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		<title>Kenya &#8211; JAMBO!</title>
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Bleary from a 3.30am arrival, we were nevertheless happy to arrive in Nairobi and to meet our wonderful safari guide, Nicholas, who loaded us into the Land Cruiser and made the trip up the slopes of Mt. Kenya.
You might notice geographic coordinates on the sign above…Starting now, all the photos are going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo &#8211; a day we did nothing</title>
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We had one more day in Cairo, but considering how difficult it was to get around the city, we lazed around the hotel regrouping for our next stop, Kenya. 
The story so far: Egypt is the fifth country out of ten we’ll be visiting. We have close to 10,000 photos so far and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt &#8211; the museum, the hanging church, and the citadel</title>
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The mosque of Muhammed Ali (not that one) is located in the Citadel somewhere in Cairo. Where I couldn’t tell you because the smog was so bad, it’s impossible to get your bearings.



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Ali’s mosque was built only at the beginning of the 18th century making it a baby next to most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt &#8211; the pyramids at Giza</title>
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They’re just like all the pictures and movies we’ve ever seen and then again they’re not. They look big in pictures, but the actual immensity of them standing front of you is startling. The scale of them was what was most surprising. There are tiny people at the bottom of the pyramid.



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		<title>a close call</title>
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Tom likes to be conservative about leaving plenty of time to get to the airport and it turned out to be a very good thing for us today.
The hotel arranged our ride and ushered us into the van that came, but they sent us to the wrong airport! In a van full of other passengers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>one last day in Istanbul</title>
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What lovelier way to begin our last day in Istanbul than to see a chicken?



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TWO STICKS IN THE GROUND
Istanbul, of course, used to be Constantinople. On the left we have the column Constantine used to mark the founding of the new city. On the right, it’s what remains of the triumphal arch from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul &#8211; whirling dervishes</title>
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Istanbul was the terminus of the Orient Express, of Agatha Christie fame. The final station was here. Inside were an old car, a piece of the dining car, the old uniform and a wild picture of a train crash. I wonder if the engineers were texting when it happened. 



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		<title>Istanbul &#8211; more old stuff</title>
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One of the nice things about staying in one place for a while (we’re here for 10 days) is that it’s possible to relax and not feel the pressure of being sure to see the “big” sights. So we had a lovely visit at the Little Ayasofia which dates back to the 6th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul, take 2</title>
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Returning from Cappadocia, we returned to the same hotel, but on the other side of the building facing the Sea of Marmara, with the Mediterranean beyond.



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Immediately we noticed a change in the sound of the regular calls to prayer. Before we were almost directly under on the Blue Mosque’s minarets so we got blasted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia &#8211; an underground city</title>
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Any visitor to Turkey will recognize these evil eyes, which show up everywhere to ward off wickedness and bad luck. More on this later.









The day started with a morning hike through the Rose Valley, full of what you call “rugged beauty.”









Apricot trees, large and small are coming into bloom.









There are more churches to visit in [...]]]></description>
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