Pictures And Words

During my last few weeks in Israel I was homed in the north, living with Lee’s parents in Raquefet, a beautiful modern village. The north of Israel is full of things to see, so me and Lee had lots of trips out to see things!

First of all i’ll put these pictures of the cats up, Lee has a family of cats living outside her house, her mother doesn’t like then coming in the house, so they live quite happily just outside it, they get fed everyday. Strange thing is they don’t trust us humans!! They run away if you go near them. They had a litter of kittens, so I made it my mission to befriend them. I would catch the kittens when I could, hold them down all struggling and put their faces in cream, and put cheese in their mouths. After a while the would forget I am holding them captive and eat eat eat! Using this special method I befriended only one of the kittens, which now comes to Lee when she calls, all the others still run away!

Lee has god damn wild tortoises in her village! Crazy hey! All the time I would look for them, and then one day Lee’s dad called us to the front room and he had found one! So I took it outside and watched it walk around and stuff, it was great!

This is a rather silly dog, its a husky type dog, normally used to living in extreme colds, so it makes sense that if it is to live in the heat of the middle east then it should have all its fur cut off, it sure does look silly though! And thats the kitten that friendly now due to my special catch n feed method.

One of the places to go and visit in the north was Nazareth, the place where Jesus grew up. You could see where J.C. went drinking on street corners, see where he first kissed a girl. Talking to the locals you can get stories of when J.C. had to be carried home that night when he drank a whole bottle of Jagermeister. Also the story of when he set fire to the bins outside the offlicense, and nearly burnt down Mr Cohen the kosher butchers house. All that has changed now, J.C. is long dead and buried (after one failed attempt), and now you can go and see relics such as this in the photo, its a church built on the long fallen home of Mary, J.C’s mother. The first picture is from outside the church and the next is of some stain glass windows inside.

More of the stain glass windows inside the church. Whilst we were there a huge tour group of Italian tourists came in to see, they were loving it!

Ok, the first pic is where it all went down, J.c. was raised here, this is the remains of Mary’s house, just think, J.C. came of age there, started to get interested in girls, was proud of his first chest hair, stole money out of his mama’s purse, then had some kind of epiphany (of the highest order) and the rest as they say, is history! The second picture is from inside the church, normally I don’t like to take pictures inside temples and churches, but everyone was at it!

There’s another one from inside the church, and theres Lee looking beautiful as she had to cover up her legs and shoulder to go in, so the church gave her some shawls to do just that, she looks like a perfect christian now eh!

This is from a seperate days traveling, where we went for a big ride around the whole of the north, mainly just looking at things from the window of the car. This is a murial to mark the spot of a helicopter crash, all young soldiers, coming back from a mission in Lebanon (I think they were on their way back) and they crashed, they wern’t shot down or anything, something happened and they crashed, it was one of them big 2 blade helicopters, so there were a lot of people in it, and they all died. Each of them big stones represents a person. Israel is a country at war, death surrounds war continuously.

Now this remains of a tank is in the north of Israel, its cannon is pointing towards Syria, a country that Israel doesn’t have good relations with, and putting a gun permanently pointing towards the country is a bit childish really, don’t you think? Its not solving anything is it now, and in the second picture there is a huge Israeli flag that all the people in Syria next to the border can clearly see. Its all a bit childish really.

The group you can see to the right of this picture is a group of American school kids, who have come to Israel to have a tour, im assuming they are Jewish kids. The tour guide was telling them about the history between Israel and Sinai.

Here’s some pictures from Haifa.

Here’s a church in haifa, with barbed wire all around it, and an Israeli flag a-flying in the grounds, I just don’t know why!
And Wadi Nisnaz, ahhh Wadi Nisnaz!

This beautiful building is home to the Bahai faith people in Israel, they believe in everything, they have symbols from all religions adorning their temples, wimpy copout? Good tactics? Safe bets? Call it what you will, at least there not killing people over what they believe.

And some beautiful sunflowers!! Me and Lee took some seeds from them and they were delicious!

And thats it, i kinda sped through the last pictures, it was taking way to long to write this, and I am in Australia now, so there are Australian things on my mind, i will put some pictures of Oz on later today, I hope people are still there reading what I write!!