Notes from the 'Nog

  Trains heading out of major cities never show that city's best face. This train out of Cairo was no exception, paralleling a rubbish-s...

  The Corniche of Alexandria reminds one of seafront Havana, all those crumbling, weathered facades of past glory.  This must have been a be...

    Jetting in through the dust, which I first take to be a sand storm, until realizing that it's Cairo smog.  Whatever the case, it rob...