Category Travel
Luxor temple at night
We visited the Karnak temple early in the morning to beat the heat. After lunch and an air-conditioned nap back on the boat, we headed out again to see the Luxor temples at dusk. The Luxor temples aren’t quite as old as Karnak (only 3,000 years instead of 4,000 years) and are on a slightly […]
Catching up! Let’s start with the temples of Karnak
Sitting here in grey, rainy London (I flew back from Cairo yesterday) the sun and heat and sand of Egypt feel very far away! But before the memories dim I want to linger a bit longer on the highlights of our journey last week — let’s start with the temples of Karnak . . . […]
We’re back in Cairo!
Between the last post and this one, we visited temples and sweated in tombs and cruised up the Nile and wrestled a crocodile — all without Internet. So more on that stuff later. But we’re finally back to Cairo and Internet for one last night. It’ll be an early morning tomorrow as we head out […]
Egyptian museum
Before visiting the pyramids we spent the morning at the Egyptian Museum, which is a late 19th Century museum stuffed to the gills with more mind-blowing antiquities than you can believe. In a whirlwind tour with our guide, we all all the greatest hits. Rameses, Hatshepsut, Tutankamen, the pet mummies, and all the other fascinating […]
Pyramids!
I saw and touched and went inside one of the seven wonders of the ancient world! Pretty incredible. The Great Pyramid was built some 4,500 years ago. That’s mind-blowing to me. I mean, woolly mammoths were around for roughly another 1,000 after it was built. That’s farther before the birth of Christ than we are […]
We made it
It’s only 4.5 hours from London to Cairo. Deplaning and getting through immigration and customs was an adventure. Not only were we dealing with different norms for standing in line (you had Americans and Brits on one orderly extreme, the Chinese on the far opposite end, and the Egyptians somewhere in the middle), but the […]
Look who I found at the airport
Hooray for layovers! I’m distracting her from jet lag by plying her with curried chicken and questions about the job change.
Vacation begins now
It’s 10pm. I have just shut down my work computer and I leave for the airport in 12 hours. Time to start packing! (P.S. Is now the right time to wonder whether all my shots from traveling in Asia and South America will cover me on a cruise up the Nile?)
The food was better this time
While I remember very little of what I saw in Munich when I was here in 2003, I remember very clearly that I did not eat well. My bank account by that time was running nearly on fumes, and I remember sometimes surviving on bananas and Twix for days at a time. Fortunately this time, […]
Exploring Munich’s centre ville
The last time I visited Munich was nearly 15 years ago. It was the summer of 2003 and I had just finished school in France and was backpacking Europe before flying back to the US. I had no money and was still shooting film on my old Olympus camera. And while I remember the feel […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 