Tag: Egypt
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What Am I Doing Here? 52 Weeks of Wandering and Wondering in 2012
He was 40 years old, living in a Moroccan medina with a wife he could barely communicate with and a baby daughter who was learning to walk. He had no…
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Vagabond Explorer – Sir Richard Francis Burton
Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton was quite possibly the greatest vagabond in history. In his lifetime he lived diverse cultures, broke boundaries, and did most of it without much in…
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Herodotus – The Father of History (and all Vagabonds)
Not only the father of history but of anthropology, and one can equally (but not so forcefully) argue he is the father of all travel writers and vagabonds.
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Eudoxus of Cyzicus – Extraordinary Navigator Lost at Sea
f you start a conversation about either Eudoxus or Cyzicus – you are likely to immediately asked Who? What? or Huh?
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Travelling in Turkey – More Greek and Roman Ruins than Italy and Greece!
Again, not a lot of time to write, but we are having a wonderful time in Turkey. From cruising the Bosporus to marveling at the Iskander Kebap in Bursa, this…
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How Not To Enjoy World Travel – Part 2
Don’t read anything about the country of place you are going to. That way you won’t understand the culture, the traditions, the history, the climate, or anything else. You will…
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The Egyptian Hustle
I was fortunate to be able to visit Egypt just shortly after the Arab Spring. It was an unplanned trip. I hope you enjoy my narrative of it. The Egyptian…
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Visiting the Great Pyramids of Egypt after the Arab Spring – Slideshow Saturday
As a child, I was fascinated by the pyramids and the culture of the Egyptians. I used to sit on the floor of my grandmonther’s house and look…
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Around the World in 18 Days – An iPad App/ Travel eBook
Traveling around the world in eighteen days, Andy Davies, took nine flights and six trains in nine incredible countries. Along the way he took hundreds of photographs and captured the…
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Ancient Egyptian City Found from Space
Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say. Images captured from space pinpoint telltale signs of previous habitation in the swatch of land 200 miles…
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Egyptian queen Cleopatra was no stunner, coin shows
You might not want to compare your girls beauty to Cleopatra….Happy VD. cd LONDON (AFP) – When Shakespeare wrote that the face of Cleopatra, the ancient queen of Egypt, “beggar’d…
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