Tagged: dahab

June 30, 2012

French Conversation

The resort beach at the far end of town has some rather fine windsurfing on offer, and I figured that, with the water relatively warm...

June 26, 2012

I was going to start this post by badmouthing my babyfather, always a classy move online, for putting Z on the world’s most antisocial flight,...

June 21, 2012

This is my third time looking for a house to rent in a foreign country, and I’m beginning to feel quite fluent in it. Plus,...

June 20, 2012

I was less than sanguine about returning to Dahab. Sure, I love Dahab. And as a quiet, beautiful, cost-effective place in which to work with...

March 25, 2012

Besides the kittens, the rooftop bars, the seafood and the fireside lounging, Dahab is about two things: the Red Sea and the Sinai desert. And...

March 24, 2012

A round, amiable man, J is in his 40s, and runs a business in Dahab, Sinai. He has a small son who lives with his...

March 23, 2012

This is a timeless scene. A Bedouin man in traditional scarf and djellaba reclines in the sun on the top of Mount Sinai, the place...

March 22, 2012

The Sinai desert is a place of many colours. The green palms of desert oases; the rich gold wind-rippled peaks of sand dunes. The wasteland...

March 19, 2012

There’s something about Dahab which produces a phenomenon of sloth I like to think of as “mission creep”, but which might better be described as...

March 14, 2012

What DO you do for four days in the Sinai desert, if you’re an eleven-year-old kid? You roll down dunes, slide down dunes, swim down...