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Cape Town

After an overnight flight from Cairo to Johannesburg, a connecting flight took us to Cape Town. I’ve heard many wonderful things about Cape Town, and was quite excited to arrive. Our taxi driver from the airport gave us a bit of history and pointed out some of the sights along the way toward downtown. Table […]

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Nate’s Review of Cairo

Food The food in Cairo is terrible. There is this gross stuff that’s different types of meat with rice and fries. The meat is bad. Sights The sights in Cairo are okay. There are the great pyramids of Giza which are not great. They are just big mountains of stone. You can go inside one. […]

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Cairo

At first we hadn’t planned to visit Cairo. The government is building a brand-new museum to host Egypt’s treasures: the “Grand Egyptian Museum,” set to open in 2018. Or 2019. Or early 2020. Or late 2020. Or 2021. Maybe. Locals explained that its being built on Egyptian Time, which is somewhat more vague and flexible […]

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[Rant] Cairo Is Bad

Like really bad. So we stopped in Egypt for one day to see the pyramids and museums . That was pretty cool but the not so cool part about the trip was everywhere which was not the pyramids. So almost all of the city is uncompleted sky scrapers and apartment buildings, and even it they […]

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Athens

We arrived in Athens via our first flights in over 8 weeks. (That is the the biggest gap in me flying in at least 15 months, maybe more. Thank you Europe for having such incredible trains, often free or 1/2 price for kids!) Our Airbnb host arranged a cab at the official rate to pick […]