by thadmin | Dec 24, 2012 | Travel
Yesterday was not too much more than a 4 hour drive through scrub desert and hills between Hurghada on the coast and inland to Luxor (on the Nile). We stopped once for a break and I leapt out and made across the blacktop to some hills on the far side and scrambled up...
by thadmin | Dec 22, 2012 | Travel
As reported yesterday, we did indeed drive out to a monastery in the desert, just not the one we intended. Turns out St. Anthony’s Monastery(“Ambo Toni”) is on-the-way to St. Paul’s, and like all well-laid plans, entailed a detour to this place...
by thadmin | Dec 21, 2012 | Nature, Travel
I am not a luxury type of person, never have been. Its not that I have an aversion to comfort, its more that I feel such a pervading sense of guilt at receiving what I am not due that dours my expression. Perhaps its an earning thing. I like to know that whatever I...
by thadmin | Dec 19, 2012 | Travel
Today was to be little more than a rest day before travel tomorrow. However, we had managed only twenty minutes or less in the Souk the other day and were dismayed by this and so made an effort to get there today. The Khan al Khalili is divided more or less into two...
by thadmin | Dec 18, 2012 | Historical, Travel
Well really, this post should be called just Mosques. We were unable to use our cameras inside the Churches we visited today (and the same for the one synagogue we walked through – first time ever in a synagogue!). Oh well, what could I do but make dreadful...
by thadmin | Dec 17, 2012 | Historical, Joy, Travel
While its true the Egyptian Museum was first on our list to visit today, we were unable to take cameras into the building as it is forbidden to do so. We toured the museum in..an hour and a half..? We pressed on quickly as the kids became tired. Owen was enthusiastic,...
