Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Food, King's Valley, Luxor West Bank on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
After Abydos, we had a slow and lazy start to the day, but by lunchtime Robin and I were once more in the Valley of the Kings ready to get back to our self-imposed study of the tombs. We were now into the Rameside tombs of Dynasty 20 and today it was to be the joint tomb [...]
After visiting Abydos yesterday I had been thinking about Omm Sety, a remarkable lady who lived for almost quarter of a century at her house near Abydos Temple.
Dorothy Louise Eady was born in London in 1904 and from an early age discovered an affinity for everything ancient Egyptian. Much of her story is described in [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Middle Egypt, Travel, tagged Abydos, Dendera, Temple on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Tuesday 10 March 1998
For many years, long before I first came to Egypt, I had wanted to visit the Temple of Seti I at Abydos. I had a friend who used to tell me stories about Omm Sety, an English lady who had had a particular relationship with Abydos and the pharaoh [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Food, Shopping on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Monday 9 March 1998
I had been in Egypt for a week but as usual it felt like I had been here forever. The el-Gezira Hotel had become home and our forays each day to the Valley of the Kings and to spend time with old and new friends on the West Bank [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Local Customs, Luxor, Travel, tagged King's Valley, Luxor West Bank on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Sunday 8 March 1998
Robin and I spent a lazy morning reading on the hotel roof. We had had a late night and couldn’t stir ourselves to do very much this morning so we put the time to good use writing up our notes and discussing the kings tombs we had seen so [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, tagged King's Valley, Luxor West Bank on October 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The morning dawned clear again, last night’s wind and sand had disappeared, leaving a thick dust on the balcony and piles of rubbish in corners of the street. In England I’m hopeless at getting up in the morning, but here in Egypt I feel like I don’t want to miss a minute of the day. [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged King's Valley, Luxor West Bank on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Thursday 5 March 1998
Today, just for a change, Robin and I went to the King’s Valley in the morning instead of the afternoon. There were a few people around, but you could easily miss them among the cliffs and little hidden wadis. Hamdi the inspector met us again at the gate and [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged King's Valley, Luxor West Bank, tombs on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Staying on the West Bank is very convenient - except there is always the occasion when you want to pop over to Luxor, which Robin and I did this morning on the public ferry. We met up with our English friend David and Delia, a friend of his, who both have homes in Egypt. Lunch [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, tombs on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Tuesday 3 March 1998
Ancient Egypt existed as a duality. To everything there were two aspects, positive and negative, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, the river and the desert, day and night. All things were in balance and one could not exist without the other. Robin and I found this out for ourselves [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Luxor, Travel on October 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Tuesday 3 March 1998
The el-Gezira is a small Egyptian family run hotel in the village of Gezira, the place you pass through when you get off the public ferry. Robin and I chose this hotel because of its friendly atmosphere, its proximity to the ferry and the ease of getting to the [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Luxor, tagged Luxor West Bank on October 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Monday 2 March 1998
On our Spring trip to Egypt, Robin and I decided to plan flight and accommodation ourselves rather than book with a travel company and we began to our make arrangements at the end of 1997. It was just as well we wanted a DIY holiday, because there were very [...]
Posted in 1997, Egypt, Luxor, tagged Deir el-Bahri, Luxor West Bank, terrorism on October 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Once more it was with great sadness that I left Luxor on October 20th 1997 to travel back to England. Part of me had been left behind in Egypt, as it always was, in what had become my ‘home from home’. This wonderful country had got under my skin and I would miss so much [...]
Su's detailed descriptions and photographs of Egyptian Monuments
|
