Sunday, January 23, 2011

Signal Strength

The risks of time travel include disorientation and a sense of loss of what was – just a moment before – a comfortable convenience.

Against these risks and discomforts are now deployed a series of recently acquired strategies, including internet connection to the CBC website with its “Podcasts” of all the CBC radio shows and streaming music.

However great CBC was before . . . the website has made it much moreso. The popular shows: “Q”, The Debaters, Ideas, and news from home can now be heard beside the Nile River in Upper Egypt as can the latest Canadian music from CBC Radio 3.


http://radio3.cbc.ca/


Physical exercise is the process of keeping the time travel machine working – and a good gym is an essential part of the process. On the west bank of the Nile the Colossi have granted their name to a slightly under-capitalized but functional gym.

Inside a young entrepreneur named Abdou has assembled some heavy duty early-industrial-era equipment which is available to locals and expatriates for between $2 and $5 per visit depending upon one’s negotiation skills.

The fountain is somewhat unusual!

With working and well balanced equipment - this gym has lots of "character" and actually works better than many of the 5-Star hotel gyms in the area.

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