Mahmud, the assistant manager of the cruise, gave us a tour of the ship as we were approaching Aswan.  He had taken a shine to us and made sure we were always looked after. He also lived in Italy for…

I was up at 4.40am to do a balloon ride over Luxor. My first balloon ride ever!  None of the others wanted to come so I did it alone with a bunch of other people. It was awesome – we…

After the craziness of Cairo,we were all bracing ourselves for an even crazier time in Luxor.  Hubs said about a hundred times that Luxor was bad for touts in your face trying to sell things.  And it was hotter than…

Our second day in Cairo was a relax and recharge day.  Hubs’ friends Sam (Syrian but Lebanese when feels like it!) and Ayman (Lebanese) were due to arrive about 8pm and our next ten days would be spent with them,…

Welcome to crazy Cairo! It was 33 degrees at 2am when I landed, British Airways being late AGAIN. That’s 2 flights late from 2 flights taken on BA – a disgrace. Hubs met me at the airport and she was…