Sunday 19th April 2026 6.30pm From Cairo to Istanbul

Phil Cooper   Phil will give an illustrated talk on the highlights from his trip of a lifetime 20 or more years ago  from Cairo visiting the oldest functioning monastery in Mount Sinai;  Jordan’s Wadi Rum and of course Petra;  fortresses in Syria, the oldest Byzantine Mosaics at Madaba;  Palmyra and Aleppo before the destruction of the civil war,; finishing in Turkey with Cappadoccia and Istanbul.