Egypt invites ... ?

"One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun"

I do not know very much about 'political stunts' but I must say this tourist agreement with Iran seems a little perplexing given it's goals as a tourist boost endeavour alone. For one, I was wondering how, after three decades of no relations with Egypt, will 5 million Iranians 'per annum' suddenly decide to visit Egypt just because Mursi and Nejad tell them to do so! Don't you just wish it were that easy?!

Tourists do not think like that or take tourism to anywhere as an 'easy' decision, but  like anything else for sale, if not harder due to the fact that you have nothing solid in your hand when you buy and only a past memory or experience at the end, a tourist must have or develop an urge to buy, or where there is no will, there is no way ... and, while it can help 'a bit', there hasn't even been a major campaign promoting Egypt in Iran as far as I know. Even if one is started now, it takes years for a would be tourist to build that urge to go to a specific place and for anyone to want, and  afford, to be a tourist to start with. Let alone specially to Egypt, and let alone 5 million of them, per annum!

Too many ifs is always the realm of fantastic stuff!

Then there is that removal of visa requirement for the Maghreb tourists to encourage more of them to come to Egypt as well - and again, I wonder if this is practical even wise to do so given that, of course, while main stream tourists are always welcome, with no visas and the current instability of North Africa, one wonders who else may use the Big 'Opportunity' to come to Egypt for darker purposes! How many have already done so since the visa requirements were removed only a few days ago, or what is there to stop entry for those unwanted 'few'?!

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, please please reconsider; amid all the current tensions, is it wise to remove visa requirements for places where we know trouble making groups exist when this very invitation can be used by them to cause more trouble, even terror in Egypt?!

I think not! Egyptians already have enough trouble on their plates to deal with!

Peace for Egypt


Police search of 500 Palestinians accused of terrorism illegally [entering] the [country]
Egyptian ID printer [lost]
Iran-Egypt ties are about [tourism]
Egypt's troubled IMF or [not]
New uniform for [soldiers]

"When in trouble, watch out for danger"

Troubled thoughts ...

Last time I wrote a post, it was about one part of the Delta, Egypt. Two days or so later, and there was trouble in many other parts of the area with some still going on now. People get injured, even die when there is trouble

A coincidence, right? But that's what I thought when something similar happened last year - and I do get premonitions sometimes but never bad ones, and this is the second time ... or ...

 ... and you think ... and you think ...

... and I don't know what to do ... and I can't deal with it, even though it can all be just in my mind ....

Is it?

You wouldn't know unless you're in 'it', but despite the everyday sunny weather,  that 'spring' does get to you, you know

Or maybe it's me, I worry too much

Sam's: Land's [head]
Down in the [Delta]
Egypt's state of [siege]
Clashes in [Mansoura]
Monday [papers]
Tuesday [papers]
Egypt is paying the price of [neglect]

My scroll .. January 2013

“History, whether bad or good, should not be forgotten.”

January1

[Happy] [New] [Year] [everybody] :-) ... [The] [world] [celebrates] ....


January 2

[PM's][Letter] to [G8] [leaders]*The plant [skyscrapers]*Obama praises [fiscal][cliff][deal]*The seal of [Cambridge]


January 4

Financial boost for young [entrepreneurs]*Guide to next 150 [years]*Have a healthy [heart].[Fasting] [diet].Action for vitamin [D]*Concord bans sale of small water [bottles]*Bacteria before [Oxygen].Counting [insects]


January 5

No to 'associate membership of [EU].[PM]: 'Friends and family' test to rate [NHS]*Pregnancy advice [scaremongering]*Does confidence breed [success]?*Ships of the [desert]


January 6

DC: I want to [lead] the country until [at least][2020]*The future of [food]*Sight for blind [mice]*China's [ice][palaces]*Mount [Vesuvius]*She saves [lions]


January 7

DC:Cheap borrowing a [priority].[Real][choice] on [EU]*The Brits and the Americans in [view]*A plane for [Argentina's][president]*Modern [life]*Light [scenes]


January 8

[No 10]:[The][Coalition][mid] [term] [review]*Euro threat [over]*Parallel [universes].Material [science]*Digital [addiction]*Men's [fashion]


January 9

PM [in house][fashion][speech]*Aircraft [carrier]*Sleeping [lions]*[IMF] wants Egyptian pound to [drop]*Black holes through X-ray [eye]


January 10

US: [Stay] [at] the [heart][of][Europe]*New Ofsted for [NHS]*Test your [morality]*The Big [Bang]*[Pictures]*It's raining in [Cairo]!. Definitely NO vice police in [Egypt].Remembering [Aida]


January 11

PM's [EU] strategy is [working].Britain: Stay and fight for better [EU]*Interactive [Manhattan]*Science [talk]*[Supervolcanoes]*Whatever happened to [Pluto]


January 13

We'd be mad to leave [Europe]*London on [ice]Drilling the [Arctic]*The biggest 'thing' in [space].Spiral in the [sky]*Cairo downtown's demolished [history]*Youuuuu [Plank!:]


January 14

Business must help PM on [Europe]*Tidal [power]. A Russian [volcano]*History of [etiquette]*Private NHS providers could exempt [tax]*Kumbh [Mela][festival]


January 15

PM's [EU] [Big] Speech [Friday].DC ['confident'] of getting [EU] [changes].What if Britain left [EU?]*The secret of [life]*Ice [climbers]* Sky-scrappers and [pants]


January 17

UK leader seeks middle ground on [EU]*[Bioluminescence]*US sees modest [growth]*Vote for more accountable [agencies].Orlando the [cat]*Paperless [NHS]*A huge national [celebration]


January 18

PM's Big [Speech][postponed].PM statement on [Algeria]*Cameron will sell EU speech as plan for [whole][Europe]*Greens for [optimism]*Dog around the [world]


January 19

[Shivering] [Brrritain]*Michelle's [hair]*Graphene [mania]*Counting [people]*Cheese [plants]*Jellyfish [aquarium]


January 22

More people want to [stay] in [Europe]*Obama [inaugurated] for second [term]*Web redifining human [identities]*Hilton [promotion]*Chimps have a sense of [fairness]


January 23

Q&A the Big [Speech]*Healing [economy]*The song that made [history].[Lullabies]*The globe's [temperature]*China [house]*Snow [photos]


January 24

DC rebuffs criticism of EU [speech]*A solar [eruption].WEF in [Davos]* Digital storing [DNA]*Big Cat on [Ice].[MATT]. Fully [furr-nished]


January 25

PM speech to WEF in [Davos] [No 10]*[Graduate [blues]*Polaroid [photography]*Baby Gangnam [style]


January 26

Poor is [fat?].Experimental [care]*To evolve from [wolf].Beetle [guide].A pigeon [syllabus]


January 30

Britain in the [snow]*Stem cell first [aid].Double arm [transplant]*]GP's to contact [consultants] [direct]*[Timbuktu] [manuscripts]*Think Sherlock [Holmes]*Light [show]


January 31

PM visits [Algeria][No 10]*Britain to [work] with [Algeria] on counter [terrorism].PM visits [Libya]* Boundary [injustice]n[more]*[Shrinking] US [economy]*Blue heart of the [planet]

We have differentiation from other communities. Our history is the critical differentiation. We should be out shouting it from the roof tops - we are an historic community. We are a real town