Get ready New York & Israel – the Ellers are on their way :)
Posted in Uncategorised on Apr 3rd, 2019
02/04/2019 Well, here we are on the last day of our trip! 5 weeks has gone by so quickly. We’ve had a wonderful rest here in Waikiki and are now both ready to come home to family & friends. We leave very early tomorrow morning, 6am pickup, and will be back in Welly via Sydney just […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Apr 1st, 2019
28 – 31/03/2019 Ah…Hawaii ! This is where the holiday part of the trip begins ! There isn’t much to say except that Honolulu is warm & relaxed. We are in the last hotel at the quiet end of Waikiki Beach in a corner room with a spectacular ocean view & also look out right […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 31st, 2019
27/03/2019 Today was our ‘airport day’…we knew it would be a bit of a wasted day as we would have to spend a long time there before our flight after midnight that night, but until you are sitting there doing nothing for 12 hours, you dont’ realise how long the wait really is & how […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 31st, 2019
26/03/2019 This morning we walked down outside the old city walls to visit the Golden Gate (sometimes called the Mercy Gate). This is the gate that has been blocked up for centuries and will be the one that Jesus will come through on a white horse when he returns. It has an Arab cemetery in […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 31st, 2019
25/03/2019 Up early we were at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at 7.10am….however so were alot of other people. And there was a mass going on right next to the tomb structure, so they weren’t letting anyone in until mass was over and then the pews all cleared away – this is the 2nd […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 31st, 2019
24/03/2019 A morning visit to the Temple Institute was eye opening! They have made every vessel, lamp, alter, priests outfits etc ready for the third temple and they are deadly serious. Just incredible what has been made and what they are planning for the future. More exploring & decided to walk the ramparts along the […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 31st, 2019
23/03/2019 For the first time in over 2 weeks we had a lazy start to the day and didn’t get outside until after lunch. Jerusalem was still on the cold side so the shorts stayed in the suitcase! Wandering around the markets linking the quarters can cause a few headaches as they all look the […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 31st, 2019
22/03/2019 Quiet night in Tel Aviv & after the last huge breakfast at the hotel we explored the Camel Market – not a camel in sight but plenty of food of every type you can imagine and things you didn’t know you needed or for that matter even knew existed. We then bit the bullet […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 22nd, 2019
21/3/2019: During the drive back to Tel Aviv we stopped at a few more places, a Kibbutz for ice cream made on site from their dairy farm, the Ramon crater in the Negev desert which is 40kms in length – we could hardly see the other side and the ruins of the biblical old city […]
Posted in Uncategorised on Mar 22nd, 2019
20/3/2019: Crossing the border into Jordan reminded me of those movies where prisoners are exchanged and walk past each other in no mans land to the other side. Many checks of passports and security checks but it was fairly painless and we walked into Jordan by 8am and onto a Jordanian bus with a new […]