Street scene 1.

Some old buildings. Alex' is an absolute feast for photographers - I could have stayed for several days just wandering and seeing images like this.

The water-seller

Street scene with donkey-cart.

Street scene with pavement stall.

Photographer at work . ( A tour guide who insisted on taking a photograph of the whole group , using everyone's camera - I opted out ).

Pompey's Pillar - a single block of granite 62 m ( 200ft) high which I estimate to weigh over 500 tons . Erected in the reign of the emperor Diocletian about 300AD. I don't know how anyone could do it even today .One of the wonders of the world - modern as well as ancient , in my view.

One of the several sphinx's at the Pompey's Pillar site, which is currently being investigated by archaeologists ( a dig site.)

The dig in progress .

Kaybait Citadel ( c.1500 AD) Like a glorious fort ready for the foreign legion , in all those 'Boys Own Paper' stories I read all those years ago.

Alexandria Museum . A beautiful building , formerly the US Embassy. Note to photographers - I could not get far enough away for a picture, using the 18mm ( 27mm equivalent in 35mm camera terms) lens, so had to tilt upwards and introduce a lot of distortion - removed using the Photoshop 9 lens correction filter. The more expert viewer will spot this !

Funeral mastaba , Old Kingdom.

Unmistakeably , the enigmatic Akhnaton.

Osiris ( not in the museum - a street statue).

Alexander the Great.

Juno/Hera (?) photographed ( not by me) underwater, as part of the discoveries made in recent years in what is now the harbour . The museum is disappointingly short on this.