Frigiliana , Acebuchal the "Lost Village" and Wars

 Frigiliana and Acebuchal, The “Lost Village”

 

Frigiliana is a well-known pueblo blanco (“white village”, of Moorish origins) in the hills some six kilometres inland from Nerja on the coast. 

 

Justice in War: Michael Walzer

 Justice in War

 

 

Michael Walzer is the pre-eminent exponent of modern Just War theory. This is the philosophical tradition that debates the “justice” of going to war and the moral constraints that should be observed in the waging of it. 

 

Valley of the Kings; Abu Simbel

 The Valley of the Kings; Abu Simbel

 

The Valley is an impressive deep desert feature. It is marred by the modern infrastructure of a tarmac road, which takes tourist buggies from the lower-lying visitor centre to the edge of the site, at the Valley’s far end, where are concentrated the tombs.

A Visit to Egypt

 A Visit to Egypt

 

My first time in Egypt, indeed in Africa. First impressions arrived on the plane, coming into land at Cairo. There's a lot of desert, but the desert is dotted with strangely symmetrical new developments -apartment blocks and what look like (and probably are) military or police barracks.