Overlooked

People, Places, Things and Ideas by C. Scott Willy

30 November 2006

Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks

Filed under: Books, History — cswilly @ 12:17

Fiasco

:-)

Sadly too true. And now what.

12 November 2006

29-Oct (Sun) Valley of the Kings, Luxor, and much more

Filed under: Egypt, Outdoor, Places, Vacation — cswilly @ 16:39

Dawn over LuxorUp at 4:45AM for a shower and breakfast. Steven gave me his key to be sure he did not oversleep. Not a problem as the wake-up call got him up first time–much to his surprize.

Some of us are not quite awake. We took a small boat to cross the Nile to meet our bus. The tour group only had 18 people, so it made things very easy. Some of us were not yet awake.
Julia and Steven a bit more awake at the Valley of the Kings

We went to the Valley of the Kings first thing. Julia and Steve looked a lot more awake by the time we got there.

The day’s sights all kind of ran into each other.

The Valley Of The Kings Entry Ticket Abydos Entry Ticket Habu Temple Entry Ticket Luxor Temple Entry Ticket Karnak Temple

Plus the Memnon Colossus all in the same day. We were happy to stop for lunch at theHotel Mercure after the Luxor Temple.

Some templle looking back towards the valley of the kings A colossus in some temple I was there too.

Lady Diane at EnsaThe boat moved on to Ensa. We took a 30km bus ride in a military convoy from Luxor to Esna to meet up with it.

Julia had a well deserved cup of mint tea while went went through the locks at Ensa and then we had an evening cruise to Edfou.

Well deserved cup of mint tea The locks at Ensa

More photos from this day are here.

28-Oct (Sat) Nice-Luxor

Filed under: Egypt, Outdoor, Places, Vacation — cswilly @ 13:27

Corsair Boarding Pass for Orly Quest to Luxor Up at 5am to catch the 7:05 shuttle for Orly. Arrived on time and got checked in a bit less than two hours before the flight to Luxor was to leave. All was good, until they announced the flight would be one hour late. After this departure time passed, they offered to buy a drink (well after lunchtime). The flight left five hours late.

The flight was OK. Only a snack, so we were hungry when we arrived. The tour group handled the visa formalities and transport well. We arrived at the boat nice and tired around 10:30pm. Steven was impressed that it was so big (a “moving apartment building”). Dinner was at 11pm. We were told the plan was to wake-up at 4:45am to go see the sights!

ooff. Not on vacation yet.

All the photos I uploaded from the trip here.

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