bananas | Brit In Jerusalem

See these bananas? There’s loads of them growing by the side of the road. I think there must several square kilometres of them.

Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

Here’s also where a whole load of olives have been harvested

Here’s a view from the road.

So I walked from the youth hostel part of the way around the radius of the Galilee, but only a bit below Capernaum.

Only thing was, before I left, I slipped down some stairs at the hostel and banged my knee on the hard granite floor. Although painful I went off walking. After 10kms of walking I decided to go back, it also getting dark. Only the next day it started to hurt.

I had this Rav Card. Its like the London Oyster card for the tube. Buses are now cashless and I didn’t know. I got the card, but hadn’t put any credit on. A bus arrived and wouldn’t take my shekels in cash. A kind local Arab guy sat near the front got up and tapped his card allowing me to ride home for free.

The next day I didn’t go out, as my knee was really sore, so spent time hanging out on the roof top and reading, and praying my knee would heal.

This time I didn’t get to go back to see Jesus places like Capernaum as I needed a day to recover, then go to see Mount Tabor to see the place of the transfiguration.

1. Items in the wrong places – 2. Galilee rooftop chats of faith – 3. Storms and the Queen’s funeral – 4. The town about the rejected stone Rosh Pina – 5. Who might witness Jesus’ return before anyone else? – 6. Galilee crops – 7. Soon…..

This view shows facing southwards from the most extreme north coastal point of Israel.

This is Rosh Ha Nikra (meaning Head of the Grottos) a place of natural beauty, containing not only natural caves, but a museum built on the site of a railway line which goes from Israel through Lebanon through to Turkey built by the British in WWII, not running any more of course!

There is a nearby Kibbutz, the white tent you can see in the distance is a banana plantation, apparently British Jewish comedian who created Borat and Bruno characters Sacha Baron Cohen once lived here.

The left field has all the fruit picked. The right hand one shows the bunches of bananas has blue plastic bags round them to keep out insects and birds, as well plastic sheeting around the whole field. Means the fruit doesn’t have any chemicals on them instead.

The entrance to the cable cars and visitor centre.

Amusing looking warning signs in the cable car, the journey down was something like two minutes or so I think.

The tunnels, long since blocked off, as its impossible to cross over to Lebanon through the regular borders, carried trains all the way up through the middle east. These days in holds a cinema screen and some chairs for a presentation showing the history of this railway route.

Ancient grafitti in Hebrew here, not sure of age, not so easy to see unfortunately from this picture, could be good to bring some crayons and paper and make some rubbings if you plan to come here. On the right, some modern scribbles.