Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Food, Luxor West Bank, Ramose, tombs on November 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Friday 20 March 1998
On Friday morning I woke with a guilty feeling because I should have been at work this weekend. I work as a florist and Sunday is Mother’s day - the busiest time of the year when the rest of the staff would be working 16 hours a day and [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, Medinet Habu, Osiris, Temple on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Thursday 19 March 1998
Robin and I decided to spend another day at the Temple of Rameses III at Medinet Habu. The sky was clearer today and there would be a good light for photographing the beautiful colourful reliefs in the temple. We took an arabeya up to the ticket office and bought [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, tagged King's Valley, Luxor West Bank on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I was sitting on the hotel roof terrace looking through my notes and trying to make sense of the scenes I had spent my time looking at in the tombs. It was useful to have visited the royal tombs in chronological order as I could now list the progression of the funerary art. When I [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Deir el-Medina, Luxor West Bank, Temple on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Wednesday 18 March 1998
Wednesday morning was a little clearer and the horrible wind that swept everything before it had weakened overnight, so Robin & I crossed the river on the ferry to the East Bank to meet up with David at the Amoun restaurant for a coffee. Some of his English ex-pat [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, tombs on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Tuesday 17 March 1998
When I woke up next morning the sky was a little clearer but the weather was still windy and cool and a thick layer of dust covered everything, even in our hotel room. I was still feeling guilty and a little shocked at being stuck here in Egypt when [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Egyptair, Luxor airport on November 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Monday 16 March 1998
I had arranged for a taxi to come to collect me from the Gezira Hotel at 6.00am to catch my flight back to England which was scheduled to leave Luxor airport at 8.30am. It was still quite dark when I left for the long journey over the bridge to [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged King's Valley, Luxor West Bank, tombs on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Sunday 15 March 1998
Robin was staying here another week but I was due to return home next day, so we needed to go to the King’s Valley to visit the last two open tombs we had not yet seen and to complete our study. These were the tombs of Rameses VII and [...]
Posted in 1998, Egypt, Local Customs, Luxor, Travel on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Friday 13 March 1998
There was a partial lunar eclipse this morning and I had fully intended to get up to see it, but at 5.00am I sleepily decided that it was so partial it was not worth dragging myself out of bed so early. Robin and I had arranged with our English friend [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, tombs on November 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Thursday 12 March 1998
After a morning in Luxor doing a little shopping, Robin and I crossed back to the West Bank and decided to visit Qurna where the Theban elite had their tombs. These tomb chapels of the noblemen are very different to the royal tombs in the King’s Valley and made [...]
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