Category: Spring 2025
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Botherations
As in harassment,bothering, annoyance,bugging, aggravation, bedevilment, and sometimes funny. Warning: Image might be triggering, for sure to Nette. Carriage Drivers It’s seems rather negative to write a whole blogpost on the things in Egypt that would keep me from going back, but as they were a very real part of the trip, an issue of…
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Feast Or Famine
Navigating the intricacies of eating during Ramadan in Egypt Traditional Food Egypt knows good food. And it’s cheap. When we ate better, things like large shawarma wraps or massive bowls of Koshary, with a side of coke, it was right at $2USD a person. For the meals when food was scarce and our only options…
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Tours and Guides
A brief outline of what we saw and the people who took us. Pyramids Egypt is liberally sprinkled with pyramids, and since I already talked about the Giza ones, we’ll move on to Saqqarah and Dashur, places an hour or so from Cairo that are actually much more interesting than Giza. While the pyramids themselves…
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Transportation
Getting from point A to point B and coming out alive. Train The comforting clunking of the rails and the gentle swaying of the train made sleep easy. At least for me. We were in the last car, so the whistle was a distant noise whenever we crossed a road. Occasionally other trains would pass…
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Street Things
Stuff we encountered while out and about in Egypt that was memorable If I had to describe Egyptian cities with one word I would say “hectic”. Cairo in particular is a wild swirl of street vendors, classy shops, horses, smog, shisha bars, beggars, mini busses, ancient taxies, pastries, all overlaid with the smell of sewer…
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Egypt or Bust
Nine groggy, travel worn souls met at 8pm in the Cairo airport Saturday evening. Heath, Andrew and I maybe weren’t so travel weary but more having Shabbat hangover. In a good way. Our earnest meet and greet rep faithfully waved his Richard Tilton sign till we had all gathered and then we were herded out…
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Shabbat Shalom!
Imagine a house in the middle of Israel, the tantalizing smell of exotic spices, a massive dog and the twinkling of candles. Around the table are three different nationalities of people and three different conversations going full swing. The table is heavy with food, and most of the men have trouble with their kippahs falling…
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The “Situation”
We were very curious how exhausted and beaten down Israel would be by now, with the whole war situation, but were pleasantly surprised! After spending a year reading the media, it starts to mess with the head a little. The airport was bustling and we had to wait a long time in Passport Control. No…
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The Foodies Leave Cyprus
Today was shipwreck and church day. And of course food. I’m not sure it’s a good idea for Andrew and us to travel together, we definitely have similar unquenchable appetites. At this rate I’ll soon need a new wardrobe. The shipwrecked vessel Edro III was first on our sight seeing list. It’s sitting just off…
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Oranges and Gorges.
The sun rose at 6:21am, but we had it beat. So much to see in such a short time, there’s no point in lolling around in bed. A local bakery overfilled our bellies, and off we went. Our plan was to drive along the South shore of the Island, stopping where interest was piqued and…
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Back To The Olive Trees
Swish, SWISH go the windshield wipers on our little Hyundi car, indicating that the driver intends to turn. Raucous, overtired laughter comes from the passengers. It feels like midnight, but in all reality it’s shortly after 7pm, local Cyprus time. Cypronians drive on the left, so hence the small fracas every-time Heath tries to signal.…
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