Sun and strawberries in Jericho

The oasis of Jericho

Hisham's Palace in Jericho

Yesterday, I drove down to Jericho together with Liz, my new boss in Washington. It is such a bless to come down to this desert oasis situated more than 200 meter below sea level in the Jordan Valley. Here, there is summer year round. The Palestinian farmers in the area grow bananas, oranges, lemon and vegetables. I also bought fresh strawberries. Imagine – in mid December!

Jericho and Jerusalem, then partying

We have had some really poor weather here lately, with lots of rain and cold winds. So I drove down to Jericho with anders to warm up a bit. Surprisingly, it was a bit chilly there too. But we had lunch at the top of the cable car, then visited the Hisham's palace ruins.

On the way back to Jerusalem, I stopped to take some photos of bedouins herding their goats over the barren mountains. Beautiful.




Then we popped by the view point on the Mount of Olives and took more photos.


In the evening, we found ourselves doing some serious yet improvised partying, with me mixing caipirinhas and margueritas, and popping the nice sparkling wine we brought home from South Africa. We finished the evening with live music at the Russian jazz bar.