“Its just gone noon, half past monsoon, on the banks of the river Nile. Here comes the boat only half afloat, oarsman grins a toothless smile…”Well, not quite. The cruise boat is a floating hotel, mildly reminiscent of something from the thirties. I think they all know that Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile […]

At last, Internet access and a chance to catch up. I cannot believe that it is only just a week and a half since I arrived here. It seems that we have done so much. Where to start?Day two: met the rest of the tour group at the Oasis Hotel in Giza, near the Pyramids […]

My first visit to Egypt was in 2012 with a package tour. I had been working on a book about a possible link between Moses and the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and realised I needed to visit Egypt. I had planned to join a big tour but it proved to be too expensive. I found a […]