Posted in 2000, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Karnak, Temples on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Journal: Wednesday 8 March 2000
Today Jenny and I were up early because we wanted to get to Karnak before the crowds, but by 8.00am the temple was already busy when we arrived. I had recently become very interested in the religious role of ‘God’s Wife of Amun’ so I set off for the northern part [...]
Posted in 2000, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Mythology, Travel, tagged Amenhotep III, Luxor, Temple on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Tuesday 7 March 2000
This morning dawned clear and warm, like a glorious summer’s day in England. Perfect! I was woken early by the call of the muezzin ’s prayer to discover that a mosque is right next door with a loudspeaker on the minaret pointing straight at our window. While some might find this [...]
Posted in 2000, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor, Radwan Hotel on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Monday 6 March 2000
It’s a new millennium, or is it? I thought that was next year, but hey, everyone seemed to be celebrating the end of the century at New Year. Anyway, I’m back in Egypt with my friend Jenny. Just like me, Jenny couldn’t wait to get back here and we started making [...]
Posted in 1999, Egypt, Luxor, Travel on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Wednesday 27 October 1999
The century is coming to an end and so is my visit to Egypt. As I often do on my last day, I got up early to watch the sunrise. Sitting out on the balcony in the mild morning air, I couldn’t see the sun but its effect on the Theban [...]
Posted in 1999, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, Medinet Habu, Min, Sokar, Temples on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Tuesday 26 October 1999
On our last full day in Egypt, we again returned to my favourite temple, the mortuary temple of Rameses III at Medinet Habu on the West Bank. We made the familiar journey over the river on the tireless workhorse that is the passenger ferry, with its battered decks strewn with any [...]
Posted in 1999, Egypt, Local Customs, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor, Shopping on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Monday 25 October 1999
This morning Jenny and I walked along the Luxor Corniche to the Mummification Museum, a relatively new museum that I hadn’t visited before. It is housed by the river in a very modern building which is entered down steps to river level. Unfortunately when we got there it was closed and [...]
Posted in 1999, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Temples on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Sunday 24 October 1999
Yesterday Jenny and I spent the day with friends. We took a bus to el-Arabet and visited my friend David in his house there, spending a lovely morning with him drinking his coffee while he read us some of his fabulous short stories about life in an Egyptian village. Later back [...]
Posted in 1999, Archaeology, Aswan, Egypt, Travel, tagged Isis, Philae, Temple on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Friday 22 October 1999
The 7.00am bus to Aswan was a big mistake. Jenny and I had shunned the air-conditioned ‘Superjet’ as being too touristy and instead, bought tickets on the less expensive but slower ‘Kul‘, or local bus. The tickets cost us LE6 (60p) return for a journey lasting about three hours. Taking our [...]
Posted in 1999, Archaeology, Egypt, Luxor, Travel, tagged Luxor West Bank, Rameses II, Temples on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal: Thursday 21 October 1999
Last night Jenny and I had been invited to dinner at the home of Jennifer, who lives on the West Bank. We had a lovely evening with good food and good conversation and lots of music and laughter. At some point we got onto the subject of camels and how much [...]
Posted in 1999, Egypt, Luxor, Mythology, tagged Amenhotep III, Egyptian gods, Re, Sekhmet on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Journal: Wednesday 20 October 1999
I don’t know what it is that attracts me to the goddess Sekhmet. When all is said and done she is a nasty piece of work, the instrument of vengeance used against mankind by the sun god Re. I was thinking about Sekhmet today when Jenny and I visited the destroyed [...]
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