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Sharm and The Hyatt in March 2012. Great stuff.
Blog: Midwife Moira's Travel Blog. With Emirates Cabin Crew on the side. - 11 May 2012
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Siwa: A Wild West Town in Egypt
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 8 May 2012
There is something about the desert that sends folk stir crazy, and Siwa, a Wild West town in Egypt’s Western Desert, is about as crazy as they come. The northernmost...
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Water Sports Around the World
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 18 April 2012
This spring, we asked our readers to help us choose where American Express should send us on our next adventure: Our next trip is on water and we have put together our top choices for water sports around the world.
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What's Behind It? A Look Behind the World's Wonders
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 12 April 2012
The famous monuments of the world are icons that nearly everyone can describe without actually visiting. Millions of photos of these attractions fill up guidebooks, blog posts, news articles, and internet resources; so much so that a few have become so large that they are cliche to even talk about in most sit
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Cycling Africa – Rough Roads to Southern Skies
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 11 April 2012
Like all decisions of great consequence my plan to cycle around the world was made in a pub, beer in one hand, mini-atlas in the other. I was working as an emergency doctor in central London and struggled with the question of whether it was brave or stupid and ungrateful to say goodbye to it all, to my friends, to my family, to my country and to the job that I loved.
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Seven Things That Make Cairo Worth the Hassle
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 10 April 2012
Now, it is easy to whinge about Cairo – and, lord knows, I have! Frankly, as a visibly foreign female visitor, tourist Cairo makes the souks of Marrakech feel like...
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Great Places to Celebrate Earth Hour
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 31 March 2012
Tonight at 8:30 pm nations around the world will be taking part in Earth Hour to take a stand against climate change. Started by the WWF in Australia, it has grown immensely since 2007 to become a global initiative.
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The Friday Photo: The Oldest Mosque In Cairo
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 30 March 2012
The tranquillity of Ahmed Ibn Tulun mosque came as a welcome relief from a city about which, if I’m honest, both of us have profoundly mixed feelings. There’s a sense...
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Diving Dahab: The Blue Hole and The Canyon
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 25 March 2012
Besides the kittens, the rooftop bars, the seafood and the fireside lounging, Dahab is about two things: the Red Sea and the Sinai desert. And in the Red Sea, the...
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11 months of travel, 4 minutes of video
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 23 March 2012
We’ve been back home for a while now, and are back into an everyday routine. Having both found employment, there are no immediate plans for another multi-month trip, but we do find ourselves constantly looking back on the last year with no regrets and memories which will surely last our lifetime. Its been an amazing [...]
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In the Footsteps of Moses
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 19 March 2012
There’s something about Dahab which produces a phenomenon of sloth I like to think of as “mission creep”, but which might better be described as “mission shrink”. For, yes, we...
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What Does A Kid Do For Four Days In The Desert?
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 14 March 2012
What DO you do for four days in the Sinai desert, if you’re an eleven-year-old kid? You roll down dunes, slide down dunes, swim down dunes, ride stones down dunes,...
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The Friday Photo: On the Roof in Dahab, Egypt
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 2 March 2012
It’s been ten years since we last visited Dahab. And, though it was firmly on the banana pancake trail back then, the miasma of hippie clothes shops and dance bars...
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5 Amazing Things to See in Egypt
Blog: Vagobond.com - 14 February 2012
So, first lesson, don't go to Tahir Square - but here are five other things you absolutely must do. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Day Tripping to Saqqara, Memphis, and Dahshur
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 4 February 2012
For most visitors, the highlight of a trip to Cairo is almost always the majestic pyramids on the Giza plateau and the Sphinx. As this spot is always on the top of must see lists, it is not uncommon for it to be the very first place all travelers in Egypt visit. As I was
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Boats and Fort Qataby in Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 30 January 2012
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel quotes.
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High Tea at the Old Cataract in Aswan
Blog: Sophie's World - 29 January 2012
From the Nile, the Old Cataract Hotel looks grand, perched on the granite bluff above. If you’ve seen Death on the Nile, it will also look familiar. My oldest daughter enjoys sipping tea in old world hotels, preferably while wearing a big hat, looking mysterious. Uniformed guards at the gate inform us we have to [...]High Tea at the Old Cataract in Aswan is a post from Sophie's World
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Escape of the Week: The pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Blog: The Adventures of D - 18 January 2012
Escape of the Week: The pyramids of Giza, EgyptEditor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Endri of Trip and Travel Blog. If you have an Escape of the Week you would like to contribute, please send [...]d travels 'round
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Roman Theater in Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 18 January 2012
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel quotes.
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Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 17 January 2012
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK, caught up with scores of...
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Adventures in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 January 2012
ne of the absolute coolest things to do in Egypt is visit an oasis, and one of the most easily accessible is the Siwa Oasis. To get there you either have to drive yourself, or take an eight hour bus ride from Alexandria. The buses departs at night and when you wake up, you are [...]--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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Egypt – A photographic journey
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 8 January 2012
Are you ready to see a different side of Egypt? Being our second time visiting this Middle Eastern jewel gave us the chance to look at it with a different set of eyes. Yes, the pyramids are mesmerizing, but having seen them before, we could look beyond their majesty and take in the atmosphere around us.
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Are You Up For the Big Challenge in 2012?
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 7 January 2012
In 2008 we took a big challenge and road our bicycles from Cairo to Cape Town. It cost us a lot of money and we didn’t know how things would turn out after our 4 months in Africa. All we knew was that we needed to change our lives, so we took a chance and [...]
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Air Pollution in Cairo – Yep it’s Still There
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 6 January 2012
People smoke a lot in Cairo. it. It is said that living in Cairo is the equivalent of smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day. Between the actual cigarette smoking and the air pollution, our lungs took a beating.
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Places to see in 2012 - Extended Edition
Blog: Hello, Pineapple? - 1 January 2012
In the January 2012 issue of Time Out Singapore I shared the best places to visit in 2012: Xinjiezhen, China; Guimarães, Portugal; London, England; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada and The Mayan Riviera, Belize.
