Finally have gotten around to sharing my trip photos. See many posts under this. Mark and I went to Egypt last month (April 2004) for 2 weeks and it was really a great trip. This is just a selection as I don’t have all day to put them on here!
In fact I now have to go clean some walls to finally apply some tiles to the separate toilet, which will coordinate to the bathroom (these are in different rooms upstairs in this house, no idea why). Mark has spent all day removing the old pink (ugh!) toilet and moving a drain pipe. Like hours it has taken. We can’t tile the bathroom itself until next week as we have to wait for a plasterer to do some work, and he’s coming Tuesday. Fun times.
I have dozens of photos, but here is a selection. 
Nice hat lady. It was REALLY hot and sunny though.
Karnak Temple, near Luxor. Huge incredible hall of 134 columns like these. Featured in James Bond and Agatha Christie movies.
Mark looking like a tourist at Karnak Temple
I love this sign in bad English translated from Arabic at the Valley of the Kings: ‘Look at the glory of the ancient’
Our Nile cruise ship, which we were on for 1 week.
Contrast between the Nile and its green banks, and the desert behind is amazing. Egypt never goes hungry thanks to this irrigation though.
View of Philae Temple (on an island) from a small boat
Abu Simbel, amazing temple built into rock by Ramses II. We were 45 kms from the Sudan, in the most southernly part of Egypt.
