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The Nile Cruise Blues or Pharoah’s Revenge

Pharaoh's RevengeEvery now and then you’ll read about someone suffering whilst on a Nile Cruise from “Pharoahs’ Revenge“.  In other words a gyppy tummy.

In those cases it is usually assumed that its’ been caused by the food on the cruise.  However, in many occasions this has not proven to be the case and it turns out that it can often be put down to germs picked up from things like the Egyptian currency, which can be pretty well-used, or other surfaces touched whilst off the ship.

Of course, people can then touch their lips without thinking and then that’s when Pharoahs’ Revenge can kick in.

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Flip Mino HD Digital Video Cameras


Flip Mino HD Digital Video Camera from Nile Cruises 4u on Vimeo.

At Nile Cruises 4u we’ve just upgraded to the Flip Mino HD Digital Camera and this video shows the set up that we use to create our Nile Cruise Podcast.

I mentioned in an earlier post how brilliant the Flip Digital Video Camera is.  Well a week or two ago I re-sold our original Flip Mino Digital Video camera on Amazon.co.uk for almost the same price as we had bought it for a few months earlier.

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Everything-Everywhere.com

Everything-Everywhere.comI was messing about on Twitter yesterday and saw a “tweet” about Nile Cruises. Being nosey I followed the “tweet” back to Gary Arndt’s website, www.Everything-Everywhere.com which is a true travel website.

By that I mean anyone who introduces their website with these words is a “real” traveller:

“My name is Gary Arndt. In March 2007 I set out to travel around the world. I sold my house, put my possessions in storage and hit the road with my camera, laptop, and clothes. I’ve been to over 50 countries and territories since I’ve started my adventure. I publish a photo from my travels every day as well as the occasional podcast. If you like what I’m doing, please feel free to follow along”.

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Nile Cruises and WOOPRA

WOOPRA.COMWe use the wonderful WOOPRA statistics package here on the Nile Cruises 4u website and find the features are excellent.

If you want to know anything about who is visiting your website, what search term they used to find you, what search engine they used, how many times they have been on your website before, how long they stay, what pages they are looking at, etc, then WOOPRA cannot be beaten.  Continue reading “Nile Cruises and WOOPRA”