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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I have been trying to think of a way to upload the video we hope to take from the Flip camera onto some sort of portable device so that when the camera is full we don’t grind to a halt.

I’ve done a lot of searching on the web but haven’t seen any solution so we are planning to have to lug my laptop around.

But Barbara has come up with a suggestion that I think might work. She has suggested we buy a notebook pc and take that with us instead. Notebook are smaller and lighter than laptops and we could upload the footage to that to clear the Flip each night.

So I’ll be researching the best notebook I can get forvthe best price. If anyone has any recommendations I would be grateful for any advice at all.

A lot of our enquiries come from people who want to take a Nile Cruise AND see the Pyramids and The Sphinx but dont’ have enough time to complete a 1 week Nile Cruise and then do the 3 day Cairo add-on. Read the rest of this entry »