tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63400929943715696402024-03-12T17:16:36.982-07:00My life living near the Nile in Luxor EgyptThis blog is about what I see on my walks around Luxor and Egypt.Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-32153979635617528942011-11-13T11:57:00.000-08:002012-01-02T11:58:48.902-08:00Back to Wales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have moved back to Wales and started blogs to coincide to where I am you will now find me under the headings of <a href="http://wildaboutwales.wordpress.com/">wildaboutwales.wordpress.com </a>and <a href="http://wildaboutwales.blogspot.com/">wildaboutwales.blogspot.com</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> here I was sitting in the dew in the wetlands at 5.30 in the morning.</div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMknFcnZ1A/TJzOIcNnwmI/AAAAAAAAYvo/_cN0la_ET9k/s1600/P9240040.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMknFcnZ1A/TJzOIcNnwmI/AAAAAAAAYvo/_cN0la_ET9k/s320/P9240040.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
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Give us this day our daily bread. so we can put it out on the bench in the street.Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-74664513919666411582010-09-21T07:07:00.001-07:002010-09-22T05:41:34.008-07:00railway crossing.<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2010/09/railway-crossing.html"><br />
</a> </h3><div class="post-header"></div>Market day the busiest day of the week. and they close the railway level crossing<br />
the busiest time is between 9 and 11, two hours,<br />
its 10 minutes to nine and the narrow part was left open for bicycles and pedestrians,<br />
just as I was about to cross when they closed the whole entrance,<br />
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barrier is built, thats to keep everybody out<br />
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the footbridge over the lines is 50yards away, and my usual way to the market area/<br />
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these signals always seem to be in the same position,,,<br />
the road bridge is 200 yards away but to far for the cyclists,<br />
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work is under way on the crossing, and local people making a lot of noise arguing with the police wondering why they cannot cross to the market area with their goods to sell,<br />
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ok chuk not far to go<br />
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ducks,geese hens, rabbits and turkeys<br />
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dried bread for poultry food for sale<br />
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water melons 5 le per kilo one of them is about 10 killo.<br />
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little bunny wabits for sale<br />
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door to door milk delivery<br />
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woman heading off with the sheep to market.<br />
wed the crossing is still clossed just like england,s fine rail network. there are more chiefs than indians,<br />
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and silly buggers that take no notice of danger warnings <br />
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view from the new road bridge towards the crossing <br />
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</a> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content"> As a retired builder,My interest vary and when I see a victorian construction like this water tank<br />
I wonder how it came to be here in Egypt. I came across this rather interesting piece of architectural history on a walk I did behind the Luxor train station the railway was quite late coming to the nile delta of upper Egypt this dates back to late victoria so could be as late as 1901. there is a railway museum in Cairo, and a must visit for me within the next month of my travels around Egypt,<br />
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<a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/trainmuseum.htm"> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="First Train in Egypt" src="http://www.touregypt.net/images/touregypt/trainm7s.jpg" style="height: 144px; width: 238px;" /></div></a><a href="http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/trainmuseum.htm">rail museum cairo</a> link<br />
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This piece of engineering I know a little bit more about,<br />
The old Victorian water tank that was used to fill the trains up with water, (For steam) by the late 1960s was to far from the railway line;- trains had to unhook and make a detour to the tank to be filled up adding a further 1 hour to the journey, so it was decided to build a new one on the main line where the steam train could stop and fill up from the new water tank. the tank was completed 6 months before the regions rail network bought new diesel powered trains, the steam trains and its water tanks became obsolete. The water tanks are of no use for domestic water storage as most buildings in luxor are more than two storeys high. in the lower photo there is a new water tower in the distance, and of course today's modern water plants are using electric pumps to pump water around its pipe system. so these night storage tanks are also obsolete. in the main towns that have updated the water supply system.<br />
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Even the old telephone poles can still be seen along the railway lines<br />
