Some New Photos
Some New Photos It’s amazing to think that the Sunrise Lodge in Dahab has been open for three months now! It’s also amazing to think that our stunning looking website (http://www.sunrisedahab.com)...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Happy New Year! Whooooooooooooooooooooooosh! What was that? That was 2010… and what an unbelievable year it was for Sunrise Lodge. We got the keys to the place, as it were, in February and started...
View ArticleDahab Protests, part III (a.k.a. Cor, Things Change Fast)
Well, the main theme of the last thirteen days is unpredictability. You remember that ligature I was talking about, cutting off the blood supply to Dahab? It just got loosened. The petrol is now...
View ArticleDahab Protests, part IV (a.k.a. life as normal)
It’s hard to believe that it’s already two weeks since January 25th, the first day that the protestors took the streets in Cairo. We had slightly interrupted access to Facebook, and Twitter entered...
View ArticleDahab Protests pt V (a.k.a. A New Egypt … or… there shall be cake!)
After shouting my mouth off for a few days straight about the effects of the unrest in Cairo and other major cities in Egypt, I’ve been silent for a good long while. Not even a “Yahoooooooo!” after...
View ArticleDahab Community Market goes live!
Yesterday saw Dahab’s community market come to life, a great, social, vibrant life. It was held at the Lazy Camel cafe, the beach part of Sheikh Salem house and it was just an absolutely gorgeous...
View ArticleMy own Top 10: Things to do in Dahab
So I spend a fair amount of time on Twitter (follow us here) and I follow an awful lot (I should say a wonderful lot, really) of “Travel Tweeps” – mainly travel bloggers who backpack their way round...
View ArticleThe 3 Reasons Why I’ve Been Up Mount Sinai 19 times
I used to get paid to walk up Mount Sinai in the middle of the night to watch the sun rise up over the mountains, or at any rate it was part of my job as a tourleader here in Egypt, and that explains...
View ArticleHow on earth did I end up in Egypt?
I love having chats with customers at Sunrise Lodge, but there’s one question that I get asked so routinely, the answer now must sound scripted. I’m asked virtually daily how on earth I’ve come to live...
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