Wicked Wanderings
Once more having the best job in the world pays off. Tomorrow I'm jumping on a plane to Skopje, Macedonia, where I will spend 12 days running a conference for the AIESECers from the national teams across Europe. After this I will head to Egypt for 8 days of justice holiday with Tom and Brodie- as mentioned earlier. I fly back into the Netherlands on the 5th of April and fly out to Helsinki the same day. After four days of strategic planning in a cottage somewhere in Finland I will head to the last few days of the Swedish national conference and Swedish transition planning, before getting back to Rotterdam on the 13th of April or so. If I get waylaid by Egyptian spice traders or Scandinavian design students it might be considerably longer.
So stay tuned for stories of adventures that will hopefully involve myrrh, an archduke, several Micronesian islands and a very large hollow wooden horse. If I'm not blogging so regularly for the next little while it's because myrrh is in short supply.
Labels: egypt

5 Comments:
myrr is in VERY short supply right now. Theres frantic Wise Men running around all over Cairo trying to find a place that still has some in stock.
Frankincesnse on the other hand - its a buyers market....
True, Mubarak has been cracking down on the myrrh trade of late. Just chilling through the "The Aromatic Women's History Guide" (http://www.aromastudio.com/womeninat.htm) for myrrh traders, I came across a classic heroine of the business.
Name: Ety
Era: Around 1492 B.C.
Location: Punt (coast of East Africa, probably where Somalia is today)
Title: Queen
Contribution:
Controlled the frankincense and myrrh trade of the ancient world. Sold live myrrh trees to Hatshepsut on her expedition to Punt.
hey Arthur :) c ya in Macedonia n then in Cairo :) You'll have FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN in Egypt I can guarantee you that ;)
Soad
Dude,
Seems like Rickesh, Youssef and I are heading to Cairo at the same time. Will be awesome to see you again :)
Jen x
Dude,
Seems like Rickesh, Youssef and I are heading to Cairo at the same time. Will be awesome to see you again :)
Jen x
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