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Nile Cruise Podcast - Episode 4

In this edition of the Podcast I interview my friend Shirley Bell, a travel agent, who has travelled extensively but still enjoyed her Nile Cruise experience enough to take a second cruise earlier this year!!

This episode lasts approximately 18 minutes. I hope you enjoy it.

 

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I received a “Google Alert” today that said:

Nile Cruise Podcast. This is supposed to be a weekly podcast. They have three episodes up, and the last one was posted on Oct 22. It is a good podcast, but hmmm, they seem to be a few weeks behind — unless they have already podfaded. …
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Well, it was nice getting a positive mention (”It is a good podcast”) but a bit worrying to read that we may have “pod-faded”.

However, we are just putting the finishing touches to the next episode (4) which should be ready early next week.

Unfortunately with our Kenya Safari trip I just fell behind slightly.

Apologies for not posting up the next episode of the Nile Cruise Podcast. With preparing to travel to Kenya I have not been able to finsih editing the latest episode. However I hope to put together a combined Nile Cruise and Kenya Safari Podcast for the next show as soon as possible.

Please watch this space!!

Nile Cruise Podcast - Episode 3

In this edition of the Podcast I interview Donna Fleming who has just returned from a fabulous 2 week “Nile Cruise & Stay“.

Donna tells us about her first week aboard the “Ra 2″ and then describes her second week at the 5 Star Deluxe “Oberoi Sahl Hasheesh”.

This episode lasts approximately 38 minutes. I hope you enjoy it.

 

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Nile Cruise Podcast

I have just finished editing the latest Nile Cruise Podcast which I’ll be posting here on the Nile Cruise Blog on Monday.

In this episode I interview Donna Fleming who has just returned from a “Nile Cruise & Stay“.

The interview with Donna lasts just over 30 minutes and in it she describes her cruise on the Ra 2 Nile cruiser and her stay in Hurghada for her second week.

I’m sure you’ll enjoy it so please watch out for it on Monday.

Here’s the latest Nile Cruise Podcast - Episode 2.

This episode includes an interview with Lorraine Flack who has travelled on three Nile cruises. There are also details of some of our latest Nile cruise special offers for November, December and January.

Hope you enjoy it.

Here’s the latest Nile Cruise Podcast - Episode 2.

This episode includes an interview with Lorraine Flack who has travelled on three Nile cruises. There are also details of some of our latest Nile cruise special offers for November, December and January.

Hope you enjoy it.

 

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Nile Cruise Podcast - Now on Apple iTunes Music Store!!

Yep, you can now subscribe to the Nile Cruise Podcast at the ITunes Music Store. That way you can click in the “Subscribe” button and ensure that each new edition is automatically downloaded to your iTunes application and then onto your iPod or MP3 player. You can still listen to the Nile Cruise Podcast on your computer but if you want to listen to the show on your way to work or at any other time you can download it to listen to when you please.

I completed a great interview yesterday for next Mondays’ show and I’m just editing it today. Watch out for the new edition.

Here’s the first edition of the Nile Cruise Podcast. You can play it from here by simply clicking on the PLAY button and it will play through your PC’s speakers or you can go to iTunes and subscribe to the “Nile Cruise Podcast” and that way you can play it via your iTunes player or download it to your iPod or MP3 player.

I enjoy listening to podcasts on my iPod, using earphones or earbuds. That way I can listen to the podcast when I want, either in the car, at the gym or when I waiting for something.

This edition of the Nile Cruise Podcast contains an interview with Eamon Lafferty, a client of ours who travelled recently on the King Tut.

I hope you enjoy this edition of the Podcast and if you have any comments or suggestions of what you would like us to feature on the Podcast please feel free to add your comments to this post or email me at info@nile-cruises-4u.co.uk

If you’d be prepared to be interviewed by us about your own Nile Cruise experiences please email me and I’ll call you to arrange it.

The Nile Cruise Podcast Edition 1

 

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Luxury Nile Cruise…

I mentioned in an earlier post that when I take a holiday that, if I can possibly afford it, I like to stay in as luxurious surroundings as possible. After all most of us only get away once or twice a year.

Well…I just came upon news that a brand new luxury Nile cruise vessel, The Oberoi Zahra, set sail for the first time this week.

Here’s what I read…

“The Oberoi Zahra casts off on October 2nd as the hottest ship under the Egyptian sun. With only 27 spacious, panoramic-view suites, the Zahra is like a boutique hotel sailing down the Nile. Its five decks hold a four-suite Banyan Tree spa, a landscaped pool and the river’s only floating cigar lounge (lest your midnight Cuban craving go unfulfilled). If you’re feeling Pharoah-level-indulgent, spring for a 645-square-foot Grand Suite (the largest on the Nile) and watch Egypt pass by from the Jacuzzi on your private terrace”.

It sounds fabulous and it will be very expensive but you’ll be sailing in the height of luxury and, as you know, you get what you pay for.

I think you’ll agree by looking at some of the photos here that the Oberoi Zahra looks a fabulous vessel.

If you’d like us to arrange a Nile cruise on the Zahra please call Barbara on Freephone 0808 1089 100.

One of the most spectacular destinations we visited on our first Nile cruise was to The Valley Of The Kings at Luxor. It truly is a breathtaking sight when you arrive at the site.

Once again I would recommend you visit the Tour Egypt website where you will be able to read a really informative article about The Valley of The Kings, its’ history and what to expect when you get there.

Usually on the King Tut and El Fostate cruises The Valley of the Kings is a featured trip towards the end of the week but please call us on our Freephone number 0808 1089 100 to check if the excursion is included on the Nile cruise you may choose to book.

To give you a flavour of the Tour Egypt article here’s a snippet:

The Egyptian belief that “To speak the name of the dead is to make him live again” is certainly carried out in the building of the tombs. The king’s formal names and titles are inscribed in his tomb along with his images and statues. Beginning with the 18th Dynasty and ending with the 20th, the kings abandoned the Memphis area and built their tombs in Thebes. Also abandoned were the pyramid style tombs. Most of the tombs were cut into the limestone following a similar pattern: three corridors, an antechamber and a sunken sarcophagus chamber. These catacombs were harder to rob and were more easily concealed. Construction usually lasted six years, beginning with the new reign. The text in the tombs are from the Book of the Dead, the Book of the Gates and the Book of the Underworld. See also a history and overview of the Valley of the Kings.
Click here to read the complete article.