Jerusalem Between Walls
There is something I don't like about travel writing (especially in Turkish): They reproduce the already existing tourist guides! What I want to get is a not repeatable tour schedule but impressions of travellers, what's left behind with them. That's why, I would like you to read these travel notes knowing that they are mine . * * * We went to Jerusalem for a long weekend since my husband had to be there for a work meeting. As we live in Jordan, it took us -together with the border controls- 4 hours from Amman to Jerusalem by car. I tell this to point how close the countries in the Middle East are to one another. And after passing the Allenby Bridge, we said shalom to a new country in every sense of the word. We spent our fist two nights in an amazing hotel in East Jerusalem, the American Colony , where there are mostly Palestinians. The hotel hosts many who come to the city for high level work visits. The staff are Arabs so if you happen to be a minister...