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I would like to thank Connie and Keith for all their help in finding me a lovely flat on the west bank for the new year. The flat was very spacious, clean and very reasonably priced so once again a...
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I think on some internet sites they may be referred to as pins too.
Is that was PINTEREST is? Seems a new phenomenon to hit the Web and I've even been invited on some website to PIN it but never...
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A question for our friends in Luxor.
Our French district nurse has asked whether we can obtain camel wool in Luxor for her to use in knitting as she wants to make really warm socks. I had shown her...
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Thanks for the suggestions. My scarf was purchased at the Badawiya hotel in Dakla. I'm thinking maybe the Sandouk shop on the ramla. The camels on the farm by our place would provide loads of wool...
What a fabulous 5 course traditional Christmas Dinner my friends and i have just enjoyed at the Gaddis! Id give it 10 stars if I could. Every course was superb, the service was faultless, the table...
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Hope someone now follows suit and posts a review of the Christmas Day meal that Snobs were advertising. The price advertised was 500 EGP which with todays exchange rate is an absolute bargain.
The nicest kind of presents are those that are totally unexpected and out of the blue. I was lucky enough to receive one such present just recently. What was particularly surprising was that it was a...
A sunny morning walk through olde Clerkenwell down to busy Smithfield, I need to make some ham,
all porters shutting up shop to head home or to the pubs until Sunday night, when for them it all...
I suffer from very dry hands and no amount of hand cream of any type makes them feel particularly comfortable, and I often get painful cuts in my fingertips because they are so dry. Ive tried all...
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Is that where they used to sell confit duck, chutney ect ?..... 8)
My friends and I have found a new place in Ramla called Baladi , at the bottom of the street leading up to Gezira Garden. It is a very strange but interesting mix of Pet Food Store and Waffles...
I would normally like to give my custom to local shops but these are strange times we live in. Even in normal times I hate having to go over the river to shop, especially in the hot weather, so just...
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I've used them before too, delivered to I think its called Amrex(sp) on TV Street, I was told when the item had arrived via txt message, paid the money in the Amrex shop :)
So there I was lying down in the beauty salon having my nails manicured – with a couple of snails moving round on my face. As you do. I hadn’t actually intended having a facial before I went – id...
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I much prefer my facial injections every 6 months, and now Botox is almost a thing of the past even better. Laid with my eyes closed, getting tiny injections, with my hands and feet in a bowl of warm...
Clerkenwell, 5 minutes from my abode.
Simona took this and said 'they don't come across very well...`The Robbers that is..
'What do you expect they robbed the Royal Mail, stealing old banknotes and...
Well back on the manor, things change and don't change but as mad as ever..
Her indoors who's becoming British in two weeks time has the major coming to induct her,
It's In the town hall, she's...
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The downside of London is the cost.
Cheapest haircut Italien Tony's @ Sadlers' Wells Barbers £12 quid.
Here because it's Ramadan, my barber Elad a coptic comes to me, £4 quid inc: Haircut, fettler,...
I used the above Agency to meet and great friends of mine at Hurghada Airport, transfer them to a Hotel in Hurghada and then drive them up to Luxor the next day. Later the Agency transferred them...
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Funnily enough my friend upstairs returned home this evening from a several hour jaunt into the desert regions with others. She was glowing red due to over exposure to the sun, showed me her photo's...
I know it's not a place but a company however having been on a few trips now with them this past couple of weeks and prior to that, I can't speak highly enough of the drivers the vehicles and the...
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I used them from and to Hurghada in October last year. No complaints, punctual pickups and reasonably priced - £50 from Iberotel Luxor - Hurghada airport. The car (think it was the same one in both...
Best thing Iv'e seen for a long time on the West Bank...
Brilliant art and not mad prices..
So go visit, enjoy 3 minutes walk from a bar, JJ's..No booze at the opening but a really eclectic nice...
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Who2. Thanks. Is the gallery connected with the university/Fine arts discipline that has produced a few radical public artists/graffitists in the past years. Its amazing the sophistication of their...
A bit of history.
Just listening to Simon Callow on Oscar Wilde on Radio 4.
They mentioned The House of Detention and my mind started turning over.
The underground cells have never been fully...
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An hour or so, after I land at 'Theifrow in a few weeks time, I will be supping a pint of Landlords in-front of a real fire in the Kings,
before walking up the 'winding road past the house of...
Five of us went into Luxor last night so I could arrange transport for my new TV. We were all hungry so Mac D's was suggest. I declined as a couple of days before as my friend and I visited the TV...
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One of the chicken sandwiches had the spicy chicken, she said is was not very hot, but very tasty.
Last night I wasn't in the mood to cook or to go out for a meal and a friend suggested trying a takeaway from ToI. I telephoned placed the order and picked up my chicken tikka masala and ice cold...
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Used to love your peshwari naan, glad it's back on the menu. Next visit, it's a cert!
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