Port Fairy is a lovely little town, it’s not only the home to much art and craft but also has some fascinating history. Around 1828 Captain Wishart anchored in a little bay away from the storm when daybreak came he found himself in the mouth of a little river and called it ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
We did our normal and went away for a few days, and as normal I didn’t tell you and just kept the writing rolling…the wonders of wifi internet. If you follow me on Facebook you might have noticed a drop off of sharing but only if you weren’t totally involved ...
Some beauty and some practical stuff today. Bahai Gardens in Haifa These are the Bahai Gardens in Haifa. They are just beautiful, lots of hard work and thought has gone into making these gardens. As we entered everyone was stopped and given instructions in the language of our choice, either Hebrew ...
I’d like to tell you I’m running out of photos of Israel for you but I suspect I’d be lying. Closed shops in The Old City The Old City in Jerusalem has so many little shops in it. It’s really hard to see where one finishes and another ends so I ...
Bookshelf, aptly named shop in Jerusalem Wish I’d had time to actually go inside this bookshop with its lovely name but we were on tour at that point and I didn’t want to hold people up. It looked very lovely. I was taken by this coffee cup We saw a ...
Mea culpa. During our tour of Israel we saw many churches and sites where Jesus had been. Before we our conference started we also did a tour of the tunnels under the Western Wall which included the area where Jesus would have overturned the money changers tables. Revolution! We saw so many ...
50 Shades and For Dummies As you know I’m horrified by the 50 Shades phenomenon, the writing is very poor and the BDSM is so wrong (I have this from a BDSM friend who talks about an escape word which does not appear to be evident) so I was not happy seeing this ...
Travelling through Israel was a reminder that it was still at war, there were so many different reminders and I’m going to illustrate some of it with just a few photos. barbed wire We travelled along the border on so many occasions, sometimes the border was the Dead Sea and ...
While I haven’t actually finished writing about Israel I’m going to take a small break today and tomorrow. I have three more topics to write about but I’m struggling to find the time to work through my photos and pull out the evidence for the topics. I might publish rather late ...
Moving pictures type camera This was part of an exhibition at Cinema City, I didn’t ask if they were real or props but I’m sure if you can zoom in without it pixelating too much you can read the description for yourself. Rides for the kiddiewinks at Cinema City There was ...
Today I’m looking at the plants we saw. Some are more interesting to other people than others so please bear with me. We had guided tours of two plant bearing areas, one was the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens by an ex-director of the Gardens and the other was by a plant enthusiast ...
Masada is another place in Israel in everyone’s hearts. The story is that the Sicarii rebels held out against the Romans for several years on Masada. The story we’ve held in our hearts is one of survival and suicide, but it seems the suicide isn’t quite as much as we’d thought. It was ...
Mount Nebo is the place of legend, Moses stood looking over Israel knowing he’d never get there. I know the story of the exodus from Egypt and I never quite understood why it took 40 years. Yes, they had a lot of people with them with the need to stop while babies were born or ...
In Jerusalem we stayed near a shopping mall called Cinema City. Our first trip there was an explosion of light and sound as they have cinemas there along with all the light, colour and advertisements they feel they need. We spent quite a bit of time there what with one meal ...
Qumran was made famous in recent years as the place where the Dead Sea Scrolls (this book looks as if it might give you some useful information and is relatively cheap) were found. It was a community around the time of Jesus and there is a chance he lived and studied there. They spent a lot ...