BrOOklyn-JOrusalOm

A loong cycling journey from Brooklyn to Jorusalom, where the O’s are bicycle wheels, continued into Egypt, 1st to the climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, on to the pyramids in Giza, Abusir and Saqqara and then up the Nile soourcewards.

  • Walking in Abu Simbel, looking at Lake Nasser in the distance

    And then it happened!:

    The temple of Abu Simbel

    Apparently, from what i read, the grand statues, all 4 of them, represent Ramses II. The faces look different though. So yesterday when i was looking at them, i was wondering who they were.

    On the far left.
    By his feet

  • New house

    There is a painter here in Abu Simbel who makes you look. Can you see the cat?

  • Bye Aswan

  • Bee !!

    Bees feel, dream and are sentient beeings (click this link to read the article!)

    “Can large-scale agriculture and scientific research continue without causing bees to suffer, and is the dominant western culture even capable of accepting that the tiniest of creatures have feelings, too? “

  • Looking down the Nile from the Aswan High Dam, southward towards Aswan and Alexandria
    On the other side of the dam, looking North towards Lake Nasser, or the Nubian Sea as people here like to call it, commemorating the many Nubian village that were submerged by it.

    Behind the Aswan Dam this morning in Aswan it was quite quiet

  • The entrance of the guesthouse: what one sees from the open little kitchen where one can make coffee and tea

A loong cycling journey, from the original BrOOklyn to far away JOrusalOm. Where capital O’s are wheels. Started 26 July 2021; numbers are number of days en rOute; now onward to COP27, and further in Egypt