On this 91st consecutive Sunday since lockdown, I thought it might be nice to write about my stay in Egypt in November-December of last year. It’s based on my actual journal, with some accompanying photos. Enjoy! 18 November 2019 On a dreary Monday in November, after my short contract working on a project in a…
Order and chaos in Assassin’s Creed Origins
So it took me a while to start playing Assassin’s Creed Origins, and the truth is, I haven’t finished it. I who am scared of dying in videogames ever since Super Mario Bros on the original NES, has been roaming Ptolemaic Egypt for over 80 hours now, sneaking up on countless Romans in order to…
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
In the past few years, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has had an active policy of reporting new discoveries in Egypt on a frequent basis, to keep Egypt positively in the news as well as interest tourists in visiting the country. Indeed tourism has largely picked up again since the 2011 revolution, and in the…
Thomas Cook and the way to see the Nile
When Thomas Cook went bankrupt in September 2019, hundreds of thousands of holiday makers were stranded. Tens of thousands of employees were out of a job, including many local service providers. Thomas Cook and Son was a household name in the travel industry, two men who single-handedly invented organised travel, and paved the way for…