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My Adventures Teaching English Abroad and How You Can Teach English Abroad
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 26 May 2012
I first got interested in teaching English overseas when I got sick of my 9-5 job in Australia, and wanted something more from life. I didn’t want to waste away…
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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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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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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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A Street Car named….Alexandria
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 23 December 2011
Our Guide Maha says that the pyramids and the tombs aren't the only ancient monuments in Egypt, The Trolleys of Alexandria are one of the country's historical as well. Dating back to 1860, the trolley system of Alexandria is the only working streetcar in Egypt and the oldest working line in all of Africa.
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Inside the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 19 December 2011
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Discover great travel photos.
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19 – Travelling in Egypt – Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh and Siwa – Podcast
Blog: Heather on her travels - 7 December 2011
In Travel Podcast Episode 19 I visit Egypt where I spent a week travelling with a friend who lives in Alexandria. I took a walking tour of the city where many of the houses are crumbling away and where we bumped into a wedding procession hooting horns and letting off fireworks. We drove west to [...]
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6 misconceptions I had about Alexandria – in Egypt
Blog: Heather on her travels - 2 August 2011
I’d never been to Egypt until my visit in May to see a friend, my only other experience of the Arab world being Lebanon a couple of years before. Inevitably I had a few preconceptions about Egypt, but things were not quite as I expected… Faded grandeur or crumbling away? If Alexandria would like to style [...]
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Useful Public Art in the Mediterranean: Murals, Spray Can Art, Mosaics
Blog: Honey Service Year - 4 June 2010
Murals, spray can art (and illegal graffiti), signage, and public art all play such important roles in defining cities, towns, and urban cultures. Public art viewed from the point of view of the traveler can become windows into the cultural world around us. Art in all its forms enlivens places we visit. For protest, aesthetic, and celebration, they are windows into a new world. Intentional art
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Who stands up in the basement cell?
Blog: Honey Service Year - 3 June 2010
Three women kneel on dusty ground, speaking in hushed tones through a small basement grate. Blue box trucks stack behind them with three little white hats peering off of bench seats out back; smoking, jostling.Two of the women are older. Dressed in black covering, the eldest has one hand clenched, supporting her heavy weight as she kneels and bends; her other had pressed against the chain grate.
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A Day at the Beach
Blog: Honey Service Year - 1 June 2010
On our last day in Alexandria, we went to the beach. I was feeling rather risqué in my mid-calf length skirt and high-necked t-shirt, with a shawl draped loosely around my hair and shoulders. This is a pretty standard outfit of mine, and happens to be the second favorite out of my three. Though a bit wild for wandering the streets of Cairo, this naughty little number caused even more of a scene
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The Souk is a Kindred Spirit
Blog: Honey Service Year - 26 May 2010
written by Nathan If China is the world’s largest importer of chicken feet, then Egypt must be the largest importer of beef liver. On the street, three things are ingested daily on every corner; tea (at all hours with sheesha), fuul at lunch (the original refried beans), and evenings are for liver. Use the word ‘sandwich’ at nearly any dining establishment serving food past 5PM and likely this
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The One Pound Falafel Sandwich
Blog: Honey Service Year - 25 May 2010
El Alamein would be the perfect vacation spot for many persons seeking the sapphire clear waters of Egypt’s Mediterranean. It had been recommended to us by two different English speaking people we encountered, both of whom we had clearly articulated a desire to spend time in Egyptian communities away from the usual tourist path. We got our usual information on buses and made our way there
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Imagining Backpacking Without Plastic
Blog: Honey Service Year - 24 May 2010
Today I tried to imagine a backpacker without plastic…it’s hard to do! So much of our journey depends on plastic: purified water, laminated passports, debit cards, 3oz conditioner and sunscreen and insect repellant bottles. I would be nearly blind without my big plastic sunglasses in the bright Mediterranean sun. Our camera records visual memories, and our external hard drive stores writings and
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Eqyptian Charms
Blog: Honey Service Year - 23 May 2010
written by Nathan Cairo, Egypt land of ancient civilizations. We are feeling quite at home here. It is not just the cosmopolitan character of Cairo, the port city air of Alexandria, but the feeling of an Arabic Melting pot which has been so welcome to us. It is a megalopolis stretching from Cairo to the sea - diverse and developed, proud and confident. Life is a tangle of friendliness. The
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A Glimpse of Alex
Blog: Honey Service Year - 22 May 2010
Here in Alexandria, the tangy Mediterranean air brings to life the smells of the city, and the salty air seems to amplify smells as does salt to food. The fragrance of dripping bunches of parsley and cilantro and dill and the creamy fluff of fresh feta cheese winds amidst the smoky tendrils of sheesha coming from the men seated at outdoor cafés. Narrow streets carry the scents of buttery
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You look Egyptian
Blog: Honey Service Year - 21 May 2010
We could not have known, before coming here, that there are so many different looks of people in Egypt. Suddenly, we see the faces of so many people we have known. Blue, brown, and green eyes, blonds and brunettes, very pale and jet black complexions, broad, flat, and hooked noses. This is not how media or education portrays middle easterners.Differences of appearance are not only visible in skin
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Top 5 Safety Tips Americans and other Westerners need to know NOW before traveling to a third world country.
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 13 May 2010
When traveling / backpacking, it is important to note that not all third world countries have the same dangers to watch out for, but here are some that apply to…
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Bussing it from Cairo to Siwa
Blog: Knocking About Egypt - 21 February 2010
The next northbound train with available seats didn't leave until 8:00 p.m. This meant that I would miss the last bus to Siwa and would have to spend the night in Alexandria. I hadn't arranged a place to stay, so I'd wind up knocking on pension doors that had already been bolted shut for the night. I also knew that I'd feel guilty enough about waking someone that I'd probably take the first place with a bed, no matter how nasty.
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Daily Travel Photo – Alexandria, Egypt
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 18 February 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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Alexandrian Archaelogical Tour
Blog: Knocking About Egypt - 9 February 2010
The next morning, I slipped out before anyone else had woken up. I had planned a full day of museums and sightseeing, and I wasn't sure the Austrians would be up for that. I also knew that if I ran into them at breakfast, I wouldn't feel comfortable telling them that I wanted to spend the day alone, so I had to slink out in the early hours like a bad daddy.Kom el-Dikka
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Evening in Alexandria
Blog: Knocking About Egypt - 8 February 2010
The Austrians and the pension owner, whom we will call "Hossein," delayed their trip to the duty-free shop to take me to my room. I had already agreed to take it sight unseen, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that it appeared to be clean enough. On the second night, I found a human toenail (the whole thing, not just a clipping) embedded in the blanket, so my first impression may not have been correct. I did at least recognize right away that the toilet down the hall was filthy beyond any further mentioning, but that's about par for an Egyptian pension.
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From Cairo to Alexandria
Blog: Knocking About Egypt - 7 February 2010
Ramses train station is chaotic, and the ticketing system seems unnecessarily complicated. There are separate ticket lines regimented by type of train, final destination, passenger nationality, and ticket class desired. The signs telling you which line is correct are exclusively in Arabic, including the numbers. It took all of my months of language training to find the correct line. It took that same training to understand that I had not actually found the correct line. Finally, it took away all of my pride to have to be led to the correct line by a patient station attendant.
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