Iraq

There is a lot of news about Iraq lately.
In general: another suicide bomb attack. How courageous.
But for the real life stories from Bagdad read the blog of Mohammed.

My first trip to Egypt

I was 17, 30 years ago, if I remember myself well..)) Made my first trip to Egypt. In fact, we, my friend Han and I, bought an inter rail ticket, which means: one month free traveling by train in Europe. But we already had our plans; straight to Athens, and then check how we could go to Egypt.
We left on a sunny Saturday morning from Utrecht, all the way to Athens, where we arrived the next Monday, late at night. Two and a half days by train...


After we checked in at a hotel in downtown Athens, we looked for a flight to Cairo.
We knew that IPEC (a student organization by then) offered one way tickets to Cairo from Athens. But, both of us were no students then. Anyway, Han 'seduced' the front office employee of this organization and we got our tickets: 25 USD each...

Our first visit in Cairo was of course to Gizeh.

See the pictures.


One of the most interesting part was 'climbing' in the pyramid, all the way up to the Kings' Chamber....



It is still a mystery, how this could be built....

More about my trip later...