St Catherine's Monastery, Egypt. Jun 7, 2011 by travelworld Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine …More
St Catherine's Monastery, Egypt.
Jun 7, 2011 by travelworld Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title.
Jun 7, 2011 by travelworld Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title.
Oh quite! 
An engineer mate of mine loves anything French of the first 50 years of the 1900s in Paris. Therefore, her love for the traditional 'haute cuisine' of the time is legendary. She actually made aspic beginning with the cow's foot, instead of just buying the gelatine in the local grocery! 
It took her at least the day to prepare and cook..... Thank God for good friends and good food!
It took her at least the day to prepare and cook..... Thank God for good friends and good food!
Ira! 
All went well dear.... One can never go wrong with a 12-course French dinner (Haute cuisine a la mode de Paris circa 1920!).
Gosh!! I know about that heat! However, it is a dry heat which is ok - it is the humidity that gets to me (if there is any). At Mt Athos in August, it got up to +41C when I was studying their chant, and because of the proximity to the sea, the humidity was high …More
Ira! All went well dear.... One can never go wrong with a 12-course French dinner (Haute cuisine a la mode de Paris circa 1920!).
Gosh!! I know about that heat! However, it is a dry heat which is ok - it is the humidity that gets to me (if there is any). At Mt Athos in August, it got up to +41C when I was studying their chant, and because of the proximity to the sea, the humidity was high as well; I fainted twice!
Gosh!! I know about that heat! However, it is a dry heat which is ok - it is the humidity that gets to me (if there is any). At Mt Athos in August, it got up to +41C when I was studying their chant, and because of the proximity to the sea, the humidity was high as well; I fainted twice!
Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated …More
Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / Ref: 954), this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, which also lays claim to that title.