I haven’t had any time to blog for my remains blog, as you probably noticed. But soon I will we more focused doing this, and also the main site http://www.remains.se will be upgraded in a major way. So far, I have a draft logotype to work from. It’s based on the first ruin which had a personal affection on me; the old fish- and “freeze house” that my great grandfather built on the island of Ösel (or Saaremaa), Estonia.

So, I will be back pretty soon, and I hope you will join me. I have several thousand more pictures that I want to share.

The egyptian architect

- here on the blog are some pictures of his market in the Kharga Oasis, Egypt

During our honeymoon to Egypt, we decided to go for one night in the Sahara desert, near the Kharga Oasis.

On our way there, we passed a market place that was designed by one of the greatest architects in the egyptian history, Hassan Fathy. Unfortenately, the marketplace was never to be completed, but I guess it was a very good start.

Here you have some pictures from the Kharga marketplace in New Baris. Look at the very nice “air cooling system“.

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You can read more about Hasan Fathi and also see pictures of his other works here.

- the little country that I love

At last! I’m going back to Estonia in a short while. Hopefully I will be able to drive around and take some pictures. I’d love to go to Narva. The thing is that I thought the coolest part of the fortress there was on the russian side of the border, but I just got the wonderful info that it is in Estonia!

I’m still working on the new design for remains.se, but so far I haven’t come up with anything new. Next step is to upload ALL remaining photos I’ve got, it’s about 5000+ pictures! Gulp.

Well, stay tuned!

The ancient temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt

I´ve uploaded 426 new pictures from the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. Those fantastic Egyptian remains are full of  ancient tombs, small sphinxes, wonderful statues, osiris and much more. When I was visiting the Karnak temple, I RAN for about 2 hours in this enourmus place, while my wife sat at a typical egyptian café right outside the temple, reading a book. I think she even managed to read the entire book before I was back.

But still I missed about 1/5 of the entire temple area. Unfortenately, I realised this as I came home to Sweden again, checking Google Maps… But what can you do? How patient you think you are, sooner or later you just don´t care if some guy with blue jalabia says “PSSST!”, pointing behind a big monument and tries to get you in there, so that he can point at a stone, not like a very interesting stone, but a really ordinary one. And they you´ll have to pay him. Sure.

At one of those magical moments, I pointed behind the guy´s back. He turned around and had a look and when he turned back to me, I just smiled and silently put out my empty hand. It didn´t work.

So next time I go to Egypt and visit the great temples, I´ll run faster, then I hopefully get to take even more photos of the statues of Ramses, Amon, Horus and the other cool, ancient guys.

How ever, you can watch the Karnak photos at remains.se here.