El Alamein

We are nearing the end of our second six-week term of TESOL teaching and then it will be just one more after Easter before we are once again on the move. The Egyptian climate has been kind to us so far with warm spring weather. We are getting good value for money from our blankets and hot-water bottles.

Before the temperature rises too much we decided to take a trip into the desert to visit El Alamein. We have never visited a war cemetery before; it was a very moving occasion. There are few tourists in Egypt at the moment and we found ourselves alone in a cemetery with thousands of graves. The saddest things were the young ages of the soldiers, that about 5% of the gravestones were engraved to unknown soldiers, and that they were so far from home in a totally alien environment.

Egypt is rich with historic sights and we hope to visit some of the more ancient ones before we leave. P