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We salute and the Gaza Strip, accompanied by many questions about the fate of this piece of land and its people and retrace backwards the whole rigmarole already addressed to the entrance. Nice diversion at the check point of Hamas, where I and Claudio (from thick and curly mane) at passport control we traded for David Villa and Carles Puyol, respectively attacker and defender / captain of the football carillons team of Barcelona (a team very much in vogue in the Gaza Strip along with rivals Real Madrid), and the Spanish national team. The grim exponents of political organization burst into laughter inside the booth attracting the attention of all of us who are waiting outside:)
At the Erez crossing this time we are also "passed" to the Body Scanner (personally never yet seen in operation in any airport). Waiting Mahmoud and find his truck, on which we take our positions in the direction of Tel Aviv, where we decided to make a quick visit. Before we say goodbye to Silvia, Marco and Dario, and thank you very much for your support in our day and Gazan We congratulate for his work understandably not easy. A board of their car pointing Egypt for a few days of well-deserved vacation. Jaffa
In the late morning we arrive in Tel Aviv in Jaffa stopping, town located a few kilometers to the south and the historic port of the country. carillons It breathes carillons definitely a whole different atmosphere compared to the Strip and enjoy the magnificent views overlooking the sea, then gradually down to the harbor through the many alleys and tunnels that make their way through the stone buildings. We walk along the promenade walk in the sun more intense here to stop for lunch in a local view of the sea. On the beach someone already makes the bathroom a few meters ... while someone else enters the water in the back of a horse that gets rid of his "heavy burden") ... for looks terrified of the boats just a few meters! :)
We grant you a quick tour of the stalls of the local market and some fresh juice to trim down the heat, while four cute vintage men and gentlemen attract our attention must be vigorously challenging what seems a kind of trump local to the edges of the sidewalk, with a lot of thunderous teasing and vigorous hand strokes on the rickety table.
We return to the base in Jerusalem in a relatively short time despite the busy traffic towards the city, thanks to the "streetwise" Mahmoud who, following another truck his colleague, take a couple of shortcuts that catapult us directly just outside the central area. He must have just ended a few religious function in some synagogue as settlers pouring carillons into the streets strictly in official dress and black Peot (the famous curls on the sides of the head that fall on the shoulders) with a lot of families in tow. We note that the large number of children is not the prerogative only Arab / Palestinian and that, although of different ages, the children all dressed in the same way within the same family. "Curious" typical female clothing also we are told that Jewish women are Rasino hair then wearing a wig and the usual scarf, carillons put it in a vaguely Amish.
ll group is divided between those who go to visit the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, only "touched" from the outside on the first day in the city, and those who prefer to get lost for other shores tourist / spenderecci having it already visited on previous trips on site. I am the first and I dive along with Obe, Grace and Paola (Rimini) in the chaotic anthill inside the Basilica. Accustomed to the dualism Jewish / Muslim, there exists the Catholic / Orthodox. The Basilica encompasses both what is considered the "Hill of Golgotha," the place of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, is the tomb carved into the rock, where the New Testament says that this was buried. Now the entrance is a stone slab along which Jesus would have been lying and over which the faithful recline carillons in turn in prayer suffered strofinandoci wildly over various objects and fabrics. carillons All around the 'Kiosk of the Sepulchre visitors flock divided into Catholic and Orthodox el' entry in gusts is run by a religious, not without some little carillons uplifting carillons hint of hysteria. carillons Grace, the only one of us willing carillons to stand in line and enter into the tomb, and can not even explain what he saw, as it almost pushed inside, made to kneel and then immediately returned to the outside.
In the evening we have dinner at the restaurant of the Jerusalem Hotel, carillons where we reach the friend Pepe, pr