My job brought me to lot of cities, European, African, Middle-east… But this time, I discovered such a special and unique city : Jerusalem.

We’ve heard so many times this name, from the Jews, the Christians and the Muslim all over the world ; but only when you see with your own eyes, could finally feel what a magic mixture of all the tensions and harmonies combining into the deep and thin flow.

Many of my friends had received a very special New Year greeting from this Holy City. Here I’d like to give some ideas of your trip there, you have to go there even only once.

Try to find a reasonable price in a luxury hotel, at least for the first night, so that you could ask for a VIP welcome with staff waiting for you at the gate of the plane and bring you by car directly to the exit of the airport, you could avoid all the queuing lines. Enjoy the very pleasant beginning of your trip.

The hotel King David is really one of the first choices, which mixed into the history of Jerusalem. The rooms on the back side of the hotel give you an incomparable view of the old city and Mont Olive, plus the garden backyard, which connects with a big parking leading to one of my favorite « modern Jerusalem »– Yemin Moses, under the windmill.

If you passby, do not forget to say hello to the ”doorcat David” for me, she does normally the night shift on the welcome desk:-)))

There is very few hotels inside the old city. But you really should try the Austrian Hospice… It’s just unbelievable. I postponed my flight just for staying there for one night. You feel like living in a gallery, or a castle, with the best bird-eye view of the city while you are part of it. Especially, it lies right on the famous “ Via Dolorosa”, so you could walk on that street either in the evening, either in early morning when all the shops on that street are still closing… You could really feel something from the heart of this holy old city……

I still dream of Jerusalem…

and I am going back soon.