only the top pots are used to hold the wires with the new addition on the topmost for the electricity power lines. a quite recent thing in this part of Egypt. now they have the hydro electricity <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Dam">Dam in Aswan, for those interested in the high dam here is a link,,,,here.</a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMknFcnZ1A/TJZTJV6ua1I/AAAAAAAAYT8/dS1SKxmgzjg/s1600/IMG_8611.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518689813356505938" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMknFcnZ1A/TJZTJV6ua1I/AAAAAAAAYT8/dS1SKxmgzjg/s320/IMG_8611.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; height: 320px; width: 305px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMknFcnZ1A/TJZTLGdxVRI/AAAAAAAAYUc/JF2iMLZN6jo/s1600/P9190017.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518689843568268562" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMknFcnZ1A/TJZTLGdxVRI/AAAAAAAAYUc/JF2iMLZN6jo/s320/P9190017.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; height: 210px; width: 320px;" /></a> </div><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn">Life in Egypt</span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-left-of-steam-era.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2010-09-19T11:11:00-07:00">11:11 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="reaction-buttons"> </span> <span class="star-ratings"> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-left-of-steam-era.html#comments">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1421660169"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8237495774994076124&postID=6838238785872673687" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18" /> </a> </span> </span>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-27995856869358140122010-09-18T16:11:00.000-07:002010-09-19T08:39:29.394-07:0019TH SEPTEMBER 2010<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2010/09/realy-did-not-feel-like-walk-today-but.html">Realy did not feel like a walk today. but glad I went,</a> </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content">YESTERDAY I WALKED ALMOST 10 KILOMETERS. AND STARTED TO SUFFER WITH MY BACK AS SOON AS I GOT HOME ,I TOOK A PIRITON AND MY 400ML IBUPROFEN TABLETS. AND SLEPT FROM 21.00 TILL 11.00. AND STILL HAD A BACK PAIN TOOK ANOTHER PILL.<br />
BY THE TIME THE BACK PILLS STARTED TO CUT IN IT WAS ALMOST MIDDAY,<br />
ANY WAY HERE I AM ON THE EDGE OF THE WETLANDS 2" under this land its a water table<br />
of the Nile river in places I have to take my sandals off to walk in what seems to be grass.<br />
today there is no smell of rotting whatever as the Nile has only receded over the past week.<br />
the first 100 yards has already been ploughed and seeded with Maze. in a few weeks it will be cropped and corn planted ready for next year,<br />
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the red mark is where my flat is on the East bank of Luxor city Egypt.<br />
today's blog is quite long with photos of what I saw as I walked in this area. first I went to the sand bank near the Nile river.<br />
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Dahabias moored along the Nile<br />
PLEASE CLICK ON TO ENLARGE PHOTOS.<br />
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Two hoopoes taking shade from the sun its about 42c<br />
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these tourists having a real problem with the camel boys,<br />
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Water Buffalo's having a wallow with its cleaner , the cattle egret<br />
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ONE OF THE SMALL STREAMS I HAD TO CROSS, ABOUT 3" OF WATER<br />
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WATER BUFFALO WITH CALF.<br />
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LITTLE WHITE EGRET<br />
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GLOSSY IBIS COULD NOT GET WITHIN 100YARDS BEFORE THEY FLEW OFF.<br />
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STEPPE EAGLE COMING IN TO LAND ITS ABOUT 100YARDS AWAY<br />
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JUVENILE SQUACCO HERON<br />
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BLACK-WINGED STINTS<br />
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<b style="color: #000099;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #3333ff;">2 Little stint'S, Calidris minuta,</span></span></i></b> 3 BLACK-WINGED STINTS<br />
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TODAY'S BEAUTY IS A GRASSHOPPER, AFTER MUCH CHASING IN THE GRASS IT FINALLY SUCCUMBED TO A PHOTO SESSION WHEN IT FLEW ON TO THE SAND BANK.<br />
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GREY HERON<br />
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SKINK IN THE SHADE OF THE FEVER TREE<br />
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BEE IN THE FEVER TREE<br />
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EVEN THE HOUSE SPARROWS FORAGE IN THE FEVER TREE<br />
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BLACK -WINGED STINTS<br />
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BEST POSITION FOR THE FEMALE NILE-VALLEY SUNBIRD IN THE FEVER TREE.<br />
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RED DARTER DRAGONFLY<br />
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WASP ON A MALLOW LEAF<br />
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SQUACCO AND LITTLE WHITE EGRET<br />
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LITTLE GREEN BEE-EATERS TAKING SHADE.<br />
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RUDDY DARTER<br />
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GOLDEN DARTER<br />
