That was one of my most memorable holidays Mike, I am jealous.
We did Cairo, a Nile cruise, then over to Jerusalem, and on up to Istanbul. What a fascinating part of the world. We did also want to get over to Jordan to see Petra, but the border crossings between Israel and Jordan were very time consuming back then.
We flew El Al Israeli airlines out of Egypt. The plane was parked well away from the airport terminal, in a dark corner. As we were bussed out, Israeli scurity, completely armed with sub machine guns, deployed from the Boeing 757, and took up position around the steps as we went up. All jolly exciting I thought.
We had originally planned to take a bus across the Sinai, but one never has enough vacation time it seems.
November is a great time to be there too, so we'll want to see loads of pics.
Cheers,
Mike