Our Last Supper in Jerusalem

Dear reader, Here is a quick photo summary of our adventures so far...but we do have to mention three scoops 1) A bedouin in Masada offered 4 camels for Bernadette however Vasant wanted 5.... 2) first Johnny Depp and now a close encounter with Kevin Rudd at the King David hotel in Jerusalem. We shook his hand and had several pictures taken by the official photographer.... 3) In an ultra conservative Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem , Bernadette had cold coffee thrown at her legs because she was immodestly showing her knees....Undeterred by all these events the travelling Naboteans are now off to have their last supper in Jerusalem.
Shalom!

Place of Jesus' birth marked by star with 14 points (Above)

(Right) Waiting at the Church of the Nativity while our tour guide did a deal to get us on the Armenian short line rather than the Greek Orthodox long line to see the cave where Jesus was born



(Below) Something happened after the birth of the Prince of Peace - lots of security and a fence separating the Palestinians and Israelis at Bethlehem


Entrance to the Field of Shepherds church (below)

(Above) Not all is love and peace at Bethlehem but people seem to be doing their best to get on with their lives

(Below) More security getting into Bethlehem

Vasant at the Church of Nativity with Bethlehem in background (below)

(Above)Original entrance to the Church of the Nativity (Below) Place of the manger

(Above) Place of the Last Supper - tree of life with the wheat and the wine

(Above)Mural in the Church of the Field of Shephards











(Above) Look mummy no hands...floating in the Dead Sea (Israel) Photo of Bernadette will be published at the next available opportunity....:)

(Above) Via Dolorosa Jerusalem (Below) Entrance to the Garden of Gethsemene (Olive Press)

(Above) Dome of the Rock Jerusalem - third holiest place for Moslems

(Above) Lot's wife who turned to salt (Jordan)

(Above) Our lunch feast just outside the Old City of Jerusalem

(Above) Western (wailing wall) Jerusalem - the holiest place for Jewish people. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (the holiest place for Christians) will be published soon in the interests of religious tolerance:)

(Above) The Wailing Wall and the Dome of the Rock in the background

(Above) Dead Sea - Jordan