Year: 2008

Last night, the good man at the front desk asked if I wanted to be woken up. I said I wanted to use the cell phone as an alarm clock, but after some back and forth, I agreed. What luck. During the night, the phone changed from daylight saving time to winter time. When the […]

So, last day today. Tomorrow at 4:30 the driver comes to the airport Hurghada. Then it goes back; to where it is cold and rainy. At 9 o’clock with the shuttle still to the in-house beach at the Red Sea. Quite nice, but Cuxhaven offers more. The water is far away because of the tide […]

It’s a great facility here at the Steigenberger Golf Resort Hotel. However, not quite my cup of tea. New and old have never been. Food is of course top class and even the spaghetti is on the plate and not next to it. Towards afternoon a short tour to downtown El Gouna. Here everything really […]

So, the reason for the trip is reached…. Now I can join in with the 50-year-olds. Today we go in convoy from Luxor to El Gouna. At 8 o’clock we start. Mohammed says goodbye and hands us over to two drivers. One of them speaks a little English, the other apparently not at all. Around […]

Last day in Luxor. Very early on deck you can see the balloons rising over the Valley of the Kings on the east bank. Some make their rounds all the way over Luxor. Behind the MS Nile Style lies the Sudan. Built about 1850 (says Mohammed) and still in service. Beautiful wooden superstructure. Agatha Christie […]

At shortly before six we have to get up. In the night – around four – we have left Aswan and are on the way down the Nile in the direction of Luxor. Finally this stupid ship on the side left behind us. Around seven o’clock we are supposed to visit the temple in Kom […]

At a quarter to four we stand tired at the square. At four the convoy starts moving. Now 200km of desert to cross. There the Egyptians can really show that they have it on it. 140 to 160 kilometers per hour. One overtakes the other – completely indiscriminately. After overtaking, turn off the lights, flash […]

Something was different. Slept quite well. I guess because the night before didn’t go so well. Anyway, the engine is still howling. The whole thing twice more… Not until Tuesday night we are supposed to leave – and, since the other one can’t leave because we are in front of it, it will stay that […]