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June 21st, 2010 | Africa

The Heat is ON…!!

These are just a few of the Schweppes products on offer…

Fanta Apple… Best by the litre…!!!

Cairo has been in the grip of a heat wave since the day I arrived here… Gareth measured 47 ° Celsius yesterday and it did not get much cooler today… I thought about Khalid, […]

June 20th, 2010 | Africa

Cairo…!! Better late than Never !!

The Cleopatra Hotel in El Minya, guarded day and night…

As soon as I stepped out onto the sidewalk outside the Cleopatra Hotel, I knew that today was going to be a scorcher…

Inside the lobby of the hotel, the temperature read 34 °… It was 7.30 am…!! I squinted down the road […]

June 19th, 2010 | Africa

The Hot ride to Hell Minya…

Big Fella had this old geezer to talk to while we stayed in Luxor…

I met Sam and Friede at breakfast, where we discussed our plans for the day… They were going to push on as far as El Faiyum, while I had decided that I would rather cut the ride to Cairo […]

June 17th, 2010 | Africa

Livid in Luxor…

My Egyptian Drivers Licence…

Khalid and I left The Hotel Hathor together, and rode out of Aswan in convoy on our way to Luxor, about 280 km north of where we had spent the last week.

After a few minutes, I realized that I could go a lot faster through the traffic than […]

June 15th, 2010 | Africa

Scenes from Aswan…

My time in Aswan had come to an end, and the road to the North was calling…

Here are a few more photos I took while in Aswan to prove that I did not spend my days snoozing in my hotel room…

The Coptic Monastery of St Simeon…

This Monastery was built in […]

June 14th, 2010 | Africa

The Ordeal at Customs…

"You will wait outside until you are summoned… !! And stop asking so many questions…!!" Khalid and Sam cool their heels outside Aswan Port

If you ever want your patience tested, then dealing with the Port Authorities at Aswan, will do very nicely…

Kamal collected us at our respective hotels at 8.30am and […]