We got to Jerusalem in the middle of the afternoon, and we were both sort of exhausted–Kris because she's got pneumonia, and me because I was feeling the effects of breathing in a sandstorm we're having here in Israel.
But after a brief rest, I got up and walked the 20 minutes down the street into the Old City of Jerusalem. I had no idea what to expect, and after wandering there for a couple of hours, I'm still not sure. But what I can say is pretty much just a catalog of things I saw: souvenir shops, and shops with actual arts and crafts I would buy if I had a house; very religiously observant people, and secular people; natives and tourists; a very obvious security presence, including frequent pairs of Israeli soldiers slinging automatic rifles, and loud kids on skateboards. I only stopped at one “historical” site: the Western Wall, where I snapped some pictures.
But mostly I just wandered the warrens of the narrow streets of the Old City of Jerusalem and looked at a city unlike any I've ever seen before.
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