My dear Friends
This will be the last blog before my trip to Amsterdam-I leave on Saturday. Chava and Liesbeth have made a detailed plan for me, apparently,with one or two gaps when i will be on my own. I have very little sense of direction, (once being lost in the middle of Tel Aviv for about three hours), but they have assured me they will acquaint me with the trams, as they know i don't enjoy walking too far either!
But isn't any holiday an adventure? You never quite know what will happen, but i am in good hands.I long to go to the Ryksmuseum and see the Rembrandts-I remember the first time I was gasping at the size of them, and oh, the colours, those deep reds and burnished golds of 'The Night Watch.' I have never been to the Van Gogh museum, but was very struck by the Jewish Museum. From the window you see a canal, and just behind a canal an old building, which turned out to be the Old Synagogue, where Chava got married.
Anyway, I will be in touch again in about two weeks, when we will be really into Eastertide. Between Easter sunday, Ascension and Pentecost we have seven weeks, when Jesus appeared to His disciples in Galilee. In parallel, the Jewish people celebrate passover and then 7 weeks until Shavuot, the giving of the Torah on Mount sinai.
Be well and joyful
Shalom from Gila
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment