Egypt
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Wednesday, 30 Jan 2008 | Views [161] | Comments [1]
We had a few things to do in the morning - so got up quite early and went out for a quick breakfast. Croissants from a baker we liked and then had a coffee and other snacks at an Internet Cafe that had been a regular haunt in Cairo. Checked our email ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Sunday, 27 Jan 2008 | Views [126]
It had been raining quite heavily in Cairo mainly overnight and the city clearly wasn't used to that. The streets were flooded, the drainage system let it down. Perhaps after the long dry time ahead there were many blockages. We decided to take a self ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Saturday, 26 Jan 2008 | Views [132]
25/1: Alexandria The routine of our lazy days continued. Julian slept while Tim and I went out for breakfast and did our exploring of the city. We collected Julian at around 11 and after his breakfast we made our way to the Alexandria library. The ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thursday, 24 Jan 2008 | Views [114]
It was another long cold bus trip - we left dahab at 10:00 pm and travelled through the night. Again stopping every few hours it seemed for various ticket and passport checks. It was very cold and uncomfortable, though the bus wasn't very full and we ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Wednesday, 23 Jan 2008 | Views [125]
Not much to tell really - we spent a long lazy time just hanging around in Dahab which is on the eastern side of the Sinai Peninsular - across the gulf (and the red sea) is Saudi Arabia. The first day's weather was lovely and warm with little wind ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Saturday, 19 Jan 2008 | Views [117]
So the next day just slipped by. Julian slept in, Tim and I had a long
lazy breakfast and walked around the foreshore. There was a big table
of guests in the breakfast room, mainly from Europe and a couple of
North Americans so we spent some time chatting ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Friday, 18 Jan 2008 | Views [151] | Comments [1]
The bus ride to Dahab was long and uncomfortable. For some reason we
had been issued four separate tickets for each leg of the trip - though
it was a single bus that went all the way through. Every two or three
hours during the night therefore the ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Thursday, 17 Jan 2008 | Views [211]
Despite him having been at the valley of the kings the previous day we lured Julian into coming with us by choosing to ride donkeys. He had made his own way to the west bank the day before and hired a bicycle and thus got further than Tim & I who ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wednesday, 16 Jan 2008 | Views [135]
Monday: After a night interupted by street noises, calls to prayer and the worst matress of the trip we were able to move rooms to a quieter more comfortable room in the back of the hotel. We had breakfast on the roof then a second breakfast at an expensive ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sunday, 13 Jan 2008 | Views [152]
We felt a little short changed by the Felucca captain though not terribly and were generally happy - it had been reasonable, but the meals weren't great and the extras had been overpriced. Also we realised that we hadn't travelled very far by Felucca ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
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