September 13, 2019 The day after we visited Slane Castle and the Tombs of New Grange, we went back to the same area to explore the Tombs at Knowth. These tombs are larger than the ones at New Grange and there are more of them clustered in the same area. We could not enter the …
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Dublin, Ireland – Slane Castle and the New Grange Tumulus
September 12, 2019 After dealing with the police reports and the theft of our wallet, we soldiered on to visit the surrounding Dublin area. One of our primary interests was to visit Slane Castle. Slane Castle was built in the late 1700’s and has remained in the same family for hundreds of years. The current …
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Dublin, Ireland – land of pickpockets.
September 11, 2019 Now to be fair to Dublin, they are not the only country in the world that has pickpockets and thieves. Let’s face it, thieves are everywhere. Unfortunately for us, one of the more skilled ones found us right after we got settled into our hotel. We flew into Dublin from Brussels on …
Brussels, Belgium – heading back to Europe.
September 10, 2019 After our great Egyptian and Jordanian trip, it is time to start heading back west. As we had booked travel to and from our Viking Cruise and post cruise excursion on our own, we had to figure out how to get back to the US after we were done with Jordan. In …
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Amman, Jordan – the Dead Sea and Jerash
September 6 – 9, 2019 After our great day in Petra, it was back on the bus to head out to the Dead Sea. This is another location that we have heard about for all our our lives and were really looking forward to seeing. It did not disappoint, although it was a bit different …
Petra, Jordan – land of Indiana Jones.
September 6 – September 9, 2019. The next morning we are up bright and early and ready to head out to the city of Petra. In case you don’t remember, Petra is where some of the major scenes of the Indiana Jones movie, The Last Crusade, were filmed. The structure in the canyon known as …
Amman, Jordan – Mount Nebo and the Shobot Castle.
September 6 – September 9, 2019 After getting up at 2:30 AM in Cairo to get to the airport on time, we have about a 2 hour flight into Amman, Jordan. This is our post cruise excursion after our Egyptian cruise of the Nile River. Once we cleared customs, we met up with our guide, …
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Cairo, Egypt – back to Cairo to fly out to Jordan.
August 25 – September 5, 2019 After spending the night in Luxor, we get up at O Dark Thirty to get transported to the Luxor Airport for our flight back to Cairo. We make it back to Cairo and check into the Intercontinental Hotel, right next to the Cairo Airport. This was a very nice …
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Edfu, Egypt – the Temple of Horus.
August 25 – September 5, 2019 We are back on the river on the Viking Antares heading north to Edfu, Egypt. Once we dock, we head off to see the Temple of Horus, one of the most preserved temples in Egypt. This time we have a very unusual and fun form of transportation to the …
Kom Ombo, Egypt – the Philae Temple and Nubian Village.
August 25 – September 5, 2019 In the morning we head off on the Nile again, but this time in small private boats. We are going to see an actual Nubian village and private home, then off to the Philae Temple. After docking at the village, we set off to visit an acutal Nubian home. …
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Andrea and Randy Goodell explore Europe, Asia, United States, the Caribbean, and then move to Portugal! 