I’ve been organising my photographs on this rather dull November morning. Up until the new millenium my collection was somewhat limited: indeed for so many years there was just a handful of snapshots to bear witness to what I was up to. How I wish, for example, I had so many more pictures of my school and university days! When I purchased my first digital camera, a Nikon, as all my cameras have been since, my photographic collection expanded exponentially and in just a couple of months I’d taken more pictures than in all previous years put together.

In 2002 Sandra and I joined a small group for an adventure holiday in Egypt. Among other delights, this involved a stay in Cairo, an exploration of the Pyramids, a railway journey to Aswan, a felucca sail up the Nile to Luxor and of course, the statutory camel-ride down to the Valley of the Kings. Below I select some pictures of my wife in some mythical sites of the land of the Pharaohs. It was a truly fabulous holiday and it’s lovely to rediscover these photos of a pre-covid, a pre-brexit and a pre-pensioner time!