Ted Cookson's travel articles listed below were published in the British Community Association's BCA Cairo Chronicle, a 160-page color magazine with a circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Cairo, Egypt monthly except August. Total magazine readership is estimated by the editor to be approximately 8,000.
Click on a link below to view (a) the text version of the article or (b) PDF files showing the article pages as they appeared in the magazine with color photographs. Those text versions which contain still images or links to video clips are identified below.
For your convenience, an alphabetical listing is shown immediately below and a chronological listing is shown far below. Some of Ted's favorite articles are marked with an asterisk (*).
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF TED'S TRAVEL ARTICLES:
SEASONAL TRAVEL
TOPICS:
Winter Travel Destinations
(text version) -
contains 15 video clips
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Spring Travel Destinations (text version) -
contains 12 video clips
.
PDF, page l PDF, page 2
Summer Travel Destinations (text version) -
contains 14 video clips
.
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Autumn Travel Destinations (text
version) -
contains 2 video clips
.
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
COUNTRY/REGION TRAVEL TOPICS:
Afghanistan: Kabul (text version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
AFRICA: Botswana, Kenya,
Tanzania & South Africa (text version) - contains
1 video clip .
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
AFRICA: Morocco,
Senegal, The Gambia, Ghana, Togo, Namibia & South Africa (text version)
-
contains 18 video clips
Africa Circumnavigation Cruise
- I PDF
AFRICA: Morocco, Senegal, The Gambia, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon,
Gabon,
Namibia & South Africa (text version)
-
contains 1 video clip
.
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
AFRICA/INDIAN OCEAN/ARABIA: South Africa, Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles,
Kenya, Egypt & Tunisia plus Oman (text version)
-
contains 21 video clips
Africa Circumnavigation Cruise
- II PDF
Ascension Island
(U. K.) in the South Atlantic Ocean
(text version)
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Australia (text version) -
contains 6 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Australia: Norfolk Island
(text version) .
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Botswana: Safari (text version)*
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Brazil: Fernando de Noronha
Island & St. Peter & St. Paul Rocks in the Atlantic Ocean (text version)*
- contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Brazil: Amazon River Cruise (text
version) - contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
British Indian Ocean Territory (U. K.)
in the Indian Ocean (text version)*
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Canada: Churchill, Manitoba
(text version)* -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
China: Chengdu,
Sichuan (text version)
-
contains 16 video clips
Chengdu Pandas PDF
China: Hong Kong (text version)
.
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
China: Yangtze River Cruise (text
version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Easter Island (Chile) in the South Pacific Ocean
(text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 3
Egypt: Suez Canal (text version) -
contains 5 video clips
Suez Canal PDF
Greece's
Corinth Canal (text version) -
contains 3 video clips
Corinth Canal PDF
Greenland (text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Iceland: Reykjavik (text
version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
India (text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Italy's Amalfi Coast (text version)
-
contains 1 video clip
Amalfi Coast PDF
Jordan (text version) .
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Kenya: Lamu (text version) -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Kenya: Safari (text version)* -
contains 3 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Kosovo (text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Libya (text version)
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Madeira Island (Portugal) in the North Atlantic Ocean
(text version)
-
contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Maldives (text version)
PDF, page 1
Mali (text version)
-
contains 16 video clips
Mali PDF
Malta (text version)
-
contains 1 video clip
Malta PDF
Mauritius (text version)
-
contains 2 video clips
Mauritius PDF
Monaco (text version) -
contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Norfolk Island in the South Pacific Ocean
(text version) .
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Panama: A Panama Canal Transit (text version) -
contains 2 video clips
Panama Canal Transit PDF
Peru:
Cusco and the Sacred Valley of the Incas (text version) -
contains 3 video clips
Cusco and Sacred Valley of the
Incas PDF
Peru:
Nazca Lines (text version) -
contains 3 video clips
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Pitcairn Island (U. K.) in the South Pacific
Ocean (text version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Portugal: Lisbon (text version) -
contains 2 video clips
Lisbon PDF
Portugal:
Western Algarve (text version)
Western Algarve PDF
Reunion Island (text version) -
contains 6 video clips
Reunion Island PDF
St. Helena Island (U. K.) in the South Atlantic Ocean,
Part I
(text version)*
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
St. Helena Island (U. K.) in the South Atlantic Ocean,
Part II
(text version)*
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Saudi Arabia: Jeddah (text version)
-
contains 3 video clips
Jeddah PDF
Seychelles (text version)
-
contains 4 video clips
Seychelles PDF
Singapore: Changi Airport (text
version)
PDF, page 1
Somalia (text version)*
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
South
Africa: Bushmans Kloof, a Most Unique Resort in Western Cape Province
(text version)
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
South Africa: Cape Town (text version) -
contains 1 video clip
.
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
South Africa: Safari (text version) -
contains 1 video clip
.
South Africa Safari PDF
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Cambodia, Laos,
Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam (text version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Tanzania (text version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Zanzibar (text version)
-
contains 5 video clips
Zanzibar PDF
Tristan da Cunha Island (U. K.) in the
South Atlantic Ocean, Part I (text version)* .
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Tristan da Cunha Island (U. K.) in the
South Atlantic Ocean, Part II (text version)* .
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Turkey (text version) .
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
United Kingdom: Greenwich,
England (text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
United States: Alaska Cruise (text version)
-
contains 23 video clips
Alaska
Cruise PDF
United States: Atlanta, Georgia (text version)*
-
contains 16 video clips
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
United States: Mississippi River
Cruise (text version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
United States: Northern Florida (text version)
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
United
States: Oregon (text version) -
contains 1 video clip
.
Oregon PDF
United States: Orlando, Florida (text
version)
-
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
United States: Utah (text
version)
-
contains 1 video clip
Utah Parks PDF
United States: Western Texas, Southern New Mexico & Southeastern
Arizona (text version) -
contains 1 video clip
Texas, New
Mexico & Arizona PDF
United States: Wake Island (text version)
-
contains 9 video clips
Wake Island PDF
Vietnam (text version) .
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Venezuela: Angel Falls (text
version)
-
contains 7 video clips
Angel Falls PDF
Wake Island (text version)
-
contains 9 video clips
Wake Island PDF
Zambia (text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Zanzibar (text version)
-
contains 5 video clips
Zanzibar PDF
CRUISE TRAVEL
TOPICS:
Alaska Cruise (text version)
-
contains 23 video clips
Alaska
Cruise PDF
Amazon Adventure Cruise
(text version) - contains
1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Cruises at Sea (text version) .
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Cruise Ship Anti-Piracy
Precautions off the Coast of Somalia
and in the Gulf of Aden (text version)*
-
contains 5 video clips
Africa Circumnavigation Cruise
- III PDF
Mississippi River Cruise (text
version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Queen
Mary 2 (text version) -
contains 6 video clips
Queen
Mary 2 PDF
Voyager of the Seas: Caribbean Cruise Mega-ship
(text version)
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
West Africa Cruise (text version) -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Yangtze River Cruise (text version)
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
******
CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF TED'S TRAVEL ARTICLES:
2002 - 3 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Oct.: Kenya Safari Basics
(text version) - 2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Nov.: Singapore's Unique Changi Airport
(text version).. - 1 page
PDF, page 1
Dec.: Diving in the Maldives (text
version) - 1 page
PDF, page 1
2003 - 9 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: A Travelers' Century Club Yacht Expedition
to Remote
British Indian Ocean Territory (text version)* - 3 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Feb.: No article published.
Mar.: A Visit to Pitcairn Island
in the South Pacific (text version) - 3 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Apr.: Easter Island: Navel of the World
(text version) - 3 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 1
PDF, page 3
May : An Amazon Adventure Cruise
(text version) - 3 pages - contains
1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Jun.: No article published.
Jul.: All About Cruises at Sea
(text version).. - 2 pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Sep.: So You Want to Travel in Africa?
A Safari Q & A (text version) - 3 pages - contains
1 video clip
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Oct.: A Travelers' Century Club-Inspired "Fly Through" of
Somalia (text version)* - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Nov.: Voyager of the Seas, One of the World's Largest Cruise Ships
(text version).. - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Dec.: A Visit to Kosovo (text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
2004 - 10 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: Viewing HMS Bounty
Artifacts on a Day Trip
from London to Greenwich, England (text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Feb.: A Sightseeing Tour of Kabul,
Afghanistan (text version) - 3 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Mar.: A Cruise to Tristan da Cunha Island, Part
I (text version)..* - 3 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Apr.: A Cruise to Tristan da Cunha Island, Part II
(text version)..* - 3 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
May : A Yangtze River Cruise in China
(text version) - 3 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Jun.: A Second Trip to India (text
version) - 3 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Jul.: Some Tips on Turkey (text
version) - 3 pages -
contains 1 video clip
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Sep.: A Cruise to Greenland (text
version)
- 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Oct.: A Short Visit to Iceland
(text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Nov.: A Photo Safari Adventure: Following Wild Dogs in Botswana
(text version)* - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Dec.: No article published.
2005 - 11 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: Interesting Winter Travel Destinations from Egypt
(text version). - 2 pages -
contains 15 video clips
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Feb.: Libya Tours: The Good News and the Bad News
(And How to Lessen the Latter)
(text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Mar.: Jordan (text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Apr.: Lamu, A Unique Island Off Kenya's Northern Coast
(text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
May : A Cruise to Some Little-Known Brazilian Atlantic Islands:
Fernando de Noronha and St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks
(text version)* - 2 pages -
contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Jun.: A Mississippi River Steamboat Cruise
(text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Jul.: The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
(text version) - 2 pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Sep.: Zambia: A New Safari
Destination (text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Oct.: Tanzania: A Unique Safari Destination
(text version).. - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Nov.: Southeast Asia (text version) - 2 pages
-
contains 15 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Dec.: Visiting the Polar Bear Capital of the World: Churchill, Manitoba
(text version)* - 2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
2006 - 11 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: Best Countries for Spring Travel
(text version) - 2 pages -
contains 12 video clips
PDF, page l PDF, page 2
Feb.: Exotic Vietnam (text version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Mar.: Scenic Cape Town and its Environs
(text version)- 2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Apr.: Fascinating Hong Kong (text
version) - 2 pages
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
May : Best Countries for Summer Travel
(text version) - 2 pages -
contains 15 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Jun.: Amazing
Australia (text version).. - 2 pages
-
contains 6 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Jul.: Interesting Autumn Travel Destinations from Egypt
(text version) - 3 pages -
contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Sep.: The Ins and Outs of Kenya Safaris:
Everything You Always
Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask (text version) * - 3 pages -
contains 3 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3 .
Oct.: Miniscule Monaco (text
version)
- 2 pages -
contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1 PDF, page 2
Nov.: Follow Your Dreams to Orlando in
Central Florida (text version)
- 2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
Dec.: Madeira Island, Portugal (text
version) - 2 pages -
contains 2 video clips
PDF, page 1
PDF, page 2
2007 - 11 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: A West Africa Cruise (text
version) - 3 pages -
contains 1 video clip
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Feb.: St. Helena Island:
Sightseeing and a Surprise!, Part I (text version)* - 3 pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Mar.: St. Helena Island:
Sightseeing and a Surprise!, Part II (text version)* - 2 pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Apr.: The Summit (text version) -
2 pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
May:
Ascension Island
(text version) - 2
pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Jun.:
Norfolk Island
(text version) - 2
pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Jul.: A Day in Atlanta
(text version)* - 3
pages -
contains 16 video clips
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
PDF, page 3
Sep.: Bushmans Kloof, a Most Unique
Resort in South Africa (text version) - 2 pages
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Oct.: A Flight over Peru's Nazca Lines (text version) - 2 pages -
contains 3 video clips
PDF,
page 1 PDF, page 2
Nov.: Greece's Corinth Canal (text version) - 2 pages -
contains 3 video clips
Corinth Canal PDF
Dec.: Italy's Amalfi Coast (text version) -
2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
Amalfi Coast PDF
2008 - 10 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: Utah's Five National Parks (text version) - 2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
Utah Parks PDF
Feb.: A Day Trip Through Portugal's Western
Algarve (text version) - 2 pages
Western
Algarve PDF
Mar.: Oregon, Land of Contrasts (text version)
- 2 pages -
contains 1 video clip
Oregon PDF
Apr.: A Caribbean Cruise on Queen Mary
2 (text version) - 3 pages -
contains 6 video clips
Queen
Mary 2 PDF
May: No article published.
Jun.: The Road to Timbuktu (text version) -
3 pages
-
contains 16 video clips
Timbuktu PDF
Jul.:
A Swing through the American
Southwest: U. S. National Parks & National Monuments
in Western Texas, Southern New Mexico & Southeastern
Arizona (text version) - 4 pages -
contains 1 video clip
Texas, New
Mexico & Arizona PDF
Sep.: A South Africa Safari (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 1 video clip
South Africa Safari PDF
Oct.:
A Suez Canal Transit (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 5 video clips
Suez Canal PDF
Nov.:
Notes from an Africa
Circumnavigation Cruise, Part I: Casablanca, Morocco to Cape Town, South
Africa (text version)
-
4 pages
-
contains 18 video clips
Africa Circumnavigation Cruise
- I PDF
(7.8 MB high resolution file)
Dec.: Notes from an Africa
Circumnavigation Cruise, Part II: Durban, South Africa to Gabes, Tunisia (text version)
-
4 pages
-
contains 21 video clips
Africa Circumnavigation Cruise
- II PDF
2009 - 10 TRAVEL ARTICLES:
Jan.: Notes from
an Africa Circumnavigation Cruise, Part III:
Cruise Ship Anti-Piracy
Precautions
off the Coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden (text version)* -
3 pages
-
contains 5 video clips
Africa Circumnavigation Cruise
- III PDF
Feb.: A Long Weekend Escape to
Venezuela's Angel Falls -
2 pages
-
contains 7 video clips
Venezuela's Angel Falls PDF
Mar.: Malta, a Jewel in the
Mediterranean (text version) - 2 pages
-
contains 1 video clip
Malta PDF
Apr.: Lovely Lisbon (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 2 video clips
Lisbon PDF
May:
No article published.
Jun.:
Reunion Island, Secret of the Indian Ocean (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 6 video clips
Reunion Island PDF
Jul.: A Cruise to Alaska (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 23 video clips
Cruise to Alaska PDF
Sep.:
Marvellous Mauritius (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 2 video clips
Mauritius PDF
Oct.: Spectacular Seychelles (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 4 video clips
Seychelles PDF
Nov.: Fabled Zanzibar (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 5 video clips
Zanzibar PDF
Dec.: A Morning in Jeddah (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 3 video clips -
article no. 75
Jeddah PDF
TED'S TRAVEL
ARTICLES PLANNED FOR 2010-2011:
2010 - 6 TRAVEL ARTICLES TO DATE:
Jan.:
No magazine published as December 2009 was a double issue.
Feb.: A Travelers Century Club Visit
to Wake Island (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 9 video clips
- article no. 76
Wake Island PDF
Mar.:
Viewing Pandas in Chengdu,
Sichuan, China (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 16 video clips -
article no. 77
Chengdu Pandas PDF
Apr.:
Cusco, Peru and the Sacred
Valley of the Incas (text version) -
2 pages
-
contains 3 video clips - article no. 78
Cusco and Sacred Valley of the
Incas PDF
May: A Wild World Tour: Eight
Years in Search of Exotic Wildlife on Seven Continents (text version)
- 3 pages -
contains 6 video clips
- article no. 79
A Wild World Tour PDF
Jun.:
A Panama Canal Transit (text version)
- 2 pages -
contains 2 video clips
- article no. 80
Panama Canal Transit PDF
Jul.: A Visit to Yangon, Myanmar (text version) - 2 pages - will contain video clips - article no. 81
Sep.: The Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire - ? pages - will contain video clips - article no. 82
Oct.: Namibia
-
? pages
-
will contain video clips - article no. 83
Nov.: Dubai -
? pages
-
will contain video clips -
article no. 84
Dec.: Mexico's Chichen Itza. -
? pages
-
will contain video clips - article no. 85
2011 - 0 TRAVEL ARTICLES TO DATE:
Jan.: Antarctica
-
? pages
-
will contain video clips -
article no. 86
Possible Future Topics: A Danube River Cruise; Prague, Berlin and
Dresden; Portsmouth, England; Alberta's National Parks; New York City;
Indonesia's Komodo Island; A Beatles Tour of Liverpool.
Most future articles are expected
to contain links to video clips.
26 June 2010