We had booked a driver to take us to the Pyramids the previous day and we met Salah on the steps of our hotel early Tuesday morning. As we were driving along the eastern bank of the Nile he began fishing around behind the sun visor. This was slightly disconcerting but by now I had …
Egypt Part II
After having taken the long way to the Egyptian Museum, we made our way along the back of the Nile Hilton past the stares of heavily armed, bored looking soldiers. Kathryn soon came to realise that she was being actively stared at wherever she went. A blonde, white woman was quite a novelty it seemed. …
Egypt Part I
The Egypt travelogue is here. Sort of. I think it is going to be a fairly long one, so I have decided to try something different. Rather than taking weeks to write a huge entry that you will have to set aside a whole evening to read, I am going to serialise it in little …
New website layout
I finally got around to getting the Egypt photos developed and up in the gallery. There are still some more photos to come from another roll which I haven’t finished yet. That’s one of the reasons I like my digital camera; you don’t have to pay/wait for processing and you don’t have to worry about …
The hottest day on record
Today was officially the hottest day on record. It reached 31.8C (100.2F) in Kent. We have been praying for a cool change for a week now but it just seems to keep getting hotter. It turns out our little flat which is so hard to keep warm in the winter is like a little oven …
A new job
A few exciting things have happened round here lately that have kept me busy and unable to update the site for a while. Firstly, Mark and Marnie have arrived in London (although as I write this they are preparing to fly to Switzerland to see the Tour de France), and they have joined the select …
Surprise visit
Well, Matt should be landing in Cairo right about now. I hope he packed some sunscreen. I checked the weather: 37C. Yuck. He was originally going to fly to Cairo from Algiers, but decided to swing by London when an earthquake changed his itinerary. Unbeknownst to me, he had been in contact with Kathryn and …
We're back!
After the server crashed it seemed as good a time as any to redesign the site. So after many long hours at the keyboard, this is the result; the all-singing, all-dancing, object-oriented, dynamically created website. I know you don’t care about all that. You just want to know why it took so long to get …
London Peace March
On Saturday London played host to the biggest public demonstration Britain has ever seen. About one million people converged on Hyde Park to protest against the probable war with Iraq. Being a tool of corporate greed I had to work, but Kathryn was there and she took some photographs. You can find them in the …
Snow chaos
So shouted the headline from the Evening Standard seller’s stand I could see through the window of HMV. Snow Chaos. Snow Chaos? This is indicative of the hyperbole employed by the tabloid press. And also the British pre-occupation with the weather. And also the inability of London to deal with any hint of snow. Or …