Cairo's last Fez-maker
Skillfully brewing tea, smoking, and making a Fez at the same time.
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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a se... [read more]
The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a se... [read more] Blog: Continent number three! Cairo
Date: March 29th 2006
We had heard so many horror stories about Cairo. People warning and warning. Yes they were all true. It's noisy, busy, dirty and hot. Also though it is exciting, friendly, diverse, beautiful, interesting and fun! I wake to the call to prayer and a few hours later descend from our bargain roof top hotel in a very cool marble 1930's art deco stair well and fancy lift to get take away breakfas ... read more
Date: March 29th 2006
We had heard so many horror stories about Cairo. People warning and warning. Yes they were all true. It's noisy, busy, dirty and hot. Also though it is exciting, friendly, diverse, beautiful, interesting and fun! I wake to the call to prayer and a few hours later descend from our bargain roof top hotel in a very cool marble 1930's art deco stair well and fancy lift to get take away breakfas ... read more
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We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul.
We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous......
We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info
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