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Serabit al Khadem – our trip
Tuesday last week, 6 am, we left Sunrise Lodge in Ahmed’s capable hands and headed off into deepest Sinai to find the pharaonic turquoise mines at Serabit al Khadem. Although they’re not hugely far...
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Desert Adventures
Once again, we took off and left Sunrise Lodge to our lovely guests (we’re totally full, of all totally wonderful people and that makes us feel fantastic!!) and of course Ahmed and we went into the...
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Circ Bonboni
Ah…. Circ Bonboni. The manifestation of the inspiration, imagination, creativity and determination of the people of Dahab. After months of training, and led by Regula Mahler Bashir, a Swiss dancer...
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I looked over Jordan, and what did I see…?
Everyone’s talking about Jordan at the moment; Twitter feeds are littered with Jordan related hash tags. For a while it seemed as though the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge themselves were flying in for...
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The Samouni Family Project
So, after our big collection (led and organised by Maya Shalaby who has just done an absolutely incredible job and I’m so grateful to have met her…), here is the round up of everything donated by the...
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My own Top 10: Things to do in Dahab
So I spend a fair amount of time on Twitter (follow us here) and I follow an awful lot (I should say a wonderful lot, really) of “Travel Tweeps” – mainly travel bloggers who backpack their way round...
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The 3 Reasons Why I’ve Been Up Mount Sinai 19 times
I used to get paid to walk up Mount Sinai in the middle of the night to watch the sun rise up over the mountains, or at any rate it was part of my job as a tourleader here in Egypt, and that explains...
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How on earth did I end up in Egypt?
I love having chats with customers at Sunrise Lodge, but there’s one question that I get asked so routinely, the answer now must sound scripted. I’m asked virtually daily how on earth I’ve come to live...
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Cairo, Cairo, Cairo….
My next blog instalment was meant to be about an unplanned and invigorating four-night trip I made to Cairo last week, but it all seems a bit outdated already with the current political events going on...
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Christmas in the Sunshine
I have to say, I’ve never really understood Australians getting excited about their Christmas Day beach outings. Christmas is Christmas. Christmas is cold. Cold is Christmas. There’s no place for...
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