At Khan il Khalili market
The situation of women in Egypt is every bit under the thumb as I expected and could get worse – more and more seem to be in full hijab which is very weird. Continue reading ‘Under the veil’
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Room 301 at the Metropole
Journey to Alexandria
Feeling smug about avoiding ground transport and taxis, we boarded the Metro for Mubarek and walked into Ramesses Station. King Hotel to platform in 35 mins, carrying light packs and handbags. Train itself took about 2hr 20mins to cover the 200+km, would have been hard to have been one of Napoleon’s troops doing this through the desert on foot. From Iskandreya station we walked down Danial to the beautiful Metropole Hotel, a total joy with fabulous breakfasts, elegant furniture, the antique and slightly vertigo inducing central lift, and our gold gilded room was fit for minor royalty. Everything in the marble bathroom worked, a first for Egypt.
Continue reading ‘Express to Alexandria’
Many thousands of Canberra’s secondary college graduates might not be aware that the excellent education they received is no longer available to current and future students, as a result of the 2006 staffing cuts of 60 teachers in secondary schools imposed by the Labor government currently seeking re-election. Continue reading ‘Rob’s angry letter to Canberra Times about Labor’s cuts to colleges’
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