We celebrated Elaine’s 79th birthday while in Egypt, where I was speaking at a couple of events – half a century after I worked in Cairo and Ismailia back in 1975.
In many ways, that long-ago trip was the start of my career proper, what with my ignoring a non-disclosure agreement signed on our behalf by John Roberts of TEST and writing a piece on the Lake Manzala aspects of our work for New Scientist.
Not surprisingly, Egypt has changed hugely since I was last there – and yet, at the same, some things seemed eternal.
I will tell the story of this latest trip in captions to the photos in three posts, one on a visit to the much-heralded Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the second on things like speaking at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Egyptian Centre for Economic Studies (ECES), and the third on our visit to Alexandria – to see the extraordinary Bibliotecha Alexandrina.
But now to the first set of images:
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