about to fly!!

We made it to Ben Gurion airport, despite the delays at a couple of checkpoints which slowed us down by a good hour and a half. Anyhow, it now says 'boarding' for the most of us ... though two are leaving half an hour later on Lufthansa. We have had an amazing, intense, memorable and at times exhausting trip.

A Palestinian in Beit Sahour said to a few us "thank you for spending your tourist money, not on a beach or in the Canaries, but buying some stress from this place instead"!