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Nowadays Seattle is a very popular destination, because it hosts different festivals all throughout the year. Car travel will be among the preferred ways of traveling to Seattle. Car travel has various advantages, however some car problems may occur, and you will need auto repair in Seattle. Undoubtedly, in Seattle it is not difficult to find a first-rate auto service.

One of the most typical services while travelling is repair or replacement of windshield. Down the page you will come across a few useful tips on safety precautions for broken windshield before you reach Seattle’s car service center. First of all keep in mind that in many instances broken car windshield may be repaired devoid of replacing of the entire windshield glass. But it is a wrong opinion that windshield’s damaged spot will vanish completely. Also don’t forget that damages on windshield ought to be eliminated at the very first opportunity, since damaged spot may spread, and you will have to pay more for repair or even replace the whole windshield. Read the rest of this entry »

The man on the cover of LP Egypt spotted our LP guide when we visited Karnak Temple and, having established himself as the cover model, proceeded to give us his own special blessing. Needless to say it was accompanied by a request for a tip – but E£2 seemed to leave him a happy man.

Street vendors often quote prices in Pounds without saying whether they are talking about Egyptian Pounds or Pounds Sterling. A favourite scan when you try to buy is for the vendor to say he had been quoting “Nubian Pounds” which are the equivalent of E£20. Of course there is no such thing as a Nubian Pound

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I had my hand tattooed with henna in a Nubian village on the west side of the Nile from Aswan for EP 10, although asking around afterward indicated that a more usual price for foreigners was E 30. The experience was the high point of my trip. The whole thing took about 3 hours. The process involved a group of four to six Nubian women and children, included tea and dancing together.

The henna tatoo process was painless, and they told me it would last about 45 days. There was a little discussion about the design – I approved a pattern sketched by the artist on paper. First the artist put a paste of henna and water into a small plastic bag, cut off the corner, and proceeded to squirt the design onto my hand rather like cake decorating. The paste was allowed to dry in place – this took about 20 minutes, mostly spent sitting in the sun on the front porch of the house. When dry, the paste was flaked off and the hand washed. The oxygen was daubed on to the design. The tattoo at this point was a pale reddish brown design. Then we went into a room in the house where a brazier had been burning with sandalwood chips placed on it to create a lot of smoke. A cassette of Nubian music was played and we all danced while the tattoos cured. The tattoo, when smoked, became a deep black colour.

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