At the going down of the sun we will remember them...

We drove out of Alexs for about 2 hours today to visit the memorials to those who died during the North Africa campaign in the second word war. We saw the German, Italian and Commonwealth monuments and it was a moving experience.

I found it particularly poignent being there with Thomas and Will who are 20 and 17 respectively. As i looked at the ages of the dead they were the same age and not much older, than these 'boys'. I wondered what the world might have been if they had lived. I accept that the 2nd WW was a necessary war, but still it strikes me that we have learnt so little from it. Whilst looking at some of the graves of the nearly 20,000 who died on all sides, my mind wanders to Pakistan, Iraq and any number of other places where fighting continues, 63 years on have we really progressed that far. The only way we can settle our differences is with a gun! It's it a good job we are the civilised ones!

We are of out to the Fish restuarant tonight and then tommorrow a bit sight seeing before a concert in the evening and then back to thehotel for drinks and see in the New Year, 3 hours after Pakistan but two hours before the UK, my mind just about copes with the time differences. We have successfully booked hotels both in Cairo and Sharm, just got to find one at teh airport for the wayhome and then we will be sorted. Anyway, there are some king prawns calling my name so its of to eat we go...