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‘Take away this ball and chain…’
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Mike Ness of Social Distortion wrote ‘Ball and Chain’ in 1987, and has described the song as a ‘hard luck story’. For Ness, his ‘ball and chain’ was addition; mine is living in the past.
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Under the Red Sea, Egypt
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When you’re middle-aged, and you experience something that blows your mind kid-style, it’s something to celebrate. I did something last week that left me yelling with pure joy and wonder. I went scuba diving under the Red Sea.
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Siwa Oasis, Egypt
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Although I had spent over a month in Egypt, and had visited a few places on the arid edge of the Nile Valley, I hadn’t gone deep into the desert. Having spent many years living in Central Australia, I was keen to see the country’s dry interior.
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Aswan, Egypt
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Despite Aswan, Egypt, having some amazing sites to explore, I can’t say I had a great time.
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Treasures of Luxor, Egypt
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Exploring Luxor today, with its innumerable (and incredibly well preserved) ancient sites all clustered together, is an unforgettable experience.
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Tutankhamun: The Boy King, Egypt
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British Archaeologist Howard Carter had been working in Egypt for 31 dry and dusty years before he made arguably the world’s most sensational archaeological discovery.
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In the Valley of the Kings, Egypt
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It was already well on the way to the forecast high of 42 degrees in Luxor when I left my accommodation and walked towards town. I was heading to the Valley of the Kings, one of Egypt’s most astounding ancient sites.
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Searching for the Blockhouse, Part II, Egypt
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I had spent an enjoyable, but ultimately disappointing, couple of days searching the area west of El Alamein for the Blockhouse. I was still keen to find this surviving landmark from the final battle at El Alamein, but I was running out of ideas.
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Searching for the Blockhouse, Part I, Egypt
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Somewhere along the railway line, west of El Alamein, Egypt, stands an unremarkable, low concrete building. It was the scene of an extraordinary occurrence in 1942, when compassion and humanity prevailed over war’s chaos and carnage.
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El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt
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Australian families and towns will be forever connected to a dusty, sunburnt place far away on the other side of the world.