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SAND BEE<br />
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SULPHER BUTTERFLY ON THE FEVERTREE<br />
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ONE OF THE TRYING TO OPEN A SHELL FISH<br />
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This photo was taken by my mother in law while on active duty in Alexandria during <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">WW11</span>.<br />
she was a wireless <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">operator</span> with the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">wrac</span>, <br />
and 68 years on not much has changed in the fruit and veg business<br />
this photo was taken at 16.30 on 13th September 2010 in the so called modern city of Luxor Egypt.<br />
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the same photo in greyscale <br />
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Mind the step almost tripped over this cows head just lying in the street. <br />
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</a>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-23611144193239767742010-09-12T00:04:00.000-07:002010-09-12T00:04:14.802-07:00Two days in Cairo 2009The sky on the evening before I went to Cairo.<br />
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The new aircraft.<br />
The one I returned on, the egyptair express was smaller in every way width and in length, I am only 5ft 7" and had a problem with leg room and that was in the business class.<br />
why did I travel business? by the time I had done the tour of egyptair offices in cairo trying to get a return flight to luxor I was only too willing to pay that extra it for a bit of comfort.<br />
the first office I went into for a price I was told no flight until 2 days time so asked how much for business class 900 le but no flight until 1.00 , the next one I was quoted 850 business but no seats in economy. at 19.15 same day. then I decided to go to Nasr city main egypt air office. and was quoted 80le taxi fare, so I got a shuttle bus 1le. problem was getting a driver that knew where I wanted to go when asked. its like you are from another planet Nasr city is nasr city said in any language. because its a new city, and the arabs do not have the knowledge to make arabic names up from English, like computer is computer television is television the only new word I can find is mecaniki. and no one needs to have a 150 IQ to know what that means, as I was waiting for a bus at another change I went into another egyptair sales office they said no flights today. what they meant was no available seats, then I knew someone was telling porkies in order to sell more expensive business class seats. at the main office they said there was no available seats for 2 days. by this time I was only 5 kilometer from the airport. in the end I decided to chance it and go to the airport see if I can get on a plane. I was told no flight until 19.15 and only business class. 690le. now by this time I had no intention of going all the way back to cairo train station when even there there may be a chance of more lies like I had the last time I traveled by rail to Cairo. <a href="http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_917.html">http://nilelife.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_917.html</a><br />
so I bought a ticket, more disappointment to come,<br />
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The old Luxor Terminal<br />
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Luxor from the air...........my old flat is marked.<br />
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<a href="http://myegypttours.blogspot.com/2009/08/sakkara-pyramids.html">http://myegypttours.blogspot.com/2009/08/sakkara-pyramids.html</a><br />
150 photos on the days shoot of sakkara <br />
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<a href="http://myegypttours.blogspot.com/2009/08/giza-pyramids.html">http://myegypttours.blogspot.com/2009/08/giza-pyramids.html</a><br />
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Nasr city & Stadium<br />
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Cairo Airport terminal 3<br />
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The most expensive coffee shop in all of Egypt 2 teas and waterpipe<br />
40.75 piestas. there is one on each corner of the Air Mall and I was<br />
the only customer. in all 4 cafe, there was no prices up! but last time I was there 7 weeks ago it was 15 le with fill up as you wanted. and that was expensive,<br />
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the new terminal 1. I think? its got arrivals 3 on the front.<br />
departure 3 is 2 kilometer away from here.<br />
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The mobile shoe shop working its way through Cairo's main bus depot while I was waiting for my connection to Nasr City<br />
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Thought for one minute I was back in Luxor. notice the<br />
deformed hands again not not so much here as in Luxor.<br />
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Then there was his mate showing me his cleft hand and shouting abuse<br />
Like you tight fisted git. (Man with deep pockets) or something like that.<br />
I am not fluent enough in arabic to get all of what he said only the. la la and again I carried on the rhythm of the archers theme song la lal lal la la la la. the archers is a long running radio programme about village life. Dan Archer if I remember correct kept some sheep<br />
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difference is these are most likely Bedhoin shephrds in the center of Cairo city<br />
