Today, 10/11, we arrived in Haifa, Israel. We were met by retired Israeli police officers and members of the International Police Association (IPA) who took us on a tour of Haifa, Nazareth and other places including a Druid village. They brought us to another IPA member who owns a restaurant and fed us a meal fit for a king. Judy even drank an espresso after lunch.
In Nazareth we went to: the beautiful Basilica of the Annunciation where Mary went to cleanse herself; the Church of Joseph; and the Synagogue Church where Jesus went to pray. Jesus jumped out of the Synagogue and down a hill to get away from people who were going to kill him.
In Akka (sp) we saw where Napoleon left behind his sick and injured soldiers when he retreated to Turkey.
In Haifa we saw the San Francisco Observatory. San Francisco is Haifa’s sister city. We saw all the ports including one built by China. Up on a hill we could see where Lebanon and Syria.
nice!
Haifa is one of my favorite ports for my Navy cruise in 1990. The food was good and the natives were very friendly. One of the Marines in our shop was my wing man, and we enjoyed both the Jewish and Muslim sections. If you walk up the hill, be careful because it is easy to turn an ankle on the olives.
Have fun