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Recommend to members and guests the best places in Egypt to visit, stay, eat , drink or shop for souvenirs and necessities.
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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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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!
If you are in need of new carpets and rugs then I would suggest you visit the new and very modern 'Oriental Weavers' store on Medina Street (about 50 yards from, and same side as, Omar Supermarket)....
I know Luxor Medical Centre gets mixed reviews, but I have to say my experience yesterday couldn’t be bettered. It wasn’t an emergency, I wanted to see a GP and didn’t have a prebooked appt. I chose...
Suzy was/is the hairdresser at the Steigenberger beauty salon but now she has opened her own very upmarket and stylish beauty salon in St Joseph St (near to Pizza Roma - look for the wedding...
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Full face threading - 50LE
Is that where they remove the brain through the nostrils ?
I'm not into piercings so I'll give that a miss!
Yes Brian give them enough time they will probably find...
Maximes is a VERY upmarket coffee shop and restaurant, catering for both Egyptians and tourists in the style of a medieval Arabic palace. It's situated in beautiful gardens (but also has some indoor...
For anyone wanting to stay in a Nile side hotel, but on a reduced budget you may well find the Lotus is for you. I booked this hotel over 6 months ago through Booking.com - with the idea that if...
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And you call me cynical Hafiz!
And yes...the Lotus is wonderful. You're never lonely at the Lotus ;)
FB: A couple of posts....
A long awaited report , and long overdue . A message to you undecided on behalf of foreigners who visit or live in Egypt , especially in Hurghada we feel safer here than our...
