Taking his last ferry across the Suez Canal to Port Said, Egypt, before moving his base camp further west on the Mediterranean coast.
Free auto/pedestrian ferries run constantly across the Suez Canal between Egypt’s Port Fouad in Asia and Port Said in Africa. With tourism down 90% since the 2011 revolution, the canal is Egypt’s largest earner of foreign exchange.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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