Alan Irwin’s Blog

WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN (Cue Go-Gos music…) Our hotel is in the relatively quiet island neighborhood known as Zemalek. The shops are more upscale and cater to employees of the many embassies located in the area. (The U.S. embassy, however is not in Zemalek and we seriously doubt it looks like one of the many [...]

GEEZERS IN GIZA There are many tourists who bemoan the fact that the Sphinx doesn’t seem very large. Whiners I say. Relative to the massive Great Pyramid of Cheops (2,550,000 cubic meters and the second most massive structure ever built – extra credit if you can name the largest) over which it stands guard, perhaps [...]

AMSTERDAM – Gouda for Us We know what you really want to know: Yes, we briefly strolled the edge of the Red Light District. Yes, we checked out the “coffee shops” where one can order a latte as a chaser to a wide selection of joints. No we did not partake. But we did have [...]