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July 1st, 2010 | Africa

Egyptian Road (Un)Safety…

Cellphones are actually considered as part of the driving experience in Egypt…

One of the hieroglyphics that Egyptologists are yet to decipher… This sign seems to encourage them to go faster…

There are a host of unusual road signs in Egypt… The vast majority of them undecipherable, because they are written […]

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 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 […]

May 18th, 2010 | Africa

Moyale…

The truck breaks down just a short distance from the Al-Yusra Hotel… Not a good start to the day…

When I woke this morning, I felt as though I had been ridden over by a truck, rather than sitting in one for 30 hours… The muscles in my back and shoulders, arms and […]

May 15th, 2010 | Africa

Heading North…

Today I will be leaving the extremely comfortable and pleasant environs of Karen, Nairobi, where I have spent the last week safely ensconced in the hospitality and generosity of Angela and Roger Gauntlett, and their two delightful daughters, Gemma and Abby, and heading north through the “Badlands of Northern Kenya”…

I have been told that […]

May 14th, 2010 | Africa

The Gauntlett Girls…

Having spent the last week entwined in the lives of Gemma and Abby Gauntlett, has been great fun, but has also served as a reminder to me of what I lost out on with my own daughters… So while the games of UNO and Top-Trumps were being played, Chameleons were being searched for, homework was […]