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Day 2. Citadel & Cairo Museum.
Our first day of exploring. We had to contend with the Cairo traffic, the heat & a guide called Russia! The Citadel of Salah al-Din was our first experience of Egyptian history - a fortified...
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Day 3. Pyramids of Giza. Camels and Papyrus.
We visited the Pyramids of Giza and went inside the Second Pyramid to visit Cephren's burial chamber - quite a challenge as one clambered down a narrow passage, bent double, while coping with the...
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Cairo to Aswan - sleeper train.
We took the overnight sleeper train from Cairo to Aswan.
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Day 4. Aswan. Unfinished Obelisk & Aswan High Dam.
After a morning relaxing by the pool, a select group braved the intense heat to visit a nearby quarry where lay the Unfinished Obelisk. Incredible to realize that it was being quarried by hand - with...
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Benedict has a prang
Benedict split his forehead whilst playing on rails/fencing at the local Aeromodelism display.The cut was only a 1 cm long cut, but full skin thickness. Blood everywhere. Benedict was crying but was...
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Ian at CERN
Ian is at CERN. Visiting the LHC and chasing anti-particles or somesuch (see image at right for an example of "somesuch"). You can read a great account of this sort of thing in Angels and Demons by Dan...
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The Yorstons at Radley at Easter
A Play on Words in Seven Acts [1]Censors’ note on sex and marriage. There are still just the four of us. Despite at least one of us being Catholic. And we’re still pretty much a nuclear family. Despite...
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Alexandra has gone away...
...to the Chateaux de Sauveterre, in the South of France.A couple of hours north of Toulouse.She'll be there all summer until July.Tough life...
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Benedict plays some Tennis
Benedict managed to play 5 hours of tennis today.11 matches - 10 Singles and one Doubles.He won all eleven.And then wandered off to sing in the Chapel Choir.Busy Day...
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Child Labour
Alexandra writes:"As you can see, Sauveterre is all about is child-labour !Well..., really we asked to clean the car !Sauveterre is actually about having fun and learning French.Every Wednesday we have...
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