Union Hotel Alexandria

... there are literally thousands of tourist police in Egypt, most carrying some sort of automatic weapon. They are there to help tourists (although not all speak English) and, mainly, to provide some sort of security (or image of security). They were instituted after terrorists massacred 58 tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in the Valley of the Kings in 1997. It crippled tourism in Egypt for a number of years. Since that time, there have not been any ...

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We awoke early Saturday morning to take the train to Alexandria. Maybe not the best decision in light of the recent news dealing with Egyptian trains, but it was a problem-free ride that was actually quite comfortable. We arrived in Alexandria to find a very different city from Cairo. The skies were blue, the roads were more open, and, oh yeah, there was a really big sea visible from most of the tourist ...

... foods, Mcdonalds, KFC etc. A guy selling tea from a huge jug will make his way through the streets, so that Alexandrians can pay for a mint tea from a communial cup. Or if you prefer you can sit yourself down in an ahwa- a traditional coffeehouse- likely hundreds of years old, dusty and very smoky inside but exuding lots of charm and history. Dave and I spent time in many of these ahwas, enjoying our shai (tea) or turkish coffee ...

... most of the young women work.) I hope we get to see the inside of a home. BTW, our hotel is the Ramses Hilton and except for the bidet, it looks like any other western hotel. 8:30pm. We are back from a wonderful visit to Alexandria. Beautiful city. Very clean compared to Cairo which is quite dirty and trashy. A couple of governors ago, Alexandria went through a transformation and cleaned itself up. Now it sparkles along the Mediterranean Sea. I did not ...

POLSKI: Kochani! Zycze Wam wszystkim Szczesliwego Nowego Roku, oby opieral sie na pozytywnych myslach i dobrych doswiadczeniach. Niech przyniesie wspaniale niespodzianki i cudowne chwile! Sle buziaki z Morza Srodziemnego, gdzies miedzy Egiptem (gdzie bylam wczoraj), a Sycylia (gdzie bede za 2 dni). Cmok! Bogna ENGLISH: My dears ...

Good afternoon everybody.  Mr and Mrs R back again after a prolonged absence.  Another chapter in our travels closes next Tuesday as we leave Egypt and fly to Greece.  (That is, providing this part of the world still exists next Tuesday given Dubya and Baby-Tony's latest nonsense.  Can't someone back there in England keep him quiet?  It used to be enjoyable to tune into the UK news on the internet.) We have spent 95 mainly happy days in Egypt.  Our lifestyle has taken on a definite ...