Posts Tagged ‘Egypt tour’

Stories from Egypt: Visiting the Carpet School

This is an excerpt from the book I am writing, working title: Travels Through Egypt (and yes, I am taking suggestions for names!!): The next stop is one of the carpet schools near Sakkhara.  The idea behind them is that they take these little Egyptian kids, who would otherwise be roaming the streets, and they [...]

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April 6th, 2009
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Category: Dispatches from the Road

The road to Alex

Today we drove to Alexandria. It’s about 3 hours from Cairo by bus (with a 20 minute rest stop at the largest souvenir mall we can find), through desert being largely claimed by homesteaders, and – increasingly frequently –  builders creating communities out in the middle of nowhere. This is distance it once would have [...]

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January 16th, 2009
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Category: Dispatches from the Road