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Nice old Jaguar parked outside the opera house in Zamalec.<br />
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This fiat 500 parked outside the French Emassy<br />
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and this old yank parked outside the opera house entrance.<br />
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Horses must be parked on the pavement<br />
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Some of the horses in cairo are really poorly treated there should not even be a tether on the back end of the horse the wound had maggots in it.<br />
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Ah now I know what I was wearing the day I went to Cairo<br />
A charming town and country vehicle parked near my favourite Fridays fish restaurant on the Nile.<br />
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And A well sprung seat on a well used bike,<br />
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Nile people who live on the River in the center of the City<br />
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The city dwellers and a source of fresh meat.<br />
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The tulip Tower from the bridge looking in the direction of the Pyramids Giza<br />
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one of the many cafe parks on the nile,<br />
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Zamalek is an Island and many of the Embassies and staff are housed on it,<br />
Opera house the zoo and Islamic University with its parks and gardens plus a couple of the bigger hotels. Not going to give them free publicity as they are well over rated and priced, I phoned this hotel from my home and was given A price of 180$, not bad for one night with a Nile view. on arrival at the hotel I was told they had a problem with the room and only had suite At 1500$ per night, I told them I was not interested in buying it as I only wanted the room for one night to sleep in, as you like I was told, and left I found a small hotel with a view overlooking the Museum and the Nile for 150 EGP per night and aptly named , Museum view hotel, there are lots of small hotels and reasonably priced in Cairo.<br />
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This overpriced hotel even has its own washing facilities<br />
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Flower shop near the French Embassy and across the road<br />
to my favorite restaurant , Fridays Fish Market<br />
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The plants that grow naturally have more fragrance ,<br />
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<div style="clear: both;">Can't go far without being reminded we are in the land of the Pharoes.</div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/SuCKdYEvJXI/AAAAAAAABqM/nOLWNwYxDnk/s1600-h/IMG_0932.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/SuCKdYEvJXI/AAAAAAAABqM/nOLWNwYxDnk/s400/IMG_0932.JPG" />'</a><br />
<span style="color: red;">Quote of the day </span><br />
These days you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-41770912605889487492010-09-09T23:50:00.000-07:002010-09-09T23:50:13.041-07:00nothing has changed<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 130%;">All I wanted was some fish, and ended up with a walk from my flat to Luxor town center 11/11/09</span><br />
I can not make a comment on this fish restaurant as I have not eaten there<br />
but judging be the display of supposed fresh fish heads on display I will not be eating there.<br />
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and looks like just as much thought has gone into the design of the restaurant fish sign.<br />
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Omar's is the one supermarket in Luxor that sells a good variety of food stuffs, including fish,<br />
it also comes with rats and dodgy till receipts not to mention putting more expensive items in a bag and forgetting to give you them on leaving. having to stop and wait for staff to finish eating in the isle under the air con. and complaining about smoking near the meat and dairy counter. but the worst is they turn the freezers off at night to save on the electric bill. Omar seems to think he is the only food retailers in Luxor<br />
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lots of fruit and veg shops to choose from<br />
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Just three of the dozen shops selling fruit and veg plus the stalls in one street<br />
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this is where my fish man once traded looks like he has lost his spot to the offal butcher, and sun bread seller. I wondered where he had gone and was pointed in the direction of the salem Salem Square, translated goodbye goodbye square. very apt for where the station is situated.<br />
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The new market behind Luxor station this has just recently opened this Head of Luxor council is really making a new look Luxor personalty I prefer the old way of buying my edible produce at lest I knew it was fresh especially the fish and meat , you also have a closed in environment with people smoking cigarettes and the bubble pipe. I also noticed there was not one fan working and it was at least 40c the tin roof does not help Either so this new idea has a thumbs down from me.<br />
the signs do not say fish market I wonder if I have come to the right place.<br />
