Wednesday Photo Nights #8 : Jersusalem : Could you eat olives from the Garden of Gethsemane?

June 29, 2012 174 Views

Sitting here at Frankfurt Airport and waiting on my connection to Helsinki, I was munching on a plate of Olives and it got me to thinking and wondering perversely, if anyone had eaten olives from the Garden of Gethsemane. These olive trees are reputed to be more than 900 years old.

I would figure that if there was anywhere you could have bought those olives, it would be the Via Dolorosa

Going through all the alleys and shops around … you would figure it should have been possible … right?

Going through those pictures, there are many places I want to revisit, just to retake some of the pictures I’ve taken …

Like this one in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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Rishi Sankar is a Cloud HRMS Project Manager/ Solution Architect. Over the past 15+ years, he has managed to combine his overwhelming wanderlust with a desire to stay employed, resulting in continuing stints with 3 major consulting firms (IBM, Deloitte, Accenture). He documents his adventures around the world on "Ah Trini Travelogue" with pictures and stories from the road/tuk-tuk/camel/rickshaw. You can follow him on Twitter at @rishiray and on Facebook at "Ah Trini Travelogue . He doesn't like Chicken Curry but loves Curry Chicken and is always trying to find the perfect Trinidadian roti on the road. He also doesn't like cheese and kittens ... and definitely not together. E-mail from his blog is appreciated like a 35 yr old Balvenie at rishi@rishiray.com

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