This could also be called 'Mad about Madaba'. I love it. Have travelled more - not widely, but deeply, to discover that we are in the land of the Moabites. Off the beaten track on the road to Mt Nebo is an unprepossessing litle church loosely known as the Reuben church in the lands where Rueben, eldest of the sons of Jacob, established his tribe, one of the 12. Inside: guess what? Yes, more magic mosaics. To the other side of the hill, down a precipitous road, is the probable site of Moses' last dwelling, the Moses Spring. Grafittied and grubby, it looks more like the scene of nefarious goings-on, but there was, in fact, a family there filling plastic bottles from the sluggish spring. The man was wearing a dagger. Have been reading the Old Testament to try to establish some sort of chronology, but given that they all lived so long, it's a bit hard to work out who was where when.
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