Penny had resisted the idea of visiting the Holy Land, worried about what she might find there. She finally gave in and joined her husband on a Riviera Travel tour which showed her some of the best and worst of the troubled land she has been reading about in the Bible since she became a Christian forty something years ago. It was a decision she hasn't regretted and is glad to have had just a glimpse of what makes the people of Israel and Palestine who they are and why a peaceful solution seems so hard to find.