Some pictures at last. Most photos have been taken on the camera and there is no way of downloading or uploading those until I return home. So I've managed to remember to take the odd photo on the phone.

I've yet to master proper editing so they are in order

The wonderfully evocative Garden Tomb-a first century tomb that is almost certainly not the one where Jesus was laid but gives a good idea of what it might have looked like.

 The Dome of the Rock. It is the most beautiful of buildings and was built way back in the seventh century. Security is very tight for non Muslims wanting to visit and there had been some scuffles between young men and soldiers the day before.

Prayers at the western wall. We visited two days previously on the Sabbath when it was awash with orthodox Jews all in their prayer shawls. Men are to the left and women to the right.

The next three photos are of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum. It is a very moving place and helps put some of what is happening now in context. Young Jewish men and women are taken there just before they begin their training for the Israeli Defence Force. The first image is of the Hall of Remembrance with the eternal flame burning and the names of the death camps inscribed in the floor. The second is a memorial to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and the third is the martyrs pillar. Not pictured is the children's memorial which is almost unbearable. A single candle is magnified to infinity by mirrors and the names of each of the 1.5 million children murdered are read in turn on a continuous loop.