Egypt

So I went to Egypt recently. (Don't worry this isn't going to be a travel diary of my holiday)

Whilst I was there I quite obviously visited the Giza plateau, the site of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. The experience was well Heartbreaking.

The fact that its very commercialised, the pizza hut, the KFC I was expecting. The fact that everywhere there is someone trying to get you to ride your camel, to buy their small glass pyramids I was expecting. Depressingly even the people climbing up the side of the pyramid and the young boy trying to snatch the camera out of my hand I expected.

The heartbreaking bit was when we ventured off the beaten track a bit (although not far we were in still in the shadow of Cheops' pyramid and we saw the shaft graves, and the small tombs of the nobles. We we're excited and really interested that their were graves as humble as shaft graves this close to the pyramids. Until we saw that they had become little more than middens. To have these graves so close to the pyramids the effort it would have taken to build would probably have meant so much to those people. And they were just filled with rubbish!


There was nobody really in that part, nobody cleaning away the rubbish, or even stopping people putting new stuff in. These graves the eternal resting place of real people, were treated with no care and no respect. Egypt has one of the most interesting histories in the world and it is treated only as a way of getting money. Only the real pretty, shiny, interesting things are treated with respect.

And to make matters worse, this is our fault. it was us who went over there a hundred years ago and created the ethos that, that was what was valuable. And it's tourists from our countries that go over their just to see those things.

And I knew that but I didn't realise until I saw it how much of the archeology was suffering because of it. On the grand scale of things compared to all the tragedies in our world this one really isn't that important.Compared to the conditions some people are living in just down the road from the pyramids, compared to actual human suffering it pales into insignificance.

But still seeing it and understanding why, broke my heart.

my thoughts on shoes

Do you know what really annoys me at the moment?

The fact that all nice shoes appear to have been designed by people who have never seen feet.

Does anybody honestly have a heel shaped like these shoes?
http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/product/B00168RNKK/sr=1-2/qid=1208192719/ref=sr_1_2/202-5990669-7632657?ie=UTF8&node=67549031&m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&keywords=&mnSBrand=core&size=9&rh=&page=

It's not like it's a foot shape that would even look nice if it did actually excist.

Okay rant over I am just annoyed by how long it is taking me to find a pair of nice, smart shoes that don't want to kill me feet.

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