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Hectic first day in Egypt
... next day feeling refreshed and better about life in Egypt we left the hotel without police protection. Bonus! So we headed to the war memorials of Al Alamein, again very moving to think what happened there, and the fact that our relatives fought there.
We spent the night in Alexandria on the northern coast. Nice town running along the seafront, but very run down and dilapidated. Must have been a very nice place in it's ...
Day 19 – Alexandria and the Mediterranean Co
... at Zawyet Um el-Rakham. It is nothing special, but it will save us about six hours tomorrow morning. The woman that greeted us was very friendly; so many people along the way have asked us to think of them as family. She had picked us fresh flowers and supplied us with a bottle of Sprite and water. We are on the fifth floor and there is an elevator. However, it doesn’t work. As we started up the steps, it reminded ...
Shutting down
... to Morgan's apartment to take showers (none of us were willing to bathe in those rooms in Marsa Matrouh!) We ordered some food (you can have ANYTHING delivered in Cairo!) and I went straight to bed. Marianne and Ekramy went out on their own for a while. I set my alarm for 1:45am, we met the driver at 2am and were at the airport by 2:30am. Our flight to Rome was at 4:35 Sunday ...
Day 4 - Monastaries & Memorials
... seen of the desert. The novelty soon wore off though and before long we were bored of the continual emptiness with not so much as a hill in sight! I nodded off for a few minutes before we arrived at the museum. We were shown a short demonstration of the key moments in the battle before being allowed to wander around. The museum was not very good in my opinion and could have done with some funding to bring it up to the standard it deserves. From here, ...
Greater love hath no man than this
... cemetery and I set off with Mohamed in search of Uncle Laurie's grave. The grave location that I had from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission had roman numerals in it which I found strange because none of the graves that I was looking at had roman numerals on them. I was hurrying to find it as we didn't have much time and I didn't want to come all that way not to find it. I was getting upset so Mohamed went to see if he could find someone to help me. ...
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