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In my last-but-one blog entry, I apologized for the fact that I haven't been as active either here or on the main Propertastic! site as I usually am because I have been very hard at work on two big projects.

One of these was Propertastic's Complete Guide to Hurghada Property and Red Sea Riviera Real Estate, and the other one I said I would tell you about a week later. That week became two weeks because I then got involved in yet another huge project that was even more urgent. Again I will tell you about that next week once it is released.

Mum finally achieved her dream of seeing the pyramids. Another very full day. It is amazing that the pyramids are so close to town. One minute you are driving through the busy streets and the next you can see the Pyramids towering over all the buildings and shops like a huge mountain. It was another smoggy day with low visibility (about 700metres) so hopefully it will be clearer when we go back again at the end of the trip.

Another early rise for our journey to Aswan, the journey itself was 4 hours. It was interesting trip as we got to see life along the Nile, lush green farmland of Sugar Cane and Banana plantations. The number of Donkey and Carts we passed was evidence that farming here was still very simple. Aswan itself was smaller than Luxor and very much 3rd world, it seemed the further south we got the more simple the way of life. This part of Egypt is also home to a large Nubian population a tall black and slender people. Our Hotel was right in the city centre which was handy to get around.

(CNN) -- A one-word blog post from a cell phone helped to free an American student from an Egyptian jail, but it took the signatures and support of thousands of activists to get his translator out.

When detained in April, graduate student James Karl Buck turned to his cell phone and typed the message, "Arrested," alerting all his friends on the microblog service Twitter site.

Upon his release shortly afterward, the first thing Buck did was send another message, "Free."