http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog Nile Cruise News, Articles, Offers and the Nile Cruise Podcast from www.Nile-Cruises-4u.co.uk Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:52:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are thinking of taking one of the Nile Cruise and Cairo trips that we can arrange for you you might be interested to read more about the various Cairo excursions that you can experience. There are a number of one-day, two-day and half-day excursions available and having enjoyed a ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-and-cairo/cairo-excursions/ We've  just added a new Photo gallery for the Nile Vision. This is a new ship to us and comes to us in the same stable as the MS Stephanie and the MS Monica and is an All Inclusive ship. For more details please see iur Nile Cruise gallery page or call ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/nile-vision-nile-cruise-ship-gallery-added/ There is a new Channel Five programme about Ramses II tonight at 8.00pm. The lastest in their series "Secrets Of  Egypt" tonight's programme explores the life of Ramses II and focuses on why he is regarded as ancient Egypt's greatest leader. Last week's programme was about The Valley Of The Kings and tonight's programme ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/ancient-egypt/channel-programme-ramses-ii-tonight/ We've just added a new "Nile Cruise Photo Gallery" page where we can add images of all the Nile Cruise Ships that we feature. The first Nile Cruise ship featured is the excellent Viking Princess but we'll be adding more ships over the next week or so.   I hope that you will ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/nile-cruise-image-gallery/ We are still fixing people up for Nile Cruises departing on the half-term date of 15 February, although seats are getting harder to find. We are able to offer availability at the time of writing  on the 5 Star Beau Soleil Nile Cruise ship which offers full board and a full ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/nile-cruise-halfterm-availability/ Those of you who follow us here on the Nile Cruises 4u blog know that we have just come back from visiting the Royal Viking and the Viking Princess out in Egypt and you will have read how impressed we were with both vessels. We have some great prices for departures ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-offers/viking-princess-749-1st-8th-february/ Whilst we were cruising the Nile in late November we saw a lot of the ships that we sell and recommend. Here's a short video taken from the deck of the Royal Viking as the Jaz Royale Nile Cruise ship departed from Aswan. If you choose 720p from the menu ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-videos/jaz-royale-nile-cruise-ship-2/ On our late November trip we had a great full day Giza and The Pyramids excursion with a wonderful guide called Ahmed,  our own driver and air-conditioned mini-bus.  We visited Memphis, Saqqara and the Great Pyramid at Giza. What we didnt' realise until we visited Saqqara is that the Great Pyramid ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/ancient-egypt/visiting-saqqara/ We visited the Valley Of The Kings and the Valley Of The Queens when we were in Egypt cruising on the Royal Viking in December and took lots of photos using both our new Lumix digital camera and our iPhone.  Both cameras are excellent for different reasons. I bought the  Lumix,  ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruises-photos/valley-queens/ This is an "action" picture taken of the MS Stephanie from the rear of the Royal Viking when we were cruising the Nile in November. Barbara and I were relaxing on the Royal Viking's sun-deck when she woke from her slumbers and noticed that we were passing the Stephanie.  Of course ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/ms-stephanie-nile-cruise-photo/ Over the last 4 weeks Barbara and I have gone from cruising the Nile in brilliant sunshine and warmth to freezing our backsides off on the snowy slopes of the Arinsal ski resort in Andorra.  From the sublime to the ridiculous you might say. We had a great time in both ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise/sunny-egypt-snowy-andorra/ I'm trying to edit a video of our recent Nile Cruise and Cairo visit but things have just been too busy here at Nile Cruises 4u to get a good run at it.  Every time I settle in to start with the editing and joining together of the various video ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-videos/nile-cruise-video-2/ 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, ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruises/happy-year-nile-cruises-4u/ I'm currently editing the video footage taken whilst in Egypt two weeks ago with the purpose of creating a 10 to 15 minute video of our whole trip but in the meantime here's a snippet of our visit to The Sphinx and The Pyramids at Giza. You'll notice that ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-stay-holidays/sphinx-pyramids-2/ 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. http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruises/royal-viking-sundeck-panoramic-photograph/ 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 ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruises/sphinx-pyramids/ We all have our bad days when its' hard to "enjoy life". We've had a day or two like that over the last two days when an admin problem, (not of our making) has led to us having to deal with some issues. But I stumbled across a great video about an ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise/enjoy-life/ We took the opportunity to visit the newly re-fitted and re-furbished Viking Princess while we were cruising on the Royal Viking and took the following photographs to try and give you a feel for the ship. It's the sister ship of the excellent Royal Viking and as ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/1113/ We took the opportunity to visit the Viking Princess Nile cruise ship whilst we were in Luxor and we were really impressed. Over the next few days I'll be posting more photographs that we took as we were looking around and some video footage too. The Viking Princess has the same strict ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/viking-princess-nile-cruise/ [caption id="attachment_1101" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Barbara relaxes on the sun deck of the Royal Viking"][/caption] We've been back over a week now from our Nile Cruise and Cairo trip and we haven't' had a moment to start to organise the terrific amount of video, photos and sound files that we amassed whilst ... http://nile-cruises-4u.co.uk/blog/nile-cruise-ships/e-c/