01 Uniworld’s elegant SS Sphinx is perfect for cruising the Nile
“Dip your hand in the river Nile and one day you will come back,” is an old Egyptian saying that I hope rings true, as my love affair with Egypt, its welcoming characters and breathtaking treasures, deepens.
I am sitting with my new friend Ahmed, a restaurateur, dressed in a traditional galabeya, a flowing, long-sleeved robe, sipping strong mint tea at his restaurant in Cairo’s busy Khan el-Khalili bazaar.
“This is a country that gets under your skin and when you discover its magic, you realise there is no other place like it in the world; it’s the mother of civilisation on one hand that has a pretty cool edge to it – the past and the present collide here in the nicest way and
