----- Original Message ----- From: "Eris Reddoch"> During another hour of driving along the convoluted coastal highway you > pass several more small beach/inland villages. Sometimes the villages > are clearly older fishing villages and at other times the villages were > mainly fishing villages, but are now there mostly to service the estates > along the beach and inland up the hills. > > Finally, Lysia slows down and turns to the right, away from the shore, > driving up a smaller side road into the hills overlooking the ocean. > Here the land is rolling hills with small valleys between them. Small > groves of trees are interspersed with vineyards and fruit orchards > growing on the sides of the hills. You can see large mansions back away > from the road surrounded by stone walls...and probably more modern, and > less visible, security measures. > > Lysia turns off the road at one of them, and stops the car in front of a > closed gate of what looks like wrought iron metal bars with "House of > David" written in an arch of metal along the top of the gate. A > security monitor and call box can be seen on the stone post holding up > one side of the gate.


