This is the Foreign Office’s latest travel advice for popular holiday destinations
Going on a summer holiday is one of the best British traditions.Travelling to somewhere hot to lounge around in the sun for a couple of weeks, it’s basically perfection.Have you… Read more…
Had a delicious time spending two days in Lovina, on Bali's north shore. Unlike the southern beaches here, the water is calm, lake-like. You can rent snorkeling or diving equipment,… Read more…
AFANDINA: a breath of fresh air – by Robert Bauval

Spirit Quest Tours is honored to have been the first American company to offer this unique and exclusive experience as a part of "Quest for the Truth IV" in May of 2008.
Join us aboard the Afandina once again, by special arrangement! Cl... Read more…
Further Thoughts on The End of the World
I hadn’t thought the world would end, not really, but the recent school massacre in Newtown back home made me wonder if it might have gone mad. Now I suddenly felt so lucky to be alive, so happy to be in this crazy, wonderful city where I had drunk tea in Tahrir Square not two weeks earlier, so glad to be graced with this intrepid band of fearless travelers who saw what the news said and came to Egypt anyway. Read more…
Sweating it out: Experiencing the Temezcal
This ritual is a rebirthing of sorts, he explains. As the others have done before me, I touch my forehead to the sparse grass at the mouth of the temezcal. “All my relations,” I intone properly, while connecting to Mother Earth, Father Sky, my ancestors, my family, my friends — in keeping with Read more…