Israeli Thanksgiving Days Three and Four

DAY THREE
Stop 6: Tabgha and Capernaum – the sites of Jesus preaching the Sermon on the Mount and the site of the loaves and fishes miracles. The church on the site of the fishes miracles had a pond with really attractive koi – do people eat them?

Stop 7: Nazareth – this town was actually a disappointment. The churches were only okay; the town was chaotically laid out and lunch was so-so but no bargain. So we packed up early and decided to head to on.

Stop 8: Haifa suburban movie theatres. We have gone to Tel Aviv for movie-weekend but on Saturday we headed to Haifa and coincidentally drove past a 23-screen multiplex where we stopped and watched the Duchess (very good) and Body of Lies (pretty good).

DAY FOUR

Stop 9: Mt. Taybor – pretty views into the countryside, nice mosaics and the possible site of the transfiguration. We overheard a tour guide saying that the transfiguration actually is more likely to have occurred at Mt. Harmon (Israel’s ski resort) and the discussion was about the likelihood of which mountain rather than the likelihood of the event.

Stop 10: Bet Shean – this is one of Israel’s largest archaeology sites and indeed pretty impressive as things go – but our visit was short – mostly because we had already seen Roman cities on the trip and many during our time in Jordan and so that we would have time to eat one last falafel lunch before making it to the border crossing.