Ismalayaha Egypt

A Memory of Billericay.

I remember as a soldier, El-Tel-Er-Kibeir, the camp I was in. The Sunday trips to Ismalayha, the Nile used for to swim in - but get out if a ship was passing through. The Bitter Lakes area, the Suez Canal was something to see. It looked a short distance across but it went down deep from the edges quickly. We used to swim in it, till a ship was passing through, as it dragged the water as a wave with it, so not too safe.