Continuing on in Israel……sorry for the delay. I was not too happy with WordPress’s “Happiness Engineers,” the entire month of December I had trouble logging into my blog. Moving on! Our guide is a tall, muscular, no-nonsense kind of guy……Arab, Christian, Israeli………..he looked and acted like he could have been IDF at one point, or…
Category: Mediterranean
Caesarea National Park, Israel: Part Two
These are more photos taken at the Caesarea National Park in Caesarea, Israel……. The park encompasses an area around the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima, constructed during the reign of Herod the Great around 10-9 BCE. The city was fortified by the Romans, early Christians, Muslims, and then again by Christian Crusaders. To learn about…
Caesarea National Park; Caesarea, Israel
Today, we are in the Caesarea National Park, right along the water’s edge in Caesarea, Israel. The park is huge and it is HOT, so we welcomed the sea breezes. It is quite the place, but the story of Herod and all that went on here is even more fascinating! Caesarea became known in the…
Elijah and the Baals and Now the Baha’i and Carmelites: All at Mount Carmel
Of all the places we visited in Israel, to me, Mount Carmel, was the most beautiful! So much has gone on here, I hardly know where to start! Mount Carmel, (which means mountain of gardens) is mentioned as a “holy mountain,” in Egyptian records from the 16th century BCE. As a “high place,” it had…
Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth?
Today, we are in Nazareth, a city in Galilee… Looking at this illustration of Nazareth, by David Roberts, we can see, Nazareth, was a small town and it is said that in Jesus time there were only forty or fifty people living there. Nazareth, set in a small basin, was surrounded by hills and was…
The City of Tiberias to Yardenit: Baptism of Jesus
I’m starting out, today, with a map of Israel, so you can see where we have been and where we are going. Now, we are driving along the Sea of Galilee. When I focused in on the map, I was surprised to also see the sites of public bomb shelters…….it is a way of life…
Haifa to the Sea of Galilee and the Garden of Loaves and Fishes
Getting off the ship, we are at the port in Haifa and a small group of us are now touring Israel for a week together. Our guide is an Israeli Arab Christian. I did not know there were Israelis, who are Arabs or that there are Arabs that are Christians. There is a lot to…
Thursday Doors: Moving On to Israel
We had spent over a month on the cruise ship and visited a lot of ports and cities……..but I feel like I should jump ahead to our last stop, since so much is going on in that region now, and then go back to the islands again. We got off the ship in Ashdod, Israel…
Thursday Doors: Rhodes, Greece
We’re walking down Ippoton Street on the island of Rhodes, Greece. These last few posts have been all about the time of the Crusaders and the Order of Saint John in Rhodes. For more insight on what we have seen so far, LOOK HERE, and HERE and HERE. There are doors in all those posts…
The Palace of the Grand Master: Rhodes, Greece
Today, we are visiting the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights. If you would like to know what we have seen so far and the history of the Order of Saint John, LOOK HERE The Palace is a medieval castle in the Old City of Rhodes. It is an example of Gothic architecture…
The Knights of St John in Rhodes, Greece
We’ve made it to the top of the hill in the old town of Rhodes and before we go any further, I think I will have a watermelon juice, minus the vodka, please….. and while drinking that I looked over the flowers…… then we were fortified and ready to walk through one of the gates………of…
Getting to the Shore of Rhodes, Greece
Today, we are in Rhodes, Greece and for orientation, we are northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens and just off the Anatolian coast of Turkey. Rhodes is also the largest of the Dodecanese Islands, in terms of land area, and also the island group’s historical capitol. The nickname for Rhodes is The Island of Knights,…
Pafos Port and City, near Limassol, Cyprus
Just so you don’t think we spent every hour hiking or looking at tiles, todays jaunt will be at the port city at Pathos. There was a beautiful clear, clear, clear water beach front……… and nice mid-sized boats…….. and one boat that looked like a pirate ship……. and a pier full of fake snakes and…
Nea Pafos Archaeological Site: Limassol, Cyprus
Walk past the clock and you are directly in front of the Paphos Archaeological Park. Today, we are exploring the park that contains the major part of the important ancient Greek and Roman city in Pathos, located in southwest Cyprus. The sites and monuments here, date from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages. The most…
The Kings Tombs in Cyprus
Get out your hiking boots we are on a mission today! We are going to the Tomb of the Kings near Limassol, Cyprus. But, before we made it here, choices had to be made concerning Cyprus…… you see….. On July 15, 1974, the Greek military carried out a coup d’état, in order to unite…
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