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Day 2 in Jerusalem: Friends Who Suffer Together Stay Together
After our walking tour I tagged along with two of my new friends to revisit some of the sites we had seen that morning. We headed back to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. I saw where the cross was...
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Day 4 in Jerusalem: The Shepherd’s Field in Bethlehem
I enjoyed my day out to the Dead Sea so much that as soon as I got back to the hostel I booked up for a tour of Bethlehem for the next day. I had only one more day of my holiday left and I wanted to...
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Day 4 in Jerusalem: Visiting the Birthplace of Jesus at the Church of the...
The Church of the Nativity is the must see site in Bethlehem. Built in 339 AD over the spot where Jesus was born, it is one of the oldest continuously operating churches, surviving years of turmoil,...
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Day 4 in Jerusalem: Away in a Manger (Square)
So good it almost deserves its own post Manger Square is in the centre of Bethlehem, overlooked by the Church of Nativity. It seems like the sort of place that would be described as bustling but on...
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Day 4 in Jerusalem: A Drop of Milk and a Pinch of Salt
The sheer absurdity of Bethlehem can be summed up by my experience at the Milk Grotto. The legend is that Mary stopped in a cave to breastfeed her baby. A drop of milk fell on to the stone and it then...
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Day 4 in Jerusalem: He is Not Here For He Has Risen
My final sight-seeing spot in Jerusalem was the Garden Tomb, where it is believed Jesus was buried and then came back to life. Despite not being far from the Damascus Gate it is a really difficult...
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A Visit to the Coptic Church in Sharm
For someone who is not religious I seem to spend all my time writing about visiting religious sites. Egypt is 90% Muslim, and the rest is mostly Coptic Christians. In Sharm and Luxor I have worked...
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