This is our last blog post for 2009 so we would like to take the opportunity to wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year from Barbara and myself and Nile Cruises 4u.

We have just returned from a great family Christmas skiing holiday in Andorra where our eldest daughter, Sophie, became engaged to her boyfriend Chris.  It was, by all accounts, a very romantic moment with him going down on one knee at the top of the slopes and proposing.
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Another in our panoramic photograph series.  Again taken with my iPhone and Pano.   Its’ a photograph of Barbara relaxing on the sundeck of the Royal Viking Nile cruise ship.

To see the full-size verion click here.

I used my iPhone’s “Pano” photo application when I was in Egypt two weeks ago to make a series of panoramic landscapes which I’m going to load up onto a seperate page here on the blog.

This first one is a taster and it’s one that shows The Sphinx and The Great Pyramid at Giza. I took it by taking 4 or 5 separate shots and then the “Pano” application threads them together to give you the wide panoramic photograph.

You can see the full-size image by clicking here.

We’re home from our trip to Cairo and Luxor and have a whole stack of photographs, video and audio clips to add to the Nile Cruises 4u website and here on the Blog.

We had such a great time and learnt so much more about our favourite destination.

Apart from our excellent 4 nights Nile Cruise on the superb Royal Viking Nile Cruise ship we also flew up to Cairo and spent 3 fabulous days visiting the Pyramids at Giza, Memphis and Saqqara, the excellent hotels in the shadow of the Pyramids as well as enjoying some of the excursions available in Cairo such as the atmospheric Sound & Light Show at the Pyramids.

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We are in Cairo and have spent the day visiting Memphis, Sacchara and the Pyramids in Giza.

We met our guide, Ahmed, at 7.30 (yep…7.30am) at our hotel, the Meridien Pyramids and headed off to spend the day visiting Memphis, the step Pyramid at Sacchara Read the rest of this entry »