Plaza Hotel Alexandria

... we all had to go back to the busses. Stop three was an old fort built on the ancient foundations of the Alexandria lighthouse. This famous lighthouse had guided many ships into the harbor with mirrors during the day and fire at night. Surprisingly, ...

Old Town Alexandria is a very cool place. They have lots of great stores and restaurants among the old buildings. The town of Alexandria goes back to the early to mid-1700s. It was bone-chilling cold when we were there in November, and we had to buy ...

... to see the Mediterranean Sea.  Across the bay we can see a fort on the site where the Lighthouse of Alexandria once stood.  Our hotel is among many along a beautiful, crescent-shaped stretch of shoreline.  As we bid farewell to Hamada and ...

So while everyone else was dodging bombs in Israel and Egypt, I was spending a couple days in Alexandria with my roommate Christianna. We took the train there. My first train trips was a lot of fun. It costs about 4 dollars to go two and half hours in ...

... it here as Disneyland), and they actually got in this time (last weekend they tried and were turned away)! I decided to stay in Alexandria for my last weekend here, catch up on sleep, and study for my exam. It was a very relaxing weekend, which consisted ...

... were actually walking in open tombs with water below the stone bridge. It was spooky! Then we all headed back to the magnificent Alexandria Library, the best library I have ever been to! There was a huge line to get tickets to get in and check your bags. ...

... then time to go on our Walking Ghost Tour. By now it was bone-chilling freezing. But we took it on and walked around old Alexandria listening to ghost stories. The tour ended in the Christ Church Cemetary. It was fun (and not scary at all--so it's great ...

... persuaded into buying some treats for ourselves and had coffee and sheesha in Cairo's oldest coffee shop.  Tomorrow we are off to Alexandria for the day and then we are heading to Siani for five nights.  The 5* Hilton resort was having a ...

... (an Indo-Aryan language related to Romany), mostly living north of Cairo, and there are about 60,000 Greek speakers in Alexandria. Approximately 77,000 speakers of Bedawi (a Beja language) live in the Eastern Desert.   Education Like other sectors ...

... of rainfall. On average it's less than eighty millimetres of precipitation annually. He said even the wettest areas like Alexandria; only receive 200 millimetres of rainfall every year. When you move southward the rainfall decreases like here, Cairo, it ...

... hotel fire, we went for a good run. After our run, we quickly changed and saw Dr. Reem speak about her book at the Alexandria Library. Finally, on Wednesday, we got out of class, packed, and then headed to the bus-station to leave for Siwa. Our bus left ...

... and I have been wanting to go to. Im taking her there tomorrow.      Tomorrow is the city of Alexandria's birthday and there is a celebration and fireworks. Were headed there around 6 so that should be fun, I will write about it ...

... with Jay, Claire and Ellie-Mai for New Years Eve, Alaa’s birthday on the 1st and my 40th on the 4th.  I am then signed up to do a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course in Alexandria, northern Egypt in February.  Happy Days ...

... The next day we had to finalise a couple of odd jobs first including a money transfer to Egypt for the deposit on our Alexandria/El Alamein side trip - which also proved the first real experience dealing with the language barrier, but in only a short time ...

... for lunch. There, we met her parents, sisters, and some friends. We met a beautiful little 10 year old girl named Alexandria. We learned that she goes to an exclusive international music school in Colombia and she is studying english. I also learned that ...

... the dome. The upper storey was destroyed by the Persians in 614. It was rebuilt by St. John the Almoner, Patriarch of Alexandria, and later, in the 11th century, by Italian merchants from Amalfi. The present facade and small bell tower of the upper ...