I will include the current Panorama menu in the slideshow. Prices seem to have risen 25% since earlier this year, or they are operating dual pricing. And the new staff are foreign (Morocco? Tunisia?) and understand very little English. The cold drinks were not cold - maybe the refrigerator was turned off overnight or there had been a very long power cut?
A few days ago the Nile Valley sun birds returned to Sheherazade, but were not posing for the camera.
At Baierat yesterday a new type of boat passed - the one with the load of blue bags. Also, next door's vegetable patch has been growing strongly. The tall bushes that have been protected are probably guava saplings.
Towards sunset a thick black cloud was clearly visible over Luxor. Either the 17:00 train was coal-fired and using brown coal or the farmers were burning the sugar cane fields. Not a pretty sight.