Travel notes & guides

He reigned nine years and died at nineteen. He is famous because nobody robbed his tomb.

A painted ceiling nobody expects and a king list that rewrote Egyptian chronology.

Three sites, three attempts, and you can see the engineering being worked out in real time.

Enough chronology to make sense of what your guide is telling you.

Data is cheap and easy. There is one restriction that catches people out.

Standard policies cover snorkelling. They frequently do not cover quad bikes or diving.

Two-pin European sockets, 220 volts, and half a dozen other things nobody mentions.

Not dangerous, just persistent. Knowing the shape of them removes the friction entirely.

Twenty kilometres of sheltered channels, warm and shallow, with no swell at all.

Red Sea tanks, a terrarium and a small zoo, two hours, no boat.

The biggest water park on this coast, and the easiest day out with mixed ages.

It is a popular family outing and a genuine ethical trade-off. Both things are true.

Beginner-friendly, oddly moving, and the horses appear to enjoy it more than anyone.

The age band that finds beaches boring and temples worse. Here is what works.

Panorama Reef, Abu Kafan and a bay that is one of the best kite spots in the country.

It happens a few times a month in spring. What the rules are and what to do with the day.

The same trip can vary by 60% in price depending on where you buy it, and by more in quality.

Twenty-two degrees at the pyramids, a shorty wetsuit for snorkelling, and no queues anywhere.

Seven days, four excursions, and three deliberately empty ones.

Not a discount. A phone number that answers, and someone who knows which boat is which.