Phil, looking generally pleased with the world, wearing his special "don't shoot me i'm not a towel-head" hat on the military training ground.

The military training ground, a long way from home.

Filling up at the Bedouin well. Note the delightful balck colour of the water (in the coke bottle to the right).

The Bedouin tent

Looking merry in the bedouin tent

My bleeding and battered foot

Looking hot, bothered and slighlty less than impressed in a cave half way down a dry waterfall.

The Dead Sea and Jordan in the distance. From the top of an impassable cliff.

Bindhi puppy

The Great Genghis, in a typical pose

Demo against the Wall at Al Khader

A sudden addition to a main street in Bethlehem - this went up in about three days. The trucks bringing the construction materials drove past our offices each day.

This is a new settlement at Rachel's Tomb, smack in the middle of Bethlehem.

It is a weird place for weird people to live in.

The settler house, through a gap soon to be closed......... nice view they'll have going on there......

Road-block

Some funky trees (albeit evil eucalypts that will poison the ground and take over the planet)

The walls and main gate of Akko

Grinning inanely by the sea

The walls of Akko

The sea and the rocks by the walls of Akko

Wind and kite surfers in lego land (Tel Aviv)

Phil at the beach in Tel Aviv

Sunset in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Jaffa by night

Al-Waladja, a village on the outskirts of Bethlehem - houses and terraces.

An afternoon at Attar's - a friend from Al-Waladja.

We spent the morning transposing a map of the proposed security fence onto a map of the villages houses and lands. A big red line through 8 houses, a number more in question. 25 demolishion orders have been issued, most of the land will be lost.

We spent the afternoon playing with the kids and eating pizza.

Attar's adorable kids.

Attar's wife, Fatima, picking vine leaves.

Bucket-head!

Phil, stealing a bike

Steve, looking contemplative and purple.

A good view of the settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo that border Al-Waladja.

In the valley there is a zoo, and you can hear the eerie commentary of the tourist train drifting up on the wind.

In the valley are burnt trees and barbed wire fences, stolen land and broken hearts.

It is an unusual place.

The reconstructed house, and some of the guys who live in it.

A UN tent, where residents of Al-Waladja are lucky enough to reside when their houses get demolished. The family who occupied this one were thrown out in January, to watch their house get reduced to rubble. They have 5 children. Their house was rebuilt in April, but has another demolition order on it.

Hillside in Al-Waladja

Anne, Steve's mother, exchanging words with a donkey

Rania, Steve's lovely wife

Cremisan Winery, Bethlehem, supplying all our winey needs

Another Bethlehem Wall shot

Phil - boozing

Acrobatic camels riding a giant fly

Pissed up chez moi

Phil in a cage at Nablus checkpoint

Phil and the farmers from Sebastia

Donkey hanging out in the ruins of Samaria, where we met the farmers.

Ruined temple in Samaria

Column heads in the ruins of an ancient palace in Samarie

Hillside in Sebastia, overlooking Nablus

Damascus Gate in Jerusalem from above

Myself upon the walls in Jerusalem

The walls of Jerusalem overlooking a park

Beware the Jabberwock

Beware the Jabberwock