Istanbul for Eid: The Bosphorous and Golden Horn

We all went on a cruise up the Golden Horn and into the Bosphorous towards the Black Sea, under the bridge which joins Europe and Asia.

Istanbul for Eid: Hagia Sofia

The Hagia Sofia was the largest enclosed space for well over 1000yrs, originally a church, then a mosque, and now a museum it is a magnificent space, with some beautiful 12C mosaics.....

Istanbul for Eid: The Blue Mosque

The Blue Mosque is one of the most beautiful building in the world.....we were woken each morning at 5am by the hoarse call to prayer...

Istanbul for Eid: Night one

We arrived after dark, got to the hotel and had a quick wander around. we were only a short walk from the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sofia in Sultanahmet both pretty spectacular at night....

Random images from our Sakkara visit

An unchanging scene for millenia

Go donkey, go

Cut palm branches

Beautiful date palms

Oncoming camel train

Red Pyramid, Darshur

A drunks view of the red pyramid with nice clouds....

The Bent and Black pyramids from the Darshur

The Bent pyramid from the edge of the Red one

Donkey slipstream

He makes one hellava paella

Dinner for Eid...not long now....

The Step Pyramid sad doggie

Drunks view of the Sakkara pyramid

Sakarra

The posing TeTe Pyramid doggie

The Step Pyramid

Hijab mulcher rental

Winners of the Sakkara donkey Derby

Typical roadside scene, plus van carrying foam....

Popped down the shop for some milk....

Carrot delivery

Meat delivery

HSE advisors look away now, building a new mosque

Updates News Snippets....

All has got very busy in the last couple of weeks and so the first casualty of this is the blog. Heres 10 of the latest random snippets and happenings.

1. Its getting cold. 14oC last night - break out the thermals.

2. Young T is off to Lapland for his school trip - in Feb, 20hrs of semi darkness and -10oC, sound like fun.

3. Second Eid is coming up, and I managed to get out of Emergency Duty coordinator. So now looking for somewhere to take everyone.

4. The golden oldies arrive on Thursday - watch out Cairo. This will be interesting.

5. Ps golf swing has been rebuilt.

6. Mrs T is listening to the Scripts new album, that P sourced for her.

7. Roads continue to be crazy - saw a mini under a JCB today - nasty.

8. Went to the Tequila Dart league night, had a shot of tequila between games, both of us suffered in the morning!

9. Mrs T making the most of the Slingbox (allows us to watch our TV in the UK here in Cairo), although watching Strictly come dancing live is not really what the WWW was invented for!

10. Watched the A Team film the other night (I brought it back from Syria). Smashing. Mrs T would rather watch a period drama but frankly Im a sucker for a few explosions and car chases and lame jokes.

More news later. I am starting to take the camera in on the trip to work to grab some random images.