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Hello! After lots of requests and many weeks my latest travel blog is now up! I’ve decided to jump around and go ahead and publish the Middle East ones prior to the Christmas break one (the photos are done but not the writing, I’m working on it, things have been busy!).

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Lisa Damico
2007-04-21 22:25:29

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nice to have another relaxing day in Dahab before we braved the real Egypt on the mainland.

Since we weren't exactly the happiest with our hostel, we decided not to dine there for dinner