EGYPT - GREECE - TURKEY MAR/APRIL 2001

Giza is only a few miles from Cairo and in the warm March of 2001 this traveler was walking with a cane and complaining of knee problems. The dry heat of Egypt was agreeable.
But we did not push our luck and did not descend to Luxor below the Middle Nile. Since then there is no more cane and a lot more travel.



From Cairo, we ventured North by train to Alexandria to the town Alexander The Great ordered built and named after himself but never saw. As it turns out, several months later, the same train caught fire and killed hundreds of passengers. The cause of the fire was reportedly the use by a passenger of a propane stove to boil water for tea.

From Alexandria, we had the pleasure of waiting all night at the airport for an Olympic Airline jet to take us to Athens. We got to witness first hand as the Egyptians physically threatened the poor station agent after the jet never arrived.