LATEST NEWS: 1. Following allegations that ALL striking staff members at the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor are part of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood – 10 employees were taken away by Police for questioning yesterday…..unique way to deal with striking workers….hope it is not a sign of things to come! 2. Mid-day yesterday 5 employees…
When speaking of Egypt’s 2011 Revolution and the Arab Spring many like to say that Egypt revolted for bread, dignity and social justice. But which Egypt revolted? And against whom did Egypt revolt? Let’s play along with what may appear obvious here – but it is no harm to keep at the back of your…
This has got to be my favourite video!! Woman dances for joy after voting in Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum – just look at all the happy faces 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10153641636000391
The US Travel Warning for Egypt has been downgraded
Seems like today is moving day, get-up-and-go-day….but get up and go where? Ireland – kids back to school today, that seems to be the indication that Christmas has passed, New Year is no longer new and the question is what does 2014 hold for me? for you? for anyone? Soon I will be back in…
When you wonder if God is playing with you…. 1. You’re watching Nile TV – the Breakfast Show and you know that Deena Younis has just made a new film in Luxor about the tourist situation etc. and it is on this morning. You’re eagerly waiting in front of the TV and her segment is…
“Woke up this morning…feelin fine…..” I seem to remember a song with those words. Well, thank God, I did wake up this morning feeling fine – more importantly I continued to feel fine after finding two emails from two different lots of people in my inbox. Both cancelling their reservations for next week at Mara…
All foreigners living in Luxor were invited to a meeting at the Sofitel Hotel last Saturday night – I was really surprised to find there were so many ex-pats living in Luxor! I am not good with estimating crowds but I reckon there must have been up to 150 people at the meeting with the…
My blog is like a diary (for my book that is taking so long to write!) and sometimes I use it to let off steam…. The following is an email I received two days ago and it is lovely to hear my blog helped some people come to Egypt and have a good time 🙂…
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I am attempting to focus only on positive stuff – since I believe in Law of Attraction…therefore, I didn’t want to comment on this – but really I do so want to comment on this. So, I am going to look on the subject as a positive instead of a negative while still getting my…
When it appears that something is happening in Egypt – most likely nothing is happening in Egypt. When you think something is going to happen in Egypt – most likely it isn’t. We live in a kind of twilight zone. We always have one way or another, just our physical or economic survival was not…
We marvel at the Ancient Egyptians, what they did, what they left behind. We dig in the sand for their treasures, rob their tombs and put their bodies on open display in museums so we can gawk at death. We crave information on them. We crave connection with their spirituality. We wonder what they…
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There are 2 “Mara’s” – there is the practical adult who forgets what she is doing and gets bogged down in Egyptian/Middle East politics and ‘reality’ that is presented on the TV. Then there is there is the childlike one who comes from a magical Irish place, of faeries, leprechauns and mythical warriors which is…
So where are we today? Personally – and this is more of a personal touchy, feely post today…. Personally I have been DESPERATELY trying to NOT focus on Syria or Egypt’s ‘stuckness’. Am I succeeding? Of course not! Every time you see a FACEBOOK or TWITTER posting you know I’m not. But, as Esther once…
It appears that Egypt has lost and is still losing the international media war. They are short of video and stories of violence because to a greater extent the situation has stabilized here. Yet they continue with the insinuations of civil war, chaos and mayhem – Obama even linked in Egypt with Syria! Syria is…
My efforts over the last few months to bring businesses in Luxor together to discuss and to plan how to improve Luxor; solve some of our problems; make it a better place for ourselves and for tourists; to plan our own marketing, has all come to nothing. Why did I want to do this? Mostly…