A 4.5 hour bus ride has taken us from Dubrovnik to Split; the trip is a feast for the eyes, traveling through little villages along shear cliff faces with the most gorgeous scenery. We arrived I Split and were immediately disappointed that we had left Dubrovnik. Split is a city of about 200,000 people so is a little grubby and very hot. We met a lady at the bus station who offered us accommodation, a bedroom basically, very reasonable price, but we discovered w...

We arrived in Patra, Greece after a long train ride and hair raising bus ride, the driver must have thought he was in a race! Anyway we arrived safe and were helped find our way to the Port and our ferry by a very nice young lady we met on the train. Without her help I think we would still be on the train wondering what to do. The photo attached was taken from the ferry, we were allowed to board at 4 pm so we settled in and have explored the decks, found the d...

Here we are at the airport. We left the motel at about 3:10am for the trip to Tel Aviv and the airport. The taxi driver thought he was a pilot, rocketing down the highway at warp speed. Getting through security and customs was a long process. Given the strife near the Gaza strip it is no wonder. We had to have bags x-rayed and then unloaded and checked for anything undesirable, then we had to pass through many security checks, I actually lost count! But here w...

Today is our last day in Israel, so we have taken the fast rail back to the old city of Jerusalem to visit the Garden tomb. We spent about 2 hours alone in the garden communing with our Lord. What a special place this is, we felt the Lord very close to us. I read from the scriptures: psalm 16; LORD, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. ...

It was a slow day today, but a good day. We started it badly by having to complain about our Internet service as it kept dropping out and then we were unable to login at all. After more than an hour it finally started to work. So we were able to talk to Phill and Roxanne and Aeysha. After breakfast we headed out for the Holocaust Museum, which was good to see but left us incredibly sad and melancholy. The attempted genocide by the Hitler regime was an atrocity ...