Our flight out of Detroit did not leave until 8:00 pm last night. We arrived in Rome around 10:00 am this morning. Driver met us and we checked int Capo Africa around noon. We wasted little time and headed out from our hotel to visit the city. The historic Collisusum and ancient Rome is only four blocks from our hotel. Very narrow streets and lots of traffic. About every other block there was a street side restaurant. Very nice and the food looked great. Dan used the map and I used my Iphone to guide us on our mission from the Rick Steve's Italy guide book. Our mission was to do the old Roman walk and see the famous sites, Spanish Steps, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain. After may blocks and dodging cars and motorbikes, we visited all ... read more

Hello everyone... Sherry and I with Dan and Jane Revsbech will be traveling to Italy September 16 to the 28th. I am testing our travel blog site to make sure it still works. We will be sending out blogs from our trip and pictures from our visit. We found the site a good way to capture our trip and also keep our families updated. If you would like us to remove you from the site, send us response and we will take care of it. Also,if you have a different email you would like us to use, let us know as well. Please send back a confirmation of receipt of this email to confirm we have the correct email. If we do not hear back, we will assume the email is gone. Thanks Doug & Sherry ... read more

Wednesday March 9, 2011 Our last day and we are greeted by rain and wind. We checked out at 9:00 am and headed back to the old city. Our visit today will be walking in the footsteps of Jesus to his crusifixtion. We entered the city through the Muslim quarter. Very interesting walking through the market in the morning. We saw many markets with fresh bread and fruit. The bread and fruits are displayed right out in the open. I am not sure how that works in the summer. We started on the "Via Dolorosa" at a church with an explanation on the many levels of old Jerusalem. This was important because the current street level is not the same as it was in Jesus's time. We did travel down below the street to see the ... read more

Monday March 7, 2011 We are heading to the old city.We just finished at Dome of the Rock. We were not able to go inside.We headed to the Wailing Wall and got chance to see a number of Bar Mitsvahs being held. We also got a chance to pray at the wall and see all the written prayers tucked into the wall. It was quite a humbling experience to pray at the wall, all men had to have a yamika on their head. Women were separated from the men by a wall. We then visited the Jerusalem Archalegocial museum and learned about the temple during King Herod and Jesus's time. We saw the gates and steps to the temple. Our next visit was to Mt. Zion. We visited David's tomb and the Upper room.It was somewhat ... read more

Saturday March 5 We left Tiberias at 8:00 am this morning. We are heading south to the Dead Sea. Mediddo, one of the oldest ruins in Israel. Megiddo was the site of many battles and at least twenty five different civilizations. Most of the ruins were not discovered until 1925 by the university of Chicago. The site was very valuable to who ever controlled the site. Christian tradition identifies Megiddo as Armageddon-Revelations 16:16. Harold Spring bubbles up from the Gideon cave at the foot of the Gil boa. This was the site, where GIdeon's soldiers tried and selected for the war against the Midianites. See Judges 7:1,7:16-17,6-7. Our last stop before lunch was at Bet She an national park. The city was home to 30,000 to 40,000 people. The city was destroyed by the Assyrian king ... read more