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 1998, Aswan, Egypt, Travel, tagged Philae, Temple on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Sunday 1 November 1998
On Sunday morning Kit and I were up early and leaving our bags in the hotel reception to collect later, we took a taxi to Philae Port. I had been to Philae several times before, but only with a tour group, so this visit was a journey into the [...]
Posted in 1998, Archaeology, Aswan, Egypt, Travel, tagged Museums, tombs on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Journal entry for Saturday 31 October 1998
Once again Kit and I had made use of our ISIC cards, this time to buy half-price train tickets to Aswan, splashing out all of LE 15 (about £1.50) to travel first class. We were at Luxor railway station bright and early to catch the 6.30am train, which for [...]
Posted in 1996, Aswan, Egypt, Nile Cruise on August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Named after the first Nile cataract, the rocky un-navigable part of the river, the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan is probably most famous to the English as the place which is said to have inspired Agatha Christie to write her novel ‘Death on the Nile’ in the 1930s. Later the early scenes from the movie [...]
Posted in 1996, Archaeology, Aswan, Egypt, Nile Cruise on August 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The storm of the previous night had cleared by morning and we had had a fine day. I went to Philae Temple with my group, my second visit there, and saw much more than I had last year, with a slightly greater knowledge of what I was looking at. The sheer magnificence of the setting [...]
Posted in 1995, Aswan, Egypt, Nile Cruise on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
My sixth day began with another of those clear mornings when the air is very fresh, even though there had apparently been no rain for several years and all the trees and flowering plants along the Corniche were shrouded in a thick mantle of dust. A large felucca had been hired to take us sailing [...]
Posted in 1995, Aswan, Egypt, Nile Cruise on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
In the evening my friends and I visited Sharia el-Suq, the main bazaar in Aswan. It was dark by 6.00pm. at that time of year but even late in the evening I could still feel the lingering breath of the day’s heat, though the Egyptians were wrapped up in thick scarves and shawls - after [...]
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