Jerusalem is too stinking hot and crowded today. It's the weekend, so if we were staying for the next two days, we would get to experience the joy of moving around a bursting city. Luckily, lots of stuff here is cheap, especially scarves and t-shirts. It's almost worth it to move around this happy city to find the cheap gifts. This is just the old city though. West Jerusalem is more expensive and a lot less crowded.
There are a lot of soldiers on patrol in the old city. Usually they're in twos, and mostly they just talk to each other and check their phones. But, a couple of nights ago, they quickly put up some police barriers before a crowd of jewish people marched through the Muslim Quarter, right in front of where we were staying in the Muslim quarter. I got a few good photos before we were asked to move away from the balcony. The marchers wanted to rebuild the Temple where the Dome of the Rock now stands, and they marched through the Muslim Quarter just to get that point across. Not the most happy demonstration I've seen. The next day, everything went back to whatever is considered normal here.
Eric
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