Egypt - over and out, for now
Waiting for my flight in a strange, strange lounge, a picture of a certain side of Egypt. Everything quite tatty and dog-eared, the air a...
Muizz street
... beautifully re-cobbled, stringed with peaceful little areas such as this one
Wish I were in Fishawy
not so far off as it happens as I'm writing this from a plush hotel in Heliopolis, Cairo - but it seems a world away from the streets of...
last Egypt post - from layover in Zurich
had a vey nasty fright with my gear yesterday after Saqqara + Fishawy + walks in Islamic Cairo. took the SD card out of my Fuji X100s,...
just a random musing...
Just finished reading a New Yorker article about a particular sculptor. Got me thinking about two books I recently bought, both in the...
ageing in Egypt
Things seem to have their own way of ageing in Egypt. On a rational level it likely has to do with the climate and natural sand-blasting,...
Saqqara !
A huge, wonderful sight. Quite hard to find though. On this and my previous visit some years ago, the taxi driver had to ask several...
Coffee mishap in Fishawy
Went to Saqqara (step pyramid) this morning - more on that later perhaps. On the way back, stopped at Fishawy, the mother of all...
