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Post by lola on Apr 14, 2010 13:49:00 GMT
Voyages Jules Verne has 7 day Nile cruise, max 30 passengers, from £529, according to your link, spindrift. What language predominates on such a cruise, or any particular nationality? Were your fellow passengers old and boring or something?
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Post by spindrift on Apr 14, 2010 16:00:53 GMT
All the passengers were English and the Egyptian crew spoke English. Our fellow passengers were pleasant enough really although the 2 other couples at our table pointedly ignored us for a week . We were far too glamorous for their liking. the women, it's always the women!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2010 16:35:43 GMT
Cruise prices are extremely variable. A lot of the cruises are 75% cheaper in July and August than in the winter months.
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Post by lola on Apr 14, 2010 16:42:57 GMT
Men DO tend to be nicer to glamorous women, for some reason.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 14, 2010 16:53:55 GMT
Lola, I wonder why that is.
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Post by lola on Apr 14, 2010 18:50:48 GMT
Inexplicable, really.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2010 19:14:44 GMT
Hmmm... perhaps I am not really a man. I tend to snub glamorous women, since I prefer them as natural as possible.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 14, 2010 19:40:42 GMT
Frequently glamorous women are unfortunately quite lonely. They yearn to be seen for their true character and secretly wish to cast off the yolk of beauty and glamour thrust upon them by a superficial society.
Or so Sophia Loren told me last week.
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Post by lola on Apr 14, 2010 20:28:47 GMT
Plus people's wives glare at you during dinner.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 14, 2010 20:32:14 GMT
I am generally repelled by glamorous people- knowing full well how shallow I am being by doing so. I guess I'm just suspicious of the motivations of people willing to invest so much effort in appearances. This admitted prejudice has however been reinforced through life experience to a considerable degree, although I've met wonderfully interesting, well rounded and glamorous people as well. I think the difference is the ones I like tend to be capable of good natured self deprecation and don't take themselves quite as seriously. </thread highjack>
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Post by lola on Apr 14, 2010 21:37:31 GMT
You all keep dissing the glamorous and I'll spin around in my very expensive footwear and flounce off.
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Post by gertie on Apr 14, 2010 21:41:45 GMT
Thank you, Mark and Spinny for the information about the cruises. I will truely look into that. I"ve been waiting to travel to Egypt when I can perhaps afford a dehabeya trip after googling and finding the listings quite expensive. I think it depends on your definition of glamorous for me. For example there is Sophia Loren, who I have always thought is something of a natural beauty. Some women are just naturally beautiful and everything they touch turns to glamor. These women do not bother me so much, it is not as though they ordained things. Then there are these women who are crazy into appearances, that I dislike. As a scholarship student at the most expensive private school in this part of the country, I saw a LOT of that. I had Mommas tell me all sorts of hints for how to hunt myself a rich man, it is as easy to love a rich man as a poor man being their comment if I said that seemed mercenary. In many ways, it was quite a hoot, though. Sorry, fumobici, you can't distract us from an interesting thread hijack
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2010 21:41:58 GMT
capable of good natured self deprecation and don't take themselves quite as seriously. </thread highjack> That with beauty is a killer combination.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 14, 2010 22:47:17 GMT
I beg to differ that one has to spend a lot of time and money to look glamorous. I am a natural for looking so, I don't have the wherewithal to lavish care and potions on myself but I have a good eye for clothes, my hair is always well cut , I have a cheerful disposition , I respect people unless I have a reason to not respect them...I wear nice but simple real jewellery, I carry a smart bag (not necessarily expensive) ...and I look nice. I do not look cheap. I carry myself well. This is what real glamour is. I'm not even mentioning my steady honest gaze and innate intelligence. My girlfriend on the cruise was the same...hence we were pariahs. As I said - a laugh a minute for us.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2010 4:07:33 GMT
You all keep dissing the glamorous and I'll spin around in my very expensive footwear and flounce off. Careful, honey ~~ with those racehorse ankles in your classy high heels, you could hurt yourself.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2010 9:54:38 GMT
They yearn to be seen for their true character and secretly wish to cast off the yolk of beauty and glamour thrust upon them by a superficial society. You have egg on your face for this comment, OnlyMark
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Post by onlymark on Apr 15, 2010 10:03:58 GMT
Yeah, right. I really meant it seriously.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 15, 2010 10:18:33 GMT
Mark could be right....he is wise beyond his years I hadn't thought of it this way.
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Post by bjd on Apr 15, 2010 11:13:46 GMT
Okay, so it's me who is a grammar/spelling Nazi. I meant the misspelling of yoke.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 13:12:30 GMT
Eggsactly what I was thinking, bjd.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2010 14:36:05 GMT
Yeah, but she didn't fire off her reply until she saw the whites of his eyes.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 15, 2010 16:22:14 GMT
Okay, so it's me who is a grammar/spelling Nazi. I meant the misspelling of yoke. Now I do have egg on my face. Well spotted. That's the problem with a spell checker, if it's spelt right it gets passed.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 15, 2010 16:32:25 GMT
Mark could be right....he is wise beyond his years I hadn't thought of it this way. Ok then, I was serious.
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Post by lola on Apr 15, 2010 17:15:39 GMT
Desert, glamor, high heels....I keep getting this image of Marlene Dietrich pulling off her shoes to follow Gary Cooper across the sand. (Different part of North Africa.) His character probably thought personality was most important, too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2010 17:38:58 GMT
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Post by lola on Apr 15, 2010 18:03:56 GMT
Yes, K. 30 assorted APAISers + our evening dress and picture hats = a boatful of the equally glam.
Bette: Rules are made to be broken. At least mine are, by me.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 15, 2010 18:19:04 GMT
In case some didn't know, the place that the boat is setting off from in that clip is the Old Cataracts Hotel in Aswan. It's still a very scenic place. An just to be pedantic about it - they set off going south. Unfortunately, you can't, not far anyway. There's a bloody great big cataract in the way. That's why it's called the Cataracts Hotel.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 15, 2010 19:03:47 GMT
We'll all set off from Abu Simbel then.
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Post by lola on Apr 16, 2010 0:26:34 GMT
Maybe leave the pearls at home just in case.
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Post by spindrift on Apr 16, 2010 10:21:27 GMT
Seriously though - it would be great to sail around Lake Nasser for 3 days....who wants to do it?
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