28 January 2011 Staying in the Sara Hotel, Aswan, Egypt This morning at 2h30 Arina got woken in order to catch a bus to Abu Simbel to see it in day time and as it is 300km away from Aswan, the vehicles go very early before sunrise to make it there at shortly after sunrise. I went into town to find out why the internet SIM card I bought yesterday was not working when told that the Egyptian government has cut off the internet. Mmm, not very re-assuring. Swi...

Good day everyone Thank you for all the emails and blog posts of caring. Thanks to Adrie and Anet as well for posting the update and appreciate all your assistance. In the past we said: what did we do before telephones? Now we have seen what happens when the internet is down. We are in good health and in no danger. As soon as the situation turned for the worse, we headed to the coast as we have contacts in Cairo who could tell us where the safest place was. Here...