Off to the Valley of The Kings. Had a wake up call after a lovely night’s sleep with the most comfortable pillows!

Quick breakfast and we’re off. It’s 6.15 (aagh!) but it’s bright and there is still a lot of activity on the roads as we drive through Luxor.

We’ve been to the Valley of the Kings before but I wanted to go back and use the Pano iPhone app to get a panoramic photo. Hopefully you’ll see the results of my efforts later.

For anyone interested in drinks prices I’ll keep you up to date as I drink them. This effort on my behalf is purely in the name of research as I don’t like alcholol. (Well not very much).

Last night with dinner we has a nice bottle of White wine which cost about £12 and I later had a beer for about £2.50 whilst Barbara had a further glass of White wine which cost about £2.50 too. I would say drinks are about the same as pub prices.

Right, that’s the end of the “educational” portion of this post.

Now I’m going to sit back and have 40 winks before we get to our destination.

Wink, wink, wink, wink, wink…..zzzzz…

Do you like this old black and white photograph?

The New York Museum have a wonderful archive of old black and white photographs of Egypt which you can download and use as they are copywrite free.

You can visit the archive by clicking on the link NYPL.

There are lots of photos of Egypt that look like they were taken in the 20’s and 30’s and are a very interesting look at what Egypt must have looked like.

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You may have read about the recent controversy about the launch of Google’s Street View. A lot of people have complained about the “privacy” implications of Google publishing photo’s take on the streets of the UK without the permission of people who were in the street at the time the photos that make up Street View were taken.

There were also photos of drunken people throwing up which dont’ exactly look good, however the concept of being able to zoom in on Google Maps to “Street View” is brilliant for travellers and travel agents alike.

I have created a (pretty basic) video to show you how you can use Google Street View to take a look at some of the places that you will visit on your Nile Cruise. I have just scratched the surface of what you can do with Street View but hopefully it will give you some ideas that you can build on. Hope you find it useful.

Use Google Maps Street View To Research Your Nile Cruise from Nile Cruises 4u on Vimeo.

How To Use Google Maps Street View To Research Your Nile Cruise

I was messing about on Twitter yesterday and saw a “tweet” about Nile Cruises. Being nosey I followed the “tweet” back to Gary Arndt’s website, www.Everything-Everywhere.com which is a true travel website.

By that I mean anyone who introduces their website with these words is a “real” traveller:

“My name is Gary Arndt. In March 2007 I set out to travel around the world. I sold my house, put my possessions in storage and hit the road with my camera, laptop, and clothes. I’ve been to over 50 countries and territories since I’ve started my adventure. I publish a photo from my travels every day as well as the occasional podcast. If you like what I’m doing, please feel free to follow along”.

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Following on to my reference about the Egyptian Exhibition at Liverpool’s Museum Of The World I came across this really unique “online” interactive “Life In Ancient Egypt” adventure.

Although it’s probably aimed predominantly at children it gives you a great feeling for how life was for ordinary Egyptians.  Great fun and a wonderful resource and a little taster of some of what you’ll see when your cruising the Nile.

Thanks to Liverpool Museums for the link.