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The Middle East

Si_lad
2004-03-26 20:27:02

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running up and down the centre of them. We checked out a few more hotels but found them to be only slightly better and much more expensive - double what we were paying at the Dahab.

The streets in Cairo are extremely busy and crossing the road is a nightmare. Brings a new meaning to the words "walk like an Egyptian"! Complete Pandemonium.

14th November 1998

We got eaten alive by mosquitoes last night and didn’t get much kip at all. We were both pretty well pissed off, but had to laugh at the state of the room walls in the morning – splattered with blood from the overnight "squat a rama"!

First chore of the day was to go to the Air France office to reconfirm our tickets. Good job we chose to do this because our return flights had been cancelled – due to the fact that Paris Charles de Gaul airport

Was on strike during the days we were due to arrive/depart. All flights around those two days were consequently packed full. In the end, Air France booked us onto a direct flight to London with Egypt Air – which was nice of them. This meant that our one night stopover in Paris was off, but we weren’t too bothered.

While I was sorting our flights out, Nick checked out another hotel – the Hotel Tulip, which turned out to be pleasant and have rooms available, so we checked out of the shitty Dahab and moved into the Tulip.

After more hassle on the street from the "I’ll give you a student card if you buy me duty free" and the "How would you like to be an extra in a film" brigade, we headed for more fast food junk and gorged ourselves at KFC. You just can’t beat fast food sometimes.

In the afternoon we went to the Egyptian National Museum, which was excellent. It was e£20 to get in and full to the brim of interesting stuff, including Tutenkamen’s mask, tombs, etc. We spent quite some time in there and ...