Fairly close to here, a small flock of sheep, fed up with being prayed on by wolves and the like, bribed a human to look after them, creating not only the World’s first true ‘Industry’ but creating the original profession – Shepherd! Yoav had kindly leant me a Bible to read in my spare moments so I was interested to read these transcripts. I’ve found a very impressive 189 references to sheep so far, mostly ‘lamb of God’ and ‘Lord is my shepherd’ type of thing but there are the odd ‘sacrificial lamb’ that I find a bit upsetting. Still Noah had the right idea, inviting 7 pairs of ‘clean’ animals such as ourselves aboard to ‘help feed the animals’. I can just imagine my hardworking ancestors filling the 2 horses’ hay-nets and washing the 2 dogs’ bowls, mind i’ve always wondered what the pair of Lions ate. Talking of food.. Haggling can make you very hungry so we went to have lunch in one of the local Arab restaurants. For some reason the meat dishes made me think of my old auntie Mildred but the Falafel balls and plate of Hummus were delicious. (Photo 4) No clover in it at all but still I could get used to it…
With no time to waste Yoav and his wife Adi took me to Nazareth. A wonderful city which is an amazing mixture of old and new, markets full of local fruit, vegetables and spices, traffic jams , oh ,and a few holy sites as well. We visited the Basilica of the Annunciation which felt quite special ….. (Photos 5)
….. and then went shopping for souvenirs. I took a fancy to these polished ram horns. Yoav said they were used as horns at Jewish prayers to part the skies to let the prayers get through. Must be a local breed, very impressive horns, wish I could meet these boys. (Photo 6)
Never ever listen to the locals, smoking is bad for you!!! If I ever wake up I’ll send another blog … on the other hand I could get used to this stuff.
(Photo 7)
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