This week on a trip to Israel for my job, I went with my coworkers to the port of Jaffa. You may recognize the name as the city from which Jonah is supposed to have left on his fateful voyage. It’s also the city in which Andromeda was chained to a rock in sacrifice to a sea monster only to be rescued by Perseus. It was a neat place to visit.
This is a picture of a giant photograph hung on a wall outside a gallery. I joked about sending this to my family, who were worried about my being in Israel.
The graffiti on this wall is really weird.
This very old looking tower was undergoing repairs.
Several of the streets in Jaffa were like this, rising and falling and constructed all of stone.
This is inset in one of the walls of the city (there are others like it).
The rock you see more or less in the center here is reportedly the rock Andromeda was chained to as a sacrifice to a sea monster.
Just a neat manhole cover.
This is the center of an inlay in the street by the marina showing various cities as they’re oriented relative to Jaffa.
We had a leisurely lunch in town.
This was part of a big mural.
A weird scene to encounter in a part of the city so full of old things.
Two Ells 