[nunya bidness]

Reminds me of the movie, "Mystery Train."

Elvisa! Cawl Pewkins!

[ASTM366]

These two are definitely hardcore tourist.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Israel has been keeping up the psychological pressure on those holed up inside the church, bombarding it with ear-splitting, shrieking noises which aim to disorientate those inside.

They got the Rosi O of the West Bank on tape Ullululululu-ing them into insanity?!!! Good going IDF, aim it right back at 'em!

[Cultural Jihad]

One can easily imagine the scene: Japanese couple traveling without the benefit of media; the taxi driver willing to take their Yen but who couldn't be bothered to even try to tell them that it is dangerous there.

[VOA]

"We have been on the road for the last six months and we did not watch television or
read the newspapers," Mr Makano told reporters.

So much for the ascendancy of The Empire of The Rising Sun.

I don't think we need to worry about Japan buying up the USA if this represents
even a small percentage of the new generation of Japanese.

(and some articles I've read would indicate they might be the poster children for
the long, slow, inexorable decline of Japan)

[Cicero]

We were in Portugal with our kids one summer when they had Communist anti-colonial riots and a cholera epidemic. Aside from a few red scrawls on the wall, we didn't notice a thing.

[harpo11]

I wish I knew how to say "dunderheads" in Japanese.

God Bless them though. To be so oblivious, so carefree, so uninvolved, so unaware, so into themselves...
makes one wonder is it truly possible, this happening is as it is stated?

[TxBec]

They were rescued when journalists in flak jackets saw them and pointed out the bullet-holes across buildings, the Israeli tanks and rubble which littered the streets.

It was then that the couple decided to call off their trip to one of Christianity's holiest shrines.

smart move

[McGavin999]

Poor kids. Can you imagine spending 6 months on the road just to see the place where Christ was born only to arrive while it's in the middle of a seige?

[Romulus]

"We have been on the road for the last six months and we did not watch television or read the newspapers," Mr Makano told reporters.

Adventure tourism has its own attractions.

Don't believe everything you read in the papers.

[ZinGirl]

I wonder what the next stop on their "Hot Spots of 2002" tour is.....Afghanistan...Cincinnati?

[exit82]

I wish I could have spent the Clinton years in this kind of state of blissful detachment.

[Hildy]

Well I felt like I was in a battlezone when I was in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve in 1977. The Arab men were sexually molesting every American woman they could get their disgusting hands on. Don't ever talk to me about the poor Arabs of Bethlehem.

[MeekOneGOP]

Two tourists engrossed in their guidebooks and heading for the birthplace of Jesus Christ unwittingly wandered into the centre of a war zone on Tuesday. The Japanese couple were amazed to find that Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was at the centre of a 16-day old siege between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen.

Is it Yatta bump time?............

[R. Scott]

Even when on the road I caught the news now and then!
In the Middle East, it would be mandatory.