My Life in Egypt
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When there is nothing to do – what do you do?
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
Retirement, forced retirement, unemployment in a country experiencing economic disaster, losing a business, physical incapacity, old-age resulting in deteriorating physical mobility, imprisonment, losing children or family whether because they have grown up, moved away or lost through divorce etc. – […]
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Egypt – Wading through mud!
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
The good days can be wonderful but the “bad” days can drive you nuts. There are days – like today – when trying to get something done is like wading through mud, have you ever tried it? When I was […]
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Exploding watermelons – do you want to eat growth hormone?
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
If I wanted to take growth hormones I would go to the doctor not the supermarket! Exploding watermelons in China – poetic justice from Mother Earth towards greedy farmers as far as I am concerned. They injected too much growth […]
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One doesn’t need to be a Fortune Teller…..but……
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
We learn from history……or we don’t – mostly it seems in Egypt, we don’t. We had the swine flu’ scare and the government of the day immediately ordered the slaughter of all the pigs in Cairo. So what? So what […]
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Would You Invest in Egypt Today?
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
Egypt’s current and future economy is on my mind – it’s been on my mind every day since Jan! You see, I’m a small foreign investor here – would have been bigger investor if I had not fallen foul of […]
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Lost My Head in the Bank!
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
“Do you speak arabic?” I am often asked…….from now on my answer will be “just enough to cause a riot if I want!” One thing that sends my blood pressure up is when someone jumps a queue I am standing […]
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Egyptians’ Self-Denial of Human Rights – Part I
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
In a fight against corruption, suppression, police intimidation and in their search of human rights the people of Egypt took to the streets in early 2011 and so began the Egyptian Revolution which ended in the ousting of President Mubark […]
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Egypt orders Pharaoh Mubarak name stripped off
Mara
Owner at Mara House Hotel LuxorHi - I'm Mara from Ireland and my passion is to show you the Egypt of your dreams - send me an email maraegypt@gmail.comLatest posts by Mara (see all)
- Tipping in Egypt - 21/06/2019
- Feeling Grateful… - 11/03/2019
- Ibn Tulun Mosque & Noah’s Ark - 20/12/2018
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it. – The Rubaiyat of Omar […]
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