Before telling you about our day, I want to give you a few final thoughts about our time in Cairo. Last night, at bedtime, Diane and I...

The Egyptian weekend is Thursday and Friday. Saturdays and Sundays are regular workdays. Hence, today many stores were closed, and...

Our early Egyptair flight landed us back in Cairo by 9 AM, so we basically have had the entire day here. This post will probably have...

What a pleasure to kick back today, wake up when we saw fit, and thoroughly enjoy the slow pace and the surroundings. That pretty much...

Abu Simbel is the last town in Egypt before reaching the border with Sudan, 20 minutes away. Today we hired yet another driver and guide...

The guest house owner, Kafana, helped us organize today’s activities. He personally walked us to the east end of the island to show us...

Aswan is a much bigger city than I had anticipated, however our guest house is located on Elephantine Island, a Nubian enclave where...

We left Luxor two days ago and have been cruising down the Nile toward Aswan. This has given us opportunity to unwind a bit, and meet new...

Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, Pompeii, Chichen Itza, the Pyramids at Giza. These are historical monuments that have impressed me like no...

Surprisingly, we slept until almost 10 o’clock today. We needed it, that’s all there is to it. However, it meant that we had to change...

A sea of people shopping for inexpensive items of all types. Frankly, I am more than a bit disappointed in the quality of photos today....

After an interminable flight, at long last we landed in Cairo. With flight and luggage delays, we finally made it to our room at 1AM,...

Ideally, this is a vacation to take in summer but, as I said earlier, there are advantages for choosing low season. This said, it was...

We had a very pleasant last day in Denmark. Having figured out a way to get back to Copenhagen using only one ferry, gave us a chance to...

Seriously. Off season is one thing, but this island seems to be void of anyone not from here, yet it is one of the country’s premiere...

There are probably an even number of advantages whether to travel in high or low season. In low season (now) you avoid the crowds and pay...

Once again, I am reporting on two days of activity, however, I will not be able to post this until (hopefully) tomorrow. The tiny house...

What a difference a day makes! Gone are the spectacular mountains, lava flows, geysers, waterfalls, and black-sand beaches of Iceland....

On this day we covered the entire southern coast of Iceland. The weather continued to remain on the nasty side, with intermittent rain,...

So, here’s the arctic fox I mentioned in the last post. Cute little thing, uh? Turns out that, though still wild, she has adopted the...