by Susan Jagannath | Mar 13, 2009 | Churches, Places
As that’s the only way to get into the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square. You can see the three doors shrinking with each destruction, and the final one is to prevent Muslim invaders from riding their horses into the church. In the square a mosque and the...
by Susan Jagannath | Mar 12, 2009 | Places
On the way to Nazareth we drove across the coastal plain that used to be mostly swamp and sand dunes. The swamps have been drained by about a hundred years of planting gums – apparently in the early part of the 20th century, someone saw the Turks planting gums...
