Tutmania and More – Agatha Christie’s Egypt: I am old enough to remember the Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in London in 1972. I didn’t get a chance to go – though I remember every school in the UK had special lessons, every paper ran special features and there was even an episode of […]
Left for Tombs, Right for Temples – Luxury Nile River Cruise:
Nile River Cruise on the Oberoi Philae – from Luxor to Aswan: Half asleep on my sun-lounger, cradled by the river Nile lapping gently across the bows of our River Cruiser, I woke with a start as Tarek, our guide called out. ‘Over there – those are the quarries’ It didn’t sound too interesting, reluctantly […]