Tagged: sinai

July 3, 2012

Jellyfish Soup

When you’re loading camels up with scuba tanks, you know you’re off on an adventure. Enough of an adventure, in fact, to overcome my longstanding...

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,...

May 4, 2012

Back when we did our Sinai desert trip, we came across this amazing table. Get a load of it! In its stylish, zinc clad elegance,...

April 26, 2012

“How safe is Egypt now?” Still a topical question, so I’ve updated this post on 16 20 June 2012. Deletions are marked with a strikethrough...

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 20, 2012

S is 40, and worked as a dive master before he started guiding tourists: he was married in his 20s but it didn’t last. Compact...

March 16, 2012

Eid is 35, but looks older. As a child he worked in the Sinai desert, tending the family’s goats as they migrated in search of...