Trouble at Three Castles (west of Gilf Kebir).
We went on without the car, its driver and our cook, who stayed to
wait for help to arrive from Cairo.
Fortunately we had satellite phones so the situation was well under control and help
was soon sent from Cairo.
In the meantime, the head driver did the cooking and he was excellent!
If you were to look for irony this would be the place to find it.
In the Second World War the Long Range Desert Group parked up a set of
vehicles at Three Castles as a reserve, and they were found by Laszlo Almasy.
The Hungarian Almasy (used loosely to form the character of "The English Patient")
was working for the Axis forces and poured fine desert sand into the fuel tanks. He ensured that
different quantities were added so that the vehicles broke down at different
places along their journey. He knew the founder of the LRDG,
Ralph Bagnold, very well, because they were friends before the war.
A fascinating part of the history of both the Western Desert and the Second World War.
We went on without the car, its driver and our cook, who stayed to
wait for help to arrive from Cairo.
Fortunately we had satellite phones so the situation was well under control and help
was soon sent from Cairo.
In the meantime, the head driver did the cooking and he was excellent!
If you were to look for irony this would be the place to find it.
In the Second World War the Long Range Desert Group parked up a set of
vehicles at Three Castles as a reserve, and they were found by Laszlo Almasy.
The Hungarian Almasy (used loosely to form the character of "The English Patient")
was working for the Axis forces and poured fine desert sand into the fuel tanks. He ensured that
different quantities were added so that the vehicles broke down at different
places along their journey. He knew the founder of the LRDG,
Ralph Bagnold, very well, because they were friends before the war.
A fascinating part of the history of both the Western Desert and the Second World War.
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