I know I talk a lot about the narratives we build, and build ourselves into, when we travel, and, maybe not surprisingly, we’ve been talking a bit about that aboard our cruise up the Nile this week. It is hard, of course, to escape the constant specter of Poirot and Agatha Christie in whose footsteps so much of this trip is done. Death on the Nile (and Murder on the Orient Express, for that matter) is so absolutely monumental in the minds of travelers that it is almost impossible to take a Nile trip (or a train journey in Europe) without making a small bit of it in pilgrimage, without Poirot looking over your shoulder.
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