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A spectacularly family-unfriendly post, I’m afraid, dear readers: here’s one on a Chinese supermarket and another on a very bad road in Indonesia. Younger readers,...
A spectacularly family-unfriendly post, I’m afraid, dear readers: here’s one on a Chinese supermarket and another on a very bad road in Indonesia. Younger readers,...
Even by my standards, this post is not very family-friendly. You might want to try this one instead. Younger readers: this is going to be...
Given the chap with the moustache has offered intensive, and, further, only discreetly amused assistance in my parking fiasco, I feel we should eat in...
This is Anoud, 2, with her great-grandfather, Mohammed, 93, looking at a picture of him in his British Army uniform from World War II. They...
Here in Aqaba, a coastal town in Jordan which is gunning for second city status but has all the verve and vigour of Bournemouth on...
There is something about the desert that sends folk stir crazy, and Siwa, a Wild West town in Egypt’s Western Desert, is about as crazy...
Still damp from the hot springs we have been swimming in, we are barrelling through the back streets of Siwa, an oasis town in Egypt’s...
On market day the little Nileside town of Daraw comes alive in a chaos of stalls and traffic. Nubian men in pristine robes squeeze their...
The little town of Daraw is famous for its weekend camel market. It was just an ordinary market day when we visited while sailing a...
Egypt / Places / Travel Advice
by Theodora · Published April 10, 2012 · Last modified September 14, 2012
Now, it is easy to whinge about Cairo – and, lord knows, I have! Frankly, as a visibly foreign female visitor, tourist Cairo makes the...