the day of fourteen stops

1 - At Mount Scopus for a final view of Jerusalem
2 - Wadi al Qelt for a one hour wander in the wilderness(unforgettable).
3 - The petrol station in the Jordan Valley
4 - Just before B'et Shean with the Israeli tank turned into a playground toy where we met a coachload of young people from East Jerusalem (mainly Muslim) on a day trip to the Jordan Valley.
5 - River Jordan baptism site. An unscheduled stop which included a scuffle between a German and a shopkeeper.
6 - The Church at Tabgha. Built in the 1980s using the Byzantine mosaics including the famous one of the loaves and fishes. The church has been a holy site for at least 1700 years, regarded as the place where Jesus fed the 5,000.
7 - Galilee beach / picnic stop and Church of the Primacy of Peter. Some of us had a bit of a paddle.
8 - Capernaum, including the synagogue and the space-ship a church hovering above a Byzantine hexagonal church above the site of 'Peter's House'.
9 - Mount of the Beatitudes - we were all churched out, but we drank in the view and the freshly squeezed juice.
10 - Site of the Battle of Hittim: here Sal-el-Adin defeated the crusaders -- Peter explained the events of the day's battle and the way the Crusaders overlapped + intersected with Sal-el-Adin.
11 - The First Miracle Shop at Cana of Galilee -- they were selling wine.
12 - The Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth -- impressive for many reasons including its size and scale, and the simple grotto which denotes a physical space where it is thought that the Angle Gabriel appeared to Mary.
13 - St Joseph's Church -- a church venerated as being the home of Joseph.
14 - Nazareth Greek Catholic Church. The iconography was superb, and the screen behind which the eucharist was prepared is remakable since it is a fusion of Orthod and Roman styles.