Three Egypt travel secrets

Big thanks to Sabina Lohr for tagging me in the Tripbase Best Kept Travel Secrets project!
Secrets are funny things. We like hearing them almost as much as we love sharing them. Though we know we probably shouldn’t. Same goes for travel. I mean, if I told you all about the Pyramids, millions of tourists would [...]

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Myths and Magic at St Hilarion Castle

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You aren’t a proper castle until someone’s been chucked off your battlements. Forget drawbridges, arrow-slits, knights in chainmail and damsels in distress. Unless some poor unfortunate has taken a nosedive off the ramparts, you are just an ugly building on a hill, with thicker than average walls.
St Hilarion Castle, looking down over Kyrenia in [...]

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Stuff I’ve learned after a few days in North Cyprus

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I’m on holiday in North Cyprus. Like a dutiful son, I’ve come to meet my mother. She hates Cairo, and England in February sucks. So we’re meeting half way. We’re doing a tour together, which for an ex-tour leader is sort of bizarre. I hope I don’t turn out to be a back seat leader! [...]

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Snippets of Cairo’s Friday Market

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Background
Souq al-Goma’a, the Friday Market, is one of the largest in Cairo. It’s just south of the Citadel, sandwiched between the southern City of the Dead (the rather macabre Hammer-horror name given to the Mamluk-era cemeteries) and a poor neighbourhood called Khalifa.
It stretches further than the eye can see, under the Autostrade, along some [...]

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Cairo in 513 words

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They say that on a clear day you can see the Pyramids from here. But there are few clear days in Cairo, and I no longer bother to look. I’m jammed into the front seat of an ancient black cab, which means there’s no fixed fare. I glance at the driver, sizing him up. Fine [...]

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