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Thread: I finished watching Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem documentary series last night.

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    I finished watching Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem documentary series last night.

    Overall I thought it was very good. Doubtless many will have objections based on political and/or religious preferences, as after all, he is trying to be fair, balanced and unbiased towards all sides, but I was impressed. And then spent the night sleeping terribly with constant nightmares about endless battles and conflicts in the holy city.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Overall I thought it was very good. Doubtless many will have objections based on political and/or religious preferences, as after all, he is trying to be fair, balanced and unbiased towards all sides, but I was impressed. And then spent the night sleeping terribly with constant nightmares about endless battles and conflicts in the holy city.
    Theoretically, I quite fancy visiting Jerusalem due to all the history and that.

    However, I strongly suspect that, as a tourist destination, it’s a fùcking dump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Theoretically, I quite fancy visiting Jerusalem due to all the history and that.

    However, I strongly suspect that, as a tourist destination, it’s a fùcking dump.
    I went a few years ago - it does suffer a bit from that in places but still some magnificent sights. Really weird standing outside the Garden of Gethsemane and realising **** it's all real. The Wailing wall is a giggle as well. Was only there on a daytrip from Egypt (literally a day - left the hotel at 2am arrived back 2am next day, press trips, eh).

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    I watched Starkey's Reformation documentary and was disappointed to realise it wasn't a several parter.

    It basically ended with Thomas More getting the Allan treatment to his neck, which seemed a rather abrupt moment to close the story.



    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Overall I thought it was very good. Doubtless many will have objections based on political and/or religious preferences, as after all, he is trying to be fair, balanced and unbiased towards all sides, but I was impressed. And then spent the night sleeping terribly with constant nightmares about endless battles and conflicts in the holy city.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Theoretically, I quite fancy visiting Jerusalem due to all the history and that.

    However, I strongly suspect that, as a tourist destination, it’s a fùcking dump.
    A friend went on his own, and didn't realise how dangerous it was wandering in the muslim quarter until he was part of a group that got a Palestinian police guard. He wasn't allowed in or even near the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome on the Rock because he was Christian and therefore unclean.

    Amazing architecture though in the old city.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A friend went on his own, and didn't realise how dangerous it was wandering in the muslim quarter until he was part of a group that got a Palestinian police guard. He wasn't allowed in or even near the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome on the Rock because he was Christian and therefore unclean.

    Amazing architecture though in the old city.
    Wouldn't have fancied it on my own, I have to say. Are these docs on the Beeb?

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    Did you think the Holy Book was some kind of

    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Really weird standing outside the Garden of Gethsemane and realising **** it's all real. .
    fairy tale? I'll cut out your blaspheming tongue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
    fairy tale? I'll cut out your blaspheming tongue.
    Of course, the whole God thing is - the settings are true though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Wouldn't have fancied it on my own, I have to say. Are these docs on the Beeb?
    BBC4 is your friend
    10 characters? Pile of cund.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Wouldn't have fancied it on my own, I have to say. Are these docs on the Beeb?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01852x1

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