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at least the donkey still has work but even here sadly or not the vehicles are taking over and what will become of the donkey. animal welfare are over loaded as it is and the farmer And trader cannot afford a donkey just to look at.<br />
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The one of many fish stalls this is the reason I came to visit the new Souk. I was informed my usual fish man had moved from the street to the new Souk. but here now he is only one of fifty.<br />
and his fish did not look as fresh as they were usually when he was on the street his fish were all sold by 13.00 its now 14.00. and only a few more hours of trading . where does he put the fish for tomorrow??.<br />
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Even in this new market there is overcrowding people selling on the walk area,<br />
This is what happens here in Egypt most likely the first few days of the new market ,my fish man would have been one of maybe 3 the other stall holders would have seen how quickly the fish was sold. so they started there own fish market. in turn this put the price of the fish up from the fisherman, all the fish sold here are local Nile fish. and the same goes for every stall holder here they all try to outdo each other. and every body here is a potential stall holder.<br />
another instance is my Landlord. he rents the small coffee shop downstairs for 1000le per month<br />
for the last 2 years to one man. now he put a link box in and receives all the football channels on tv. and is full every night. across the road we have the new government office now open and a lot of the men going there visit the coffee shop. so it's busy almost all day and night, now my landlord sits down stairs just looking how much money is being taken each day. and has now decided that the shop is not for rent after this month. nice greedy man a lot of people call him "hungry money" he also saw my local fish guy on his new stall. and opened a fish stall with a manager on it. he knew I buy at least 2 kilo of fish per week. and wanted me to buy from his friend.<br />
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All very Nice I hear you say trading here starts at 6.00 and the stalls are still half full at 14.00<br />
all the locals come early for the best fresh edibles.<br />
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offal stall these have usually stopped trading by 11.00 because they had sold out.<br />
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have no Idea what these two empty blocks are for,<br />
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I only saw one stall with prices on the produce, but i was told that there is a new police depot just outside the market. any complaints of overcharging the stall holder will be thrown off the market. apparently they all have to be licensed to sell inside the new market,<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">And a new Mosque so people can go and ask God not to be ripped off.<br />
and the stall holders pray for the foreigner to buy off him so he can rip us off.<br />
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The new Mowgaf ( microbus terminal)<br />
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<div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext">Luxor train station from the souk with one of the new trains these new trains have now extended the 12 hour journey to Cairo by four Hours. almost every day the train is 4 hours late.<br />
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The tunnel under the station once was to get to the platforms from the ticket office.<br />
is now a public thoroughfare to the market and mowgaf.<br />
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The revamped interior of Luxor station<br />
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the only flower in the new gardens around the station that has servived the summer heat it gets its water from the air condition over flow pipe of the New Information office.<br />
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the first view of Luxor Temple and this is mainly the reason tourists come to Luxor<br />
is the Hagag mosque. Newly refurbished when all else near the tombs and temples including the avenue of the sphinx Luxor to Karnak temple is coming down. this actually sits on the old temple walls and built from the temple stones.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/StHrU46_icI/AAAAAAAAA8I/rkDVbcq3kas/s1600-h/IMG_0205.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/StHrU46_icI/AAAAAAAAA8I/rkDVbcq3kas/s400/IMG_0205.JPG" /></a><br />
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as one of my next photos show of the demolished mosque that sat on the avenue. notice the base stone they are waiting for Archaeologists to come here before the take this part of the Mosque down,<br />
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there are some 1880s houses still standing on the main temple road from the station<br />
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This one was never finished.<br />
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View of Luxor Temple ,Hagag, the mosque that most visitors are taken too, and the remaining pirouette of the demolished mosque in the background<br />
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oo ah a cyper club ?<br />
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wonder what is in those two milk cans<br />
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better than being over loaded like this poor donkey<br />
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Any body want to buy a second hand bike one careful owner, honest! its just that he was to careful with his money and has lost the key for the lock.<br />
