The next thing we noticed was the high degree of security being enforced throughout the country. Even McDonalds along with every cafe, restaurant, hotel, marina, bus & railway station has an armed guard, and we became used to having backpacks searched and to seeing guns being toted by teenagers in military uniforms.
Our first visit was to Jerusalem, an exciting city, and to the old walled city where we saw the western [wailing] wall and the temple mount, with its golden dome and Al Aqusa mosque; very sobering to witness the activities there in what is the crucible of much of the world`s woes.
We later visited Haifa and toured to the Dead Sea and the mountain of Masada where around a thousand Jewish zealots martyred themselves rather than surrender to the beseiging Romans.
Cadiz is now again at Larnaca in Cyprus enroute to Turkey.
