Palace Hotel
Travel Blogs from Port Said
Nov 17, 2012
... in the sarcophagus. I just couldn't pass up the chance to have done it. Good thing they took my camera. Im not sure what else I would have done. Lunch (David) after seeing the sphinx we were all hot tired and most of all hungry. in our car we were treated to lunch buckets, just like the ones hanging from the trees in Return to Oz, only instead of jelly sandwiches there was a delicious combination of pasta, rice, lentils and onions. The lentils portrayed meat with ...
Dolphins cheer you up!
... but the schedule published on the bridge has us arriving in Hong Kong on 22nd February, so I am guessing we will crack on as soon as we are through the canal. I know for sure that we will burn some oil at the bottom of the Red Sea as it is difficult, if not impossible for small boats to come alongside a ship that is travelling at over 18 knots, and we will exceed that by 30%.
There has been a marked absence of other shipping over the last few days ...
Other Hikes: Port Said (1025)
... Cairo coming desperately in need of fresh air.
I stop in a park with a big obelisk in the center to go ahead and play my set. To my pleasant surprise, I’m joined by a couple of young ladies who listen from a respectable distance. Then I continue on… to the Suez Canal itself.
The Suez Canal… the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and Asia… where thousands of ships squeeze through, moving ...
1025. Crossroads of the World (Egy 021)
... caters to tourists—but not foreign tourists… this is more for the middle and upper class folks from Cairo coming desperately in need of fresh air.
I stop in a park with a big obelisk in the center to go ahead and play my set. To my pleasant surprise, I’m joined by a couple of young ladies who listen from a respectable distance. Then I continue on… to the Suez Canal itself.
The Suez Canal… ...
Day 34
... choice of hats so had to be satisfied with what they had to offer.
I have developed a cough & cold so went to see the doctor to get some linctus.
She gave me two - one during the day and one for night so I can sleep.
The cough & cold is raging on the ship so what hope have you got.
It was Pizza for dinner tonight & then saw the Sail Away.
Bedtime now so Good ...