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Its what we call built in balcony Lighting.<br />
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These traders have no intention of moving to the new market just around the corner,<br />
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the government bread shop 5piestas for 1 piece of bread in the bakers its 50piestas and usually this street is packed with people buying, 12/11/09 bought two pieces of our daily bread.mostly used for breakfast as a sandwich this bread is hollow in the middle when cut in half is ideal to fill with whatever usually foul(Beans)and falafel, I use boiled eggs tomato and onion or garlic eggs.<br />
the bread used with the main meals is Sun bread, will also get a close up photo to show. there is sun bread being made on the first nilelife blog.<br />
<div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext">Queuing for bread<br />
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making a foul & falafel sandwich.<br />
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The Breakfast bar with the foul jar.<br />
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One Egyptian pound for two sandwich, one has beans and salad fill<br />
the other has falafel chips and salad fill. and they were yummy do not know what spices he used in the foul but it was very tasty. by the way if you do want to try Egypt like I do always eat at places like this every thing is fresh. no meat or fish is served in these breakfast bars, if the locals use it the place is good enough for us to eat in. and even if they charge us more than the locals it is still cheap food. best way is stand behind someone in the queue and see how much he pays. never give more than 5egp note they will always make out they have no change. its ok for me Most of these guys know I am a local. If I go late I will always get a fully filled sandwich.<br />
and keep one for later that way My food bill for the day is about 3 egp ,, eggs are 1egp for 3 ,<br />
tea and milk 15 egp for 100 tea bags. I find them more convenient than loose tea, that is much cheaper 3egp per packet. milk is 3 egp per 1/2 pint .. Litre. used for my tea us welsh like milk in our tea. we are not the only ones even in Kenya a country that has some of the best tea, take milk with tea. There is a story on tea making in Kenya on my new volunteering days story. that I have almost finished and will publish the next installment soon.<br />
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I see Plastic Alli shop is making Luxor a safe place to live<br />
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ooh is it a Ghost or the cost either way it will be just as frightening.<br />
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Here I can get my furniture reupholstered here on the high street<br />
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<div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div><div style="clear: both;">Air heads why one should open a guitar shop here in Luxor is beyond me,</div>it only stayed open for 6 months and the one guitar they had is still there .<br />
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<div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" />And this is the barber shop I have been using for the past two years</a><br />
it seems evrest is quite a popular name in Luxor there are several shops called evrest.<br />
plus an ev rest hotel the e has been stolen by some one leaving a gap for the birds to roost on the holding bracket.</div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/StCjeUjuzsI/AAAAAAAAA4A/8unTBTByo0k/s1600-h/barber.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/StCjeUjuzsI/AAAAAAAAA4A/8unTBTByo0k/s400/barber.jpg" /></a><br />
My barber shop has full blare speakers its the only way to listen to music in Egypt.<br />
I suppose its to overcome the full blast speakers on the minarets,<br />
I have 20% hearing in my left ear and 40% in the right so if these are loud for me god knows what the people who can hear have to put up with,<br />
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rag and bone man. clearing up after the days trading.<br />
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One of the local farmers heading to the veg Market.<br />
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<div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-35472552899110566502010-09-08T16:27:00.001-07:002011-08-14T01:05:06.713-07:00Inside-Egypt-Pharaohs-Brink-Revolution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One of the reasons I have taken down all related posts to my being swindled here in Egypt. is written in this book. surprise !!!!surprise!!! its happened to others before me, a crime of this sort is reported every 2 minutes in Egypt.<br />
If this book had been written prior to my coming to Egypt in 2002. I would never have come here to live. its a must read for anyone thinking of coming to live in Egypt.<br />
I am talking investing in egypt. ie buying property in egypt,<br />
I enjoy Living here in Egypt its just a shame I got caught up in its corruption.<br />
the page 185 in this book are excactly what happened to me.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Egypt-Pharaohs-Brink-Revolution/dp/1403984778#reader_1403984778">http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Egypt-Pharaohs-Brink-Revolution/dp/1403984778#reader_1403984778</a><a href="http://picsdigger.com/image/7aaae8b5/"><img alt="inside egypt" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:hUsTPEMHPWjpGM:" /></a></div>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-81813939095856883162010-09-03T17:33:00.001-07:002010-09-03T17:48:05.200-07:00no salt here<div class="post-header"></div>Making foul the best tasting (fool) is made this way cooked slowly overnight in the household rubbish including what waste comes from the animals backsides. Beans mixed with herbs and spices.<br />
