I arrived in Essaouira earlier today. It’s a busy town; there are lots of tourists around. It’s that kind of place, the first firmly-on-the-tourist-trail location I’ve visited in Morocco. ______________________________________________________________________...
I’ve been taking it easy since arriving in Morocco late Sunday night (today is Thursday already). I spent 2 nights in Casablanca & tonight will be my third & final night in El Jadida, 2 hours down the Moroccan Atlantic coast from Casablanca. El Jadida El...
I’ve been taking it easy since arriving in Casablanca, Morocco yesterday. Tonight will be my second night in the city, second night in the country. I’m enjoying it thus far & I’m especially enjoying the cooler temperatures – a daytime average of 22...
Today was my first time flying Etihad Airlines, the UAE’s official carrier & one of its two big airlines (the other being Dubai-based Emirates, who I have flown a lot with in the past). I’d heard good things about Etihad Airways & thus had been looking forward...
So there I was sitting atop of Mount Sinai a few evenings ago waiting for the sunset, lost in my thoughts and gazing blankly out over the desolate Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, when all of a sudden the small bush beside me began to spontaneously combust. It was obviously...
Nuweiba on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is more picturesque & laid-back than nearby Dahab mainly because it, Nuweiba, has something Dahab doesn’t – a beaches. It’s also quieter here, especially if you take a stroll on the beaches, one of which...
Although some archaeologists and historians dispute Mount Sinai’s biblical claim to fame, it is revered by Christians, Muslims and Jews, all of whom believe God delivered his Ten Commandments to Moses on its summit....
It always amazes me how time passes when one has positively nothing to do. 4 nights we’ve now spent here in Dahab on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and we still don’t know when we’re leaving. The reason we don’t know is because we have yet to go...
The fact that Suez is about half way between Alexandria, where we just came from, and Dahab in Sinai, where we’re headed, is convenient because we both wanted to come here to do a spot of marine train spotting. Yes, for some reason the thought of sitting by the...
Alexandria, Egypt’s second city, is a true waterfront city. When Alexander the Great wrested Egypt from the Persian empire in 332 BC at the age of 25, he decided against Memphis, the ancient capital, in favour of building a new city linked by sea to his...
