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 will give you a real “taste of Egypt”.  Highly recommended.

If your reading this post after finding our website and blog by searching on Google or another search engine and are wondering why you should consider taking a Nile Cruise I thought I’d try and put a few points across as to why you would enjoy cruising the Nile. So here goes…

• It’s a great mix of “activity” and “relaxation. Often you hear people saying, “I’m not a beach-type person”, or “I cant’ stand just lying on the beach”, or “I need to be out doing something”. Well a Nile Cruise is really an ideal solution. Why? Because it’s almost a perfect mix of the two. Each morning of your cruise you’ll have the option to leave the ship just after breakfast to take one of the “built-in” excursions to explore and find out more about the various temples, archaeological sites or tombs that, over the week, will help you build up the fascinating picture that is “ancient Egypt”. Most excursions will last for 3 or 4 hours and you’ll return to the ship invigorated and exercised, both mentally and physically. (Dont’ worry you wont’ be climbing hills and striding out for miles!!). Then, after freshening up and having a leisurely lunch, you’ll be up on the sun deck relaxing on a your sun bed or taking a cooling dip in the pool whilst your cruise ship sails leisurely down the Nile. After a relaxing afternoon on board you’ll get ready for dinner in the ship’s restaurant and then enjoy a relaxing evening in the lounge, enjoying one of the evenings of entertainment or sitting out under the stars on the sun deck enjoying a cool drink and chatting to new found friends. the perfect combination of “activity” and “relaxation”. Read the rest of this entry »

I mentioned the other day the Ancient Egypt Exhibition at Liverpool’s World Museum. Well, last night on our local tv news program there was an excellent report from the exhibition that was announced as “from Luxor to Liverpool” which I thought was a great title and one that I’ve used for this post.

The exhibition does look great and they showed a whole section of it in the report. If your close enough to get to Liverpool I would recommend you visit the exhibition as it will give you a real taste of Ancient Egypt and what you’ll be seeing on your Nile Cruise.