Abu Ghosh

Yesterdays blog did not get posted until today because the wifi was down in the Hotel.

When writing about the students at the University, I mentioned one who had to come through the wall.  Today we had that experience (not as bad as hers but it took about 45mins.).  Firstly, the first guards insisted that the driver got out and he had to answer various questions.  Then we got the second lot of guards and 2 of them got onto the coach with guns and told us to show them our passports.  Just imagine having to go through that and worse every day.  I really should not have taken this photo, but as you can see, we were quite a distance away.

Abu Ghosh  area has the Birth of John the Baptist and the Visitation churches.

Tomb of John the Baptist

|Finally, we went to The Crusader Church and  Monastery where one of the nuns told us about its history and what they do.  It was an idyllic site, onw that would wonderful to stay at.  (They do have a couple of guest houses!)