by thadmin | Jan 13, 2013 | Contrast, Historical, Travel
After returning from Alexandria, we had a single day left (the 10th of January), before needing to catch an ungodly-early flight on the 11th. Man, did I want to go back to Dahshur. Dahshur is a pyramid group further down the road from Giza than Saqarra – quite a...
by thadmin | Jan 9, 2013 | Historical, Travel
It should have been clear. It should not have been raining – all day let alone in Egypt at all. But I was profoundly moved by the weather as we stopped first to review the military museum at El Alamein, and then the British and Allies’ War Cemetery. I have...
by thadmin | Jan 8, 2013 | Historical, Travel
Huh. Rain in Egypt. And lots of it. I had no idea, and I guess that’s pretty naive. But its an interesting new vantage on what I had always thought of as a desert civilization. But I think I’ve had enough of it. Its made it cold enough to remind me of the...
by thadmin | Jan 7, 2013 | Travel
A few pictures from this afternoon, when Carrie and I went for a walk and were greeted by many, and warmly, and wandered through what I think was close to the downtown core of Alexandria. Number of tourists we saw besides ourselves among the thousands of people we...
by thadmin | Jan 7, 2013 | Historical, Travel
I find I really quite like Alexandria. It makes me think of what Shainghai might be like, or european even. It even has rickety, old streetcars, narrow as the streets they run on. We visited the old Roman-era catacombs (no cameras allowed, sadly) this morning, then...
