Alexandria Travel Blogs

Alexandria has been named 'the greatest historical city with the least to show'. Of all its rich history there is only one thing actually still left standing, which was the first place I visited today: Pompey's Pillar. Yes, a pillar. One whole pillar. This city was founded by Alexander the Great, i…

It's 7.20am, day two of 'The Atef Plan'.  I am sat at Ramses train station next to Nadir, one of the Boss Man's many minions who has escorted me the rediculously short distance here by taxi and now awaits the arrival of my train to show me safely to me carriage and seat.  Language barrier…

  During the summer of 2008 I signed on to work on an old steam ship, a tramp steamer. Although it was a US flagged ship, the company had a contract with the United Nations to haul grain and cooking oil to needy people in the Middle East and Africa. The shipping company also hauled military ca…

They're funny, y'know? In the past few days, I've met the oddest assortment of characters on the streets of Alexandria. The first was an 87 year old Hungarian communist. We met at Midan Tahrir, in front of the French embassy. The conversation went thus: Communist: Hallo! Welcome to Alexandria! Meg:…

When i and my friend - Ana - had decided to visit Egypt we didn't know that Ehab (Maher) would accompany us during our whole trip but i don't know what we would have done there without him...This trip wasn't just a dream coming true but also the beginning of an amazing and a hopefully everlasting friendship. Shukran Ehab for these unforgetable 9 days - you're an incredibly nice person! God bless Travbuddy!!!!! :-))))

Welcome everybody to my homecity Alexandria:)There're more than 40 Alexandrias all over the world but mine is the original.It's the Alexandria which was built by Alexander the great;)

39 months, Europe, Asia the Middle East and Africa. Whale Sharks, Manta Rays, Pandas, Elephants, Bears, Komodo Dragons, Turtles, Tigers, Bulls. Pyramids, Petra, Ephesus, Kremlin, Great Wall, Angkor, Bagan, Persepolis, Trans Siberian railway and fantastic travbuddys! Stolen bags, crowbar threats, 1 landmine explosion, bank robbery, 2 motorbike crashes, 2 bus crashes, pancreatis, erosion of the liver and kidneys, BUT im still here and telling my tale! Check out the blog and leave a smile/comment

Alexandria my hometown and the Mediterranean's pearl

  We had traveled the Nile too far to not see its mouth. The five of us rode the two and a half hour train for its final 135 miles to Alexandria. The delta began to fan out just north of Cairo and our rail-line followed the westerly Rosetta Branch. Somewhere in the lush greenery we lost the m…

Alexandria, one of the prettiest sites Mr. The Great founded and the only place in Egypt where it snows, is located on the Mediterranean and is a plethora of Greco-Roman goodies.  From crawling through the labyrinth of catacombs under the city insearch of my buddy Alex's lost soma (tomb), to a…

I was at work and i took some pics

On our last full day in the Middle East, we decided to head north to Alexandria.  Start on the Mediterranean, end on the Mediterranean.  So, we went back to the train station and caught one of the hourly trains to Alexandria.  It's a large, beautiful seaside down, and the weather was…

    We took a coach up to Alexandria. The drive was really interesting. Despite times when it would be desert for miles and miles, there were small villages and interesting plants as well. It's so different when driving through suburbia (at least in Santa Cruz), because I feel that h…

Alexandria, Egypt

I beleived that choosing who u will travel with is more important than where are u going. i really never met nice girls like them..they are very nice, very kind,very lovley, and very every nice word u can say about a girl. Thank you KITTI..thank u TUNDE for that unforgatable trip i had with u...and i m really WISH TO KNOW U FOREVER:)))u r really nice...and good friends to me:)) Szeretlek Barátaim. és Elvét Ön Tehát Sok. Én Kipróbálás az én -m legjobb jönni -hoz ön márciusban.