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Have you noticed how the majority of Egyptians like an afternoon kip ?
I understand it in the heat of the Summer but Winter.
I can't sleep when there is light in the sky, far to busy thinking up daft...
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I go tomorrow night, 3,500Le for root, cutting drilling first stage cap then following the crown. There is also laser treatment, but haven't a clue what that's for.
Seems a good idea – if well planned. But no its another sad joke of an event run by people with no relevant skulls or responsibilities and for god knows what reason except...
Interesting, but I think I'll now pass on this, as over the years I wanted to become a resident to support the
Country I holiday in, Now I can't be bothered far too many hoops to jump through and...
Wine is a way to make good to very good money on average soils using only moderate water, if you use trickle systems. Egypt has made wine for millennia but the wine of the...
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One only has to travel down the Nile to see all the new vineyards under black netting.
The quality has greatly improved since Al Ahram bought in French vinicultulists.
Which can only be a benefit,...
Just when you thought there couldn’t be another government/military led agricultural/land reclamation fiasco (although Sisi’s 1.5 million feddans is waiting in the wings...
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Could you please encapsulate all the above in a 4 lined sentence,
that might entice me to read all that, Professor ?..... 8)
Well...he's been away for a few weeks working on this magnum opus.
An official CAPMAS report announced that 117,000 children under the age of 18 in Egypt are or have been married, even as Egypt has been battling child marriage.
The report, which was released on the...
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During my time on the WB I came across many a strange life. One I remember well, was a young girl, I suspect was around 17 years old, she married this chap around 30 years old, only because her...
Social media influencers and photographers praised this week security conditions in the country during a tour of Egypt’s tourist attractions organized by AmCham Egypt in cooperation with the Tourism...
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Here's today's risk assessment map.
It states parts of Egypt are unsafe, Duh! parts of London are by far unsafer.... 8)
Some weeks ago the idea of rounding up stray dogs and cats and exporting them was mooted....the destination being countries like Korea where they are regularly eaten.
A leading Egyptian MP has...
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Human Rights Committee???? Where did that come from????
Has anyone stayed here within the last couple of years? I've stayed there three times, but it's been eight years since the last, and it needed refurbishment. Has it been done or is it being/going to...
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I love the Isis Island! DH prefers the Movenpick but, although the service, rooms and food there are good, there is something very personal about the Isis Island for me. Maybe it's the view from our...
The Egyptian Tax Authority collected taxes amounting to LE 115.91 billion during the first quarter of the current fiscal year 2018/2019, according to Head of the Authority Emad Samy.
Samy noted...
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I was informed last week zee Germans are now flying 6 flights a week into Luxor, also Hurgharda is direct from
Berlin, 'gotun himmel!. .... 8)
Ps: Hot news President Sisi is due here this week with...
Seems that Egypt wants the Rosetta Stone back for their new Giza Museum.
One doubts many people will actually visit the unfinished museum.
Dr Tarek Tawfik say's The British Museum can have a...
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Whatever next! the Greeks asking for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
At least we have a bargaining chip with those as in: “We will give you back the Elgin Marbles if you agree to take back all the...
Egypt is one of the countries most affected by organ trafficking. Widespread poverty means criminal gangs can easily trick or pressure people into selling their organs. While authorities have passed...
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Flaming disgusting, but poverty leads to many things that people will do to escape. Where has all this poverty emerged from, it cannot be the authorities they the people were led to believe were...
“For travel reason, 10kg of potatoes are for sale to the highest bidder!” “I’ve broken up with my finance because his salary can’t buy us enough potatoes!” “I wish my husband-to-be will give me a...
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All these measures do not seem to be working at the moment. So the local people can expects spiraling prices for a few years yet! The whole Country and everybody in it is corrupt so you can expect...
Whether in Egypt’s working-class areas, villages, or on highways, it is ubiquitous. The tuk-tuk, a motorised rickshaw, has become a main mode of transport in this country of nearly 100 million...
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A classic example of why Egypt struggles.
Tuk tuks require a licence but few localities actualy enforce this requirement. Many areas are a free-for -all for unlicenced drivers.....they just need to...
The Jewish owner was expelled from Egypt in 1957, the hotel was nationalized in 1962, the government ‘paid’ $29,000 (1962 rates) for the hotel and the incompetent EGOTH, the...
Egypt yesterday announced the arrival of the first electric bus from China which will service the Alexandria Corniche Road.
Local media, including the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper, reported that...
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I've heard of the slow boat to China, but **** me, how long did the journey take? :lol: And no doubt it will turn out to be ''wong type of wode.'' that prevents it working.
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