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another salesman in the village.<br />
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This guy is the tree cleaner the matting from the tree has many uses, used as a cloth to wash . made into all types of brushes brooms paint Etc the branches also have a number of uses first to make chairs and tables crates for fruit and vegetables, folds (pens) for the animals wattling for wall etc, etc,<br />
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The old pump house chimney as you get closer it looks like a forgotten relic in the middle of the village now a place for dumping the rubbish that's if the village people can be bothered to step out of the front door to tip their rubbish, a place that houses snakes rats and other wildlife inside, gone has any piece of metal that would have any monitory value, only the steel bends are left just incase someone will need them and therefore will have more value than scrap iron.<br />
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the opening seen in the base of the chimney<br />
this a shot looking up the inside of the chimney and it took all my will power to stop me climbing up there to get a surrounding areal view A few years ago I would not have even thought about it but I know my back would have given in half way up and unlike a ladder with poles each side of the rungs if I did get stuck <br />
I could have slid down to safety . we must grow old gracefully and give in. such is life.<br />
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The whole of this buildings windows and doors have been bricked up not that this will hinder the thieves of Egypt .. the seem to have the God given right to take anything, Ah its a gift from Allah. <br />
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Looking up from what was the grand entrance into the pump house, <br />
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The villagers view of the Building. <br />
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</div>Not sure if this is the older of the two pump houses but its in bad disrepair<br />
the land around and inside has been filled in and we are now looking at what was the first floor<br />
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Inside the floor has been filled with rubbish so none of the old plinths etc that the old machines stood on are visable the brickwork with the hole in it is the chimney base and the opening for the fire is another 2 metres down in the infill. this building dates back to the mid 1800s and has I would think been derelict since the late 20s when mechanical pumps came into use.. I do not know what these steam engines where fired up with but wood is not ready available in Egypt never has been even the Pharaos brought timber in from Lebanon and other countries. And I have not heard that coal has been mined here but the coals could have been brought by barge down the Nile as all these pump houses just like the Temples were built by the Nile. <br />
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Even the roof timbers are made from palm trees these are not a good burner the tend to smoke not heat up and would not have been any use to heat up the huge boilers to drive the beam engine pumps that could lift up to 200 gallons of water into the canals in one stroke these pump houses only had one use and that was for irrigation of the land. the people used the Nile for everything they came to the Nile for drinking water, ablutions and bathing. everything was washed in the Nile including the domestic animals, the water was always clean because it flows so fast. that was before they built the Dams te regulate its waters,<br />
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they say themselves NO NILE NO EGYPT. and its a pity the mentality has gone to keep the Nile Clean.<br />
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Half filled in is the pit where once the pipes lay just a trap now for snakes and the children that wish to piss in it<br />
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Views from the old pump house of the Nile <br />
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A new born Donkey foal <br />
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A second view at the bread oven its sole purpose is to cook bread not to burn rubbish even though they use plastic and whatever the can find to heat these ovens up. the worst thing they use now is polystyrene from packages that foul acrid smell and black pieces hovering in the air and getting on peoples chests, but no thought of that here these are simple people and this stuff makes good quick heat . hooray for polystyrene coming to Egypt they say?%$&"<br />
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The front door an excelent bit of craftmanship using local materials<br />
one side of the door the wall has sunk 4" <br />
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The scenery here on the outscirts of Luxor City is supperb and one of the reasons I chose to live here and<br />
its simple way of life, back in 2002 I did not know or realize how simple the people are,<br />
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No we are not on the riviera this is the Nile at Luxor the Nile is at its lowest and dirtiest<br />
no swimming for us foreigners unless we need a dose of dysentery or a mouth infection,<br />
