Monthly Archives: April 2025

Four days in Luxor

Ancient Egypt, finally! Why’d it take three trips to Egypt to make it to Luxor? And why stay only four days? You can probably see Luxor’s highlights in about eight days (six on the west bank, two on the east … Continue reading

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Snorkeling Utopia Beach Club, Al-Qusair

More Red Sea snorkeling, this time to Utopia Beach Club, about 30km SSE of Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt. Philipp (who we snorkeled with one day at Makadi Bay) had been to Utopia Beach Club before and assured us it … Continue reading

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Olive milling in Antalya

Ferda and I have four olive trees on a small piece of land in Geyikbayırı. Some years we don’t make it up there at all and let the neighbors harvest the olives. Some years we get a group of friends, … Continue reading

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