Egypt
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The Timeless Capitals: Rome, Athens, Cairo
More Details: The Timeless Capitals: Rome, Athens, CairoI have traveled to a good bunch of countries and hope to add more over time. Most of the time, that means I have visited their capital cities even if briefly. Rare is the case where I have not visited a capital city of a country I have been to. Honduras, Mexico and the Dominican…
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Boarding Pass Stories: Constantinople! OK, Istanbul
More Details: Boarding Pass Stories: Constantinople! OK, IstanbulThe destination, the when(s), and the reason(s) My knack for taking one trip idea and expanding its scope is not a recent event. That’s how I ended last year exploring a country I may have never visited otherwise: Moldova. It pre-dates my travel blogging days by a bit. As I joined a group of friends…
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7 Super Photos from My Travels
More Details: 7 Super Photos from My TravelsMy seven super photos below show the some of the things that amazed me and the memories I cherish from my many travels. I think I was tagged for this a few months ago. I can tell because I had begun placing candidate photos in a special folder but I couldn’t find a post… Thanks…
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Can’t a Guy Just Get Out of the Sinai Peninsula? Please?
More Details: Can’t a Guy Just Get Out of the Sinai Peninsula? Please?Moses was not the only one trying to get out of Egypt… There are three travel stories of mine that family and friends greatly enjoy, remind me of, and ask to re-tell. One is easier to tell than the other and it involved a monkey and me in Tanzania. But that is for another day… …
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Photo(s) of the Week – Going down the Nile in a Felucca
More Details: Photo(s) of the Week – Going down the Nile in a FeluccaMany moons ago I went to Egypt for the first time, deciding -on a whim- to join several co-workers who had planned to go for 7-10 days with no plans other than a plane ticket. Among the many things we did, we hired a felucca to take us around for 24 hrs from Aswan to a point…
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Photo of the Week – New for the Blog!
More Details: Photo of the Week – New for the Blog!A new add-on to the blog… I have so many pictures from the places I have been to… since pictures sometimes say more than 1,000 words (or “1K” words to be more modern…), I’d thought I’d share them. No use just having them on my laptop! Though I will not be able to post the…
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Visiting Old Cairo – and Feeling Cairo
More Details: Visiting Old Cairo – and Feeling CairoI am fortunate to have visited Cairo two times: once in 1998 and then in 2007. The first with friends and the second for work. However, while we hit some of the key places to see in Cairo in the first trip, one grave mistake was not to explore Old Cairo… Old Cairo is the…