I used this time to visit a few things to tick off the list. This included another walk up The Mount of Olives to visit the Church of Pater Noster - site of the Lord's Prayer and the place of Ascension (one of three anyway!) this included a walk through 'the burbs' which was an eye opener. I didn't feel unsafe, but was conscious of what was going in around me! One thing I found disturbing was the amount of rubbish in the streets. There doesn't appear to be rubbish bins, but rather communal skips that everyone throughs their rubbish in. I assume they only get emptied periodically as they are piled high and the stench can be unbearable!
I returned home for lunch and then went for a wander through the old city.
In the late afternoon we went to the Western Wall to witness the end of Yom Kippur. This was many Jewish people dressed in white and sounding their shofars (ram's horns).
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