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I could be on a tropical Island<br />
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Or even a deserted Island <br />
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Or crossing the Atlantic watching the wake from the propellers of a huge ocean liner <br />
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but here I am in Luxor Egypt cropping photos to show you how Nice this place is<br />
and its a shame because this place I chose to live has so much going for it but the culture of the natives spoil its beauty, but I can find Quiet places and have my dreams.<br />
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</a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/Szuz1iir-II/AAAAAAAAFC8/t1VgonZcfPo/s1600-h/IMG_0013.JPG"> </a>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-4935100429820729952010-08-25T18:16:00.000-07:002010-08-25T18:16:51.679-07:00New posts for nile life<div class="post-header"> </div>Yesterdays blog took almost 2 hours to set up, and today I have been told that I have exceeded my quota.on the nilelife2 blog. and they have give me a list of yearly prices for more space. 4 days ago I prepared this site for my going on travels. I moved almost 300 photos to the nilelife.blogspot to save any hassle while traveling.<br />
anyway as it turns out todays blog is mainly writting and this will be the last post on here.the new posts are on <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/">http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/ </a> </span>my original nilelife blogspot<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/TG0SwYSLVHI/AAAAAAAAOWI/aA6iUyHddfk/s1600/220px-Mause.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/TG0SwYSLVHI/AAAAAAAAOWI/aA6iUyHddfk/s320/220px-Mause.jpg" /></a></div>You will also have to read this post on the nile life post. it apparently takes google 3 months. to off load the photos I have taken off?????????????? they are a law unto themselves no way of connecting to them ,<br />
so what I say is play the game make a new Gmail address and make a new blog as I have in the past. 4 gmail addresses now, nilelife... 1..2....4.. all you need do is take out or add the no and put in 1, 2 or 4<br />
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sorry about this but I do hope you will cintinue to follow on the nilelife. blogspot I am off on my travels around Egypt for a few weeks and will be blogging every evening on what I see on my journey.<br />
<a href="http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/">http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/</a>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-51332840847380790422010-08-19T04:50:00.000-07:002010-08-19T14:41:21.734-07:00The rat trap, is google a rat trapYesterdays blog took almost 2 hours to set up, and today I have been told that I have exceeded my quota.on the nilelife2 blog. and they have give me a list of yearly prices for more space. 4 days ago I prepared this site for my going on travels. I moved almost 300 photos to the nilelife.blogspot to save any hassle while traveling.<br />
anyway as it turns out todays blog is mainly writting and this will be the last post on here.the new posts will be<a href="http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/">http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/ </a> my original nilelife blogspot<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/TG0SwYSLVHI/AAAAAAAAOWI/aA6iUyHddfk/s1600/220px-Mause.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LTUrjXZIg1I/TG0SwYSLVHI/AAAAAAAAOWI/aA6iUyHddfk/s320/220px-Mause.jpg" /></a></div>You will also have to read this post on the nile life post. it apparently takes google 3 months. to off load the photos I have taken off?????????????? they are a law unto themselves no way of connecting to them ,<br />
so what I say is play the game make a new Gmail address and make a new blog as I have in the past. 4 gmail addresses now, nilelife... 1..2....4.. all you need do is take out or add the no and put in 1, 2 or 4<br />
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sorry about this but I do hope you will cintinue to follow on the nilelife. blogspot I am off on my travels around Egypt for a few weeks and will be blogging every evening on what I see on my journey.<br />
<a href="http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/">http://www.nilelife.blogspot.com/</a>Tony nile lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17124433331811947363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340092994371569640.post-11325489261907927232010-08-18T08:19:00.000-07:002010-08-18T09:03:08.952-07:00Duck for DinnerYesterday I had a duck nothing special just a duck; I cooked it in the oven and glazed it with honey, did not fancy anything with it, I mean cooking. so I just prepared a salad, tomato cucumber and finely chopped onion, And ate it as I cleaned the kitchen. and I mean cleaned the kitchen everything off the shelves and in the cupboards had a clean . what they might call a thorough going over. I went to bed at 2.30 this morning and woke up at 10.30. went to make a cup of tea in my clean kitchen. and the whole kitchen had a layer of dust. silly ole me forgot to close the windows after the cooking of the duck.<br />
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sods law: did I see a cat, well yes! just as I was in the last street heading back home after travelling all the way around the old market street. The just going out to get a photo of a cat turned out to be a 3 mile trek around Luxor's old market area, and suprise suprise lots of picks of everything but a cat.<br />
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