Saturday, 5 Feb 2011 | Views [1247] | Comments [1]
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 I returned to southwest Cairo after two nights in Bahariya Oasis, and as my taxi crawled up the road along the west bank of the Nile I noted the presence of a number of blue vans, with riot police inside or milling about.... Read more >
Sunday, 30 Jan 2011 | Views [632]
[NOTE: The paragraphs below were written in mid January, well before the current crisis, but I had a lot of trouble with the shape of the posting; the solution was to excise about 3/4 of what was written, including the fifth expatriate ... Read more >
Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011 | Views [525]
Deja Vu I
keep seeing the same backpackers. Now admittedly I sometimes appear to be
mildly prosopagnosic. For some reason it took me six months or so to
learn to distinguish Sophie Marceau from Catherine Zeta Jones, and the
words ... Read more >
Wednesday, 29 Dec 2010 | Views [675] | Comments [2]
Arrival First Class on the
ferry to Nuweiba is at the prow, spacious and uncrowded with a cafeteria
and the opportunity to buy freshly-cooked box meals. Almost half of
its passengers were backpackers, and the remainder well-heeled ... Read more >
