DAY 5 : TUESDAY 19 JANUARY - OVERNIGHT OUTING, ACRE

The rain meant that the gardens were closed (no chance of the view from the central terrace across the bay towards Acre...) 

But the UNESCO site itself beckoned

"Akka" is recorded in Egyptian sources in abour 2000BC, one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the Middle East, from earlier than 3000BC.  It's undergone a few lives, one assumes; the present city walls date from 1750 when the then-ruler reused the remnants of the existing Crusader walls as his foundations  

and set the Sea Gate and Land Gate into them

The sea theme looks to have inspired people...

and the city is altogether atmospheric

 
even if the weather took a turn for the worse. What the below doesn't tell you is that Duncan missed the worst of a huge wave over the sea-wall and I was laughing so hard that I missed the snap... 

And to those of you who didn't believe we'd tracked down the best hummus lunches in the country...