Judy and this Blogger had flown from Cairo into Luxor, to catch the river boat up the Nile to Aswan. We were lodged in this wonderful,  old British Empire era hotel, with horses and carriages lined up in front. We would take the carriages to the KARNAK  Temple Complex, where, hand in hand, we would stroll at sunset where Alexander the Great walked. One night, we shared an Ouzo with the Greek Riverboat Captain, who was going to take us Up The Nile.  Ah, so Romantic, so Byronic. It could have been 1820. One night, while we were sound asleep, there was an insistent and incessant knock on the room door. ‘ ALL GUESTS TO THE MAIN BALLROOM.” We dressed and joined the herd of tourists massing in the ballroom. They sorted us out by passports, clustering the nationalities together. When it was sorted out, all the guests were lined up, around the room  against the wall; the Egyptian hotel workers, and the Egyptian river crew who had joined us for dinner the night before , h...