Category: Holidays

An excursion we were booked for on Monday somehow got cancelled But Judith phoned up the organiser and explained the misunderstanding and rebooked for Tuesday after we checked into the hotel. It is a simple plan to make acquaintances by people inviting tourists in to the home for meals. They cook a dinner and you…

Today we had a boat trip by felucca across the Nile to be picked up by a motor boat to take us down into the rapids, or cataracts as they are called. It was a lovely tour of this part of the Nile and lots of birds were pointed out to us but I only…

Today we are in Aswan the city. The boat seem pretty empty as two early morning tour went out all day. We are booked on to an evening High Tea at the Cataract Hotel at 4,30pm to watch the sunset over the Nile. The hotel was built by the British in 1899. A favourite of…

So we have started sailing down the Nile with it’s changing scenery. Some of the shore line seems to be covered on crops while other sections have small villages and a highway running down parallel to the river. But last night coming down we had to moor up off shore and the local sales people…