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Inside the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
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I had bought a ticket to enter the Great Pyramid, so climbed the stairs over the massive limestone blocks to the entrance. Not only was I visiting the Pyramids, I was about to enter the biggest of them all!
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Tutankhamun: The Boy King, Egypt
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Looking into the eyes of the death mask, I felt like I was staring back in time through thousands of years. I was looking not just at the mask but at the young man himself.
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Another Day at the Egyptian Museum
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After walking from my Cairo apartment and along the Nile I was back at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities for another look around. Today it was time to climb the stairs onto the first floor, where the Museum’s vast collection of coffins and mummies was stored.
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A day at the Egyptian Museum
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Inside the museum foyer, the floor and walls were covered in dark granite sarcophagi, exquisitely shaped and polished, and engraved with minutely detailed hieroglyphics. I started grinning and giggling like and idiot; this was the stuff of boyhood dreams!
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Storming Montemayor Castle, Spain
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I had Montemayor Castle, Spain, all to myself, and although there was no view to be seen, the swirling cloud and misty rain certainly gave the place an emotive ambience.
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Castillo de San Carlos, Spain
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Whilst waiting for favourable winds for our onward journey, I decided to have a look around the Castillo de San Carlos in Palma, Majorca. I was to discover that the holiday playground of Palma was once a place of piracy, plunder and peril…
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El Djem Archaeological Museum, Tunisia
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The white-walled galleries of the El Djem Archaeological Museum hold an enormous collection of spectacular mosaics from the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
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El Djem Colosseum, Tunisia
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A short walk through the dusty chaos of El Djem, Tunisia, and I was standing outside the 1800 year old Roman Colosseum.
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Hagar Qim Archaeological Park, Malta
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The Hagar Qim Archaeological Park is located on the south coast of Malta, and can easily be reached by bus from Valetta. This is assuming that you can find the correct bus stop, which I failed to do.
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Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta
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Maltese history traces way back beyond the impressive fortresses which have barricaded Valetta from hordes of invaders over the centuries. Apparently the first humans turned up in Malta around 5000 years ago, and they left behind some built evidence of their time on the Tiny Isles.