Eve's culinary highlight came on the way home from Tsfat - a goats cheese farm down a dirt track which served platters containing ten homemade goats cheeses and other goodies.
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