Windmills

• Afodi Street runs one block from MiTudela straight to Alfasi Street (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/lanes.html ). A little way along, on my right, above a hidden garden, I saw a miniature windmill, on a tower somewhat taller than an NBA player. Its vanes turned. I could not tell if they were catching a breeze or making one.
• I turned right on Alfasi and followed it as it curved up and around to cross ben Maimon and become ibn Ezra Street. Shaded benches line the walkway in ben Maimon’s boulevard strip. Where the strip ends, I turned left on Arlosorof, then right on Ramban where Arlosorof becomes ibn Gavirol. (More on street names later.) Just before the (Prima) Kings Hotel, on the left, is another windmill, the size of a small house, its vanes ever stationary (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/rehavia-windmill.html ). The Greek Orthodox Curch built it and for many years ran it.
• The Windmill Hotel (a quiet, friendly place now known as the Prima Royale) on Mendele Street is three blocks from the nearest windmill, but its name is in the spirit of the neighborhood.
• http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/montefiores-windmill.html is about the full-sized windmill most tourists associate with Jerusalem. Rumors that it never worked are false.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox