Jessica Lee
@jessofarabia.bsky.social
Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.
The best part though? When well known Ptolemaic era Egypt expert... erm Alastair Campbell 🤔 was given more airtime than actual Egyptologists to explain the end of Ancient Egypt.
What the actual fuck 🤷
What the actual fuck 🤷
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The best part though? When well known Ptolemaic era Egypt expert... erm Alastair Campbell 🤔 was given more airtime than actual Egyptologists to explain the end of Ancient Egypt.
What the actual fuck 🤷
What the actual fuck 🤷
Sorry, started laughing when they VERY deliberately showed museum workers CAREFULLY handling the Rosetta Stone case as if, woo, no one can look after stolen goods as well as we can so we can't give it back🙃
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sorry, started laughing when they VERY deliberately showed museum workers CAREFULLY handling the Rosetta Stone case as if, woo, no one can look after stolen goods as well as we can so we can't give it back🙃
The narration is very excited over describing this statue of Ramses II, but no mention of the Ramesseum on Luxor's west bank & how Belzoni removed it.
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The narration is very excited over describing this statue of Ramses II, but no mention of the Ramesseum on Luxor's west bank & how Belzoni removed it.
I'm watching the BBC's Civilisations: Rise & Fall & I reckon a better name for the program is 'Just a wee bit of expensive PR we're doing for the British Museum'
Lol, wanna tell us the deets on how you became a 'repository of memory' 'home to 8 million artefacts'... Nah, course they don't.
Lol, wanna tell us the deets on how you became a 'repository of memory' 'home to 8 million artefacts'... Nah, course they don't.
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I'm watching the BBC's Civilisations: Rise & Fall & I reckon a better name for the program is 'Just a wee bit of expensive PR we're doing for the British Museum'
Lol, wanna tell us the deets on how you became a 'repository of memory' 'home to 8 million artefacts'... Nah, course they don't.
Lol, wanna tell us the deets on how you became a 'repository of memory' 'home to 8 million artefacts'... Nah, course they don't.
Come holiday in Ortahisar where we're officially advertising a pretend Michelin star & some weird hotel complex that doesn't actually exist 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Come holiday in Ortahisar where we're officially advertising a pretend Michelin star & some weird hotel complex that doesn't actually exist 🙃
It's snowing. ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It's snowing. ❤️
Everyone on my road is on day 3 of going for a wee hike every time we leave the house.
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Everyone on my road is on day 3 of going for a wee hike every time we leave the house.
Local dolmuş has had a funky headrest upgrade 😂
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Local dolmuş has had a funky headrest upgrade 😂
My life is 90% sweeping leaves this month
October 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My life is 90% sweeping leaves this month
No. Ürgüp's passport photo studio is not creepy at all...
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
No. Ürgüp's passport photo studio is not creepy at all...
Autumn is the best season.
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Autumn is the best season.
A tortoise happily plodding up my street.
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A tortoise happily plodding up my street.
It's that time of year when everything has been burnt golden
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's that time of year when everything has been burnt golden
Lol, chicken thief knows she's been bad & is sulking on the carpet.
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lol, chicken thief knows she's been bad & is sulking on the carpet.
Look, I love @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social as much as anyone else who reads a lot of fiction in translation but their typesetting fucks me right off.
Whhhhhyyyyy do you keep doing the stupidly wide page margins & tiny font.
Whhhhhyyyyy do you keep doing the stupidly wide page margins & tiny font.
September 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Look, I love @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social as much as anyone else who reads a lot of fiction in translation but their typesetting fucks me right off.
Whhhhhyyyyy do you keep doing the stupidly wide page margins & tiny font.
Whhhhhyyyyy do you keep doing the stupidly wide page margins & tiny font.
Travel logistics update!
Tcdd are now selling tickets for the international Van-Tebriz-Tehran rail journey on their website!
cc @seatsixtyone.bsky.social
Tcdd are now selling tickets for the international Van-Tebriz-Tehran rail journey on their website!
cc @seatsixtyone.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Travel logistics update!
Tcdd are now selling tickets for the international Van-Tebriz-Tehran rail journey on their website!
cc @seatsixtyone.bsky.social
Tcdd are now selling tickets for the international Van-Tebriz-Tehran rail journey on their website!
cc @seatsixtyone.bsky.social
Ok, Kate Folk's debut novel is the most dead-pan funny book I've read for ages.
For a moment I thought she wasn't going to stick the landing (no pun intended) but she came through with the goods.
High recommend if you have a slightly odd sense of humour. ⬇️
For a moment I thought she wasn't going to stick the landing (no pun intended) but she came through with the goods.
High recommend if you have a slightly odd sense of humour. ⬇️
September 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Ok, Kate Folk's debut novel is the most dead-pan funny book I've read for ages.
For a moment I thought she wasn't going to stick the landing (no pun intended) but she came through with the goods.
High recommend if you have a slightly odd sense of humour. ⬇️
For a moment I thought she wasn't going to stick the landing (no pun intended) but she came through with the goods.
High recommend if you have a slightly odd sense of humour. ⬇️
Mother cat1 to mother cat2: yeah, so the childless foreign woman's house is here. Just drop the little fuckers in her yard so we can go get wasted in the Valley.
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Mother cat1 to mother cat2: yeah, so the childless foreign woman's house is here. Just drop the little fuckers in her yard so we can go get wasted in the Valley.
Look at the fucking size of it.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Look at the fucking size of it.
Kitten realised he can jump up onto the kitchen window ledge so I guess there goes my quiet evenings.
September 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Kitten realised he can jump up onto the kitchen window ledge so I guess there goes my quiet evenings.
Ok, guess I'm not moving for awhile.
August 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Ok, guess I'm not moving for awhile.
Scrabbling around in boxes to find where I'd stored an important document, I stumbled across my tour leader days collection of business cards.
Feast your eyes on the now defunct joyous art of the Syrian tourism business card.
Feast your eyes on the now defunct joyous art of the Syrian tourism business card.
August 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Scrabbling around in boxes to find where I'd stored an important document, I stumbled across my tour leader days collection of business cards.
Feast your eyes on the now defunct joyous art of the Syrian tourism business card.
Feast your eyes on the now defunct joyous art of the Syrian tourism business card.
Might just go commit some terrorism.
August 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Might just go commit some terrorism.
I seem to have acquired a pet hedgehog. 🤷
August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I seem to have acquired a pet hedgehog. 🤷
Lol. The Valley cats, very unhappy with the fact I slept in.
August 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Lol. The Valley cats, very unhappy with the fact I slept in.