Brian en Doortje

Goodbyeee Cairo!!

Leaving Countdown

We stopped at Fridays for a quick drink last night.

We posted some pictures on our flickr page from the lunar eclipse the other night.

Doortje and I went for a swim today, after being in the desert for the last few days and as it's 36 degrees in Cairo today, it sounded l...

We are back in Cairo after what we think will be our last trip into the desert. We took the dogs as it was a short 4 days 1080 Km tr...

Doortje received her memo from the Foreign Ministry today and it's official, we are to be posted back to Holland! The better news is th...

We've had a few days of blowing sand, think maybe it's time for a bath.

We just wanted to let everyone know that all is well at our house. Doortje was home for the weekend and she will be coming home each night ...

Doortje is Home! I am happy. brian

I have a bit of time and wanted to give you a quick update. As you may have seen in the news the situation has quieted down considerably he...

Rosa Navarro, an American who was arrested and detained overnight at the Intelligence HQ, gives the BBC a disturbing account of her detent...

I have a bit of time so I thought I'd try and bring you up to date on what is going with Doortje and I. But as there is so much to tell...

Good trip and great weather. Cloudless skies and zero wind for the entire trip.

Ahmed and Nabil cleaning up. You can just see the square of sand on the bottom of the pool that Ahmed hasn't yet vacuumed up. Sand ever...

A sandstorm, strong winds and lashing rains swept across Egypt on Sunday, closing several ports and disrupting traffic in the Suez Canal, ...

Never mind the rain icons for Saturday and Sunday, it isn't going to happen.

One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people. In this view of Egypt, we s...

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NASA GOES-13 Full Disk view of Earth September 24, 2010 , originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video .

My dad spent 26 years in the Armed Services as part of Strategic Air Command. He's become a bit of a poet in his golden years. Today he ...