Battery antics

Waiting for the Ferry to Jordan

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December 23rd 2009
Geo: 29.0488, 34.6565Our second vehicle battery started to boil and filled the car with Hydrogen Sulphide fumes. No problem we just need to get a new one. Okay so we are in a remote desert town, our Arabic is non existent. We pull up at a building that looks like a mechanical shop, open the bonnet and point at the battery. Arabs are very loud, flamboyant and lots of babbling a car turned up ... read more

Africa » Egypt

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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 ser... ... read more