Saturday, August 25, 2018

things I forgot to write during visit Tiberias

Hi there,
Yes there are things I forgot to mention, during my visit to Israel.
That is that after I got my car in Haifa, I then drove to Arbel village where I stayed in the Shavit family guest house and did a horse trek on the following day. That's recorded. After the 2 nights there I drove to Tiberias and drove to Restal hotel in the city. the GPS led me there. It was a nice hotel with a swimming pool. I stayed there one night.
At the Restal hotel pool.
I walked to the waterfront and saw some shops and a market and went into a shopping mall. The next day I drove around to see more Christian sites, I  drove to Ginosar see the 2000 year old boat,
2000 year old boat
to Tagba (where Jesus fed the multitudes with 5 loaves and 5 fish), Magdala and Caphernaum and visited the Mount of Beatitudes but it was closed.
I also went to visit a friend from the church, Cheryl Burlow,( kiwi's) and her husband,( he was at work as a tour guide)) they live in a small hamlet called Livnim. You can only get there by car, so I was glad I had a car. It was going up and up in the hills and then I found it. A nice place overlooking the Sea of Galilee( or the Kinneret, as the locals call the lake) I had a great chat with this lady and some lunch with her too. The house is spacious and they run a B&B there too. ( see photos at the bottom of this page)
market in Tiberias
I had noticed lots of excavations on each site I visited. So there is lots of proof that Israel is in her homeland from very long times ago. And it also proves the bible to be true.
After I had visited those places it was time for me to go to the Kibbutz, which was about an hour drive. I put in Afula in the GPS because my phone had been heating up so much that the GPS would switch itself off, and I can't have that when you are reluying on directions. I also kept the phone in front of the airco so it would cool down, that helped a bit. I really needed a clip for the phone to stick into the aircon but I didn't know there even was such a thing. I went to Afula to the Budget car rental to see if they had a GPS that wouldn't heat up. I got there and no, they didn't have any spare GPS's at all. So I had to do with the phone. On straight stretches of road I would hold my phone over the aircon and then leave it there for a few minutes and then stick it back on the magnet that was attached to the inside window .
When I got to the Kibbutz, I got to the little supermarket and rang Ben up to say I had arrived. He came a bit later and I followed him to " my unit". Funny thing is, a few days later, after I had visited Gan Hashlosha, a piece of paradise, like an Oasis.

 I arrived at the wrong kibbutz and got lost. ( there are 2 kibbutzes) So I had to ring Margie to come and rescue me. LOL. The GPS thing got sorted, Ben loaned me his phone holder that clips on to the aircon. So when I left I had my phone on that and it went without a problem all the way to Jerusalem, in the heart of Jerusalem. So glad the GPS worked and didn't heat up.
The Sea of Galilee

at the waterfront of Tiberias

excavation site

At Tagba

Inside the church

dedicated to StPeter's mother-in-law and all mother-in-laws
Me and Sheryl with their view from house

view from Sheryl's house

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