Two more great days of sightseeing in Cairo. Yesterday afternoon began, contrary to our expectations, with Coptic Cairo. That's an area of the city where the Christian community lived in the post-Roman time and is home to several ancient churches, the Coptic museum and even a synagogue, the first I have ever been in, as well as the oldest mosque in Africa. The churches were lovely, as a proud Englishman I was especially delighted with the many figures of St Geo...

Just landed back in Cairo this morning, after an early flight from Luxor. Sorry the updates are a few days behind, we have just been too busy sightseeing and chilling out to find time for writing! The rest of our stay in Luxor was brilliant. We saw and did everything we wanted to and more besides - all of the famous temples and tombs in and around the city, a trip to the temple at Dendara, a relaxing sunset felucca ride (not towed by a motor boat this time), ca...

Tried to post from Cairo before we left but had problems with the connection. So here is a brief summary. Had a hectic but fascinating time in the capital, right in at the deep end of Egyptian life - hustle and bustle, traffic, chaos, everyday business, attitudes and behaviour. A bit of culture shock, but not as much as I had perhaps expected, maybe due to having such good people looking after us. We crammed plenty in - the first full day we visited the citadel...