ISRAEL - Chapter 5: Haifa, Carmel, Tiberias, Galilee

After parting from Mary, we continued north, catching a bus to the coastal town of Haifa. Again, the Lord's favor shown on us as we made a last minute call to friend in Arad who had some connections up north. We asked if there was anyone up there we could spend the night with, and he gave us the number of a believer with a bed and breakfast, but told us not to get our hopes up as she usually books a month in advance. We called, and amazingly enough she had room that night! So we caught a another bus in Haifa to take us to nearby Carmel.

We had great intentions of hiking out bright and early the next day to go off and find "the" Mount Carmel, or rather the spot regaled as the location of Elijah's showdown with the prophets of Baal. But the icky dreary day and the realization that this spot was hard to get to, we opted instead to have a leisurely breakfast with our hostess (an amazing cook, even wrote a cookbook) and her other house guests, which was a young Messianic rabbi and a Las Vegas preacher and his wife. :o) Man, gotta love how things turn out.... ;o)

Then we were off to the Galilean town of Tiberias. The "greeness" of the region was beautiful and refreshing.
Just had fun wondering the shores...































Some wicked looking tree we came across... :o)




While we were hungrily gazing at the schwarma shops, this man beckoned us in with his large meaty hand and big grin. For what he lacked in his English he made up for in his warm character. :o) Even though his knife was so dull he couldn't hardly cut the meat off the spit, he still got 5 stars for effort and service! ;o)




With tummies full, we hopped back on our looooong bus ride back to Jerusalem.

Back at "home" we take a night walk around Jerusalem with Mary, with an impromtu stop in on a live jazz coffee house. And then later even squeezed in some pool at a local haunt :o) Livin it up :o)





More pics to come!