Copping it not so sweet
Yesterday there was a loud bang outside my window. I went outside to check to find police blocking off street. Mild panic, as I live beside one of the city’s […]
NOTEBOOK
Canter past Patagonian icefields. Sail the tranquil waters of Lake Como in Italy. Sip coffee in a Palestinian village. Listen to the ancient voices of Australia’s Arnhem Land. Climb the mountain paths of northern Albania. Let’s go!
Bedouins and Beyonce
About a month ago, Adam, spotter of weird internet stuff par excellence, sent me a link to a ‘beautiful camel’ competition in Dubai with a question: do they have anything […]
Love, acid and lost shoes: notes from Cairo’s dailies…oes:
A snippet from a regular column in The Egyptian Gazette by journalist Hugh Nicol, titled “Red-Handed”, which salubriously details local crimes, very often featuring rather horrific crimes of passion. See […]
At the feet of gods: Cruising Lake Nasser to Abu Simbel
Hi all, Egypt’s going great guns in the Australian press at the moment. This piece appeared this week in Sydney’s Sun Herald newspaper. Much is drawn from blogs, so don’t […]
The prince and I
It’s not quite The King and I – but here’s me and the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, at Alamein’s Commonwealth War Cemetery on Saturday, which was the day the […]
The grand old Duke of York/had 7,000 men…
Today, I trotted around shamelessly trying to get in a photo op with the Duke of York, Prince Andrew. Well, what else would you do on a Saturday afternoon. I […]
Smokin’ in Cairo
Just to prove I’m not moaning on Facebook about nothing, here’s the lead story for this week’s English version of Al-Ahram newspaper. ‘For once, as it turns out, the burning […]
All quiet on the North African front…
All quiet…until tomorrow, when I visit the former North African front of World War II, the village of El Alamein on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast,130km west of Alexandria. Here was fought […]
Horsing about in the desert – from Giza to Sakkara
Pink, Princess and Apple (To’faa): it sounds like picnic of Barbie dolls rather than three horses heading out for the 35km round trek between Giza and Sakkara pyramids – from […]
Cruising the Nile on the cheap
Hi all, here’s a story I had published in Australia’s Sun Herald newspaper recently about cruising the Nile in Cairo. Enjoy! October 4, 2009 Exploring the Nile in downtown Cairo […]