After a busy and sometimes weird few weeks, its time to get my blogging on the road again.
We have had a good few weeks with regard to business. Not anywhere near back to normal, but its looking good and we are eating at least! Luxor is starting to come back to life, slowly but surely.
We have also had some wonderful visitors on the felucca and some great days with them on the River Nile, here in Luxor.
Fishing has recently been the order of the day and Saeed is now the very proud owner of a "real quality" fishing rod and tackle. But he never got a chance to play with it before a guest beat him to it! We had a full day out on Saturday, moored up at Bird Island while the crew got on with finishing off the cooking (meat tagine with all the trimmings, yummy). Obviously there is a small walk around we can do while waiting to eat, but the island is small and the fish were swimming around the boat. So out came the rod and tackle! In half an hour or so one of the men must have caught at least 12-15 small fish! He was trying to get some of the bigger ones that were close by, but they were having none of it and stayed well away from the bait. Fortunately Saeed was able to have a quick fishing session while we ate the gorgeous food they had prepared.
This is the one that got away!
So a huge thank you to Terry!! One of our amazing guests who gave the rod as a gift following a couple of days out fishing with Saeed. It will be well used and next time you are all here, the fish dinner is on us!
So I guess we can now offer fishing days as an extra.
I am sorry I do not have photos....... I really should take my camera out with me every time!! I will do so in the future!
In the meantime........ what is it about mosquitos that means they only attack me?? Its the middle of the day, I am inside with the door closed and there is just one of them buzzing me!!
And! My neighbours are building, maybe for the family or maybe to rent or sell.
Fortunately my view will not be obscured as the work is just to the left of me....
We have had a good few weeks with regard to business. Not anywhere near back to normal, but its looking good and we are eating at least! Luxor is starting to come back to life, slowly but surely.
We have also had some wonderful visitors on the felucca and some great days with them on the River Nile, here in Luxor.
Fishing has recently been the order of the day and Saeed is now the very proud owner of a "real quality" fishing rod and tackle. But he never got a chance to play with it before a guest beat him to it! We had a full day out on Saturday, moored up at Bird Island while the crew got on with finishing off the cooking (meat tagine with all the trimmings, yummy). Obviously there is a small walk around we can do while waiting to eat, but the island is small and the fish were swimming around the boat. So out came the rod and tackle! In half an hour or so one of the men must have caught at least 12-15 small fish! He was trying to get some of the bigger ones that were close by, but they were having none of it and stayed well away from the bait. Fortunately Saeed was able to have a quick fishing session while we ate the gorgeous food they had prepared.
So a huge thank you to Terry!! One of our amazing guests who gave the rod as a gift following a couple of days out fishing with Saeed. It will be well used and next time you are all here, the fish dinner is on us!
So I guess we can now offer fishing days as an extra.
I am sorry I do not have photos....... I really should take my camera out with me every time!! I will do so in the future!
In the meantime........ what is it about mosquitos that means they only attack me?? Its the middle of the day, I am inside with the door closed and there is just one of them buzzing me!!
And! My neighbours are building, maybe for the family or maybe to rent or sell. Fortunately my view will not be obscured as the work is just to the left of me....
Lol! I thought I was the only only that the mozzies like to nibble on. Nice to hear some positivity coming out of Luxor and things are picking up albeit slowly.
ReplyDeleteLol you can share them with me soon! Alf mabruk on the new addition!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous stuff......glad to see you back on The Nile as you should be. (and glad to see you back blogging too.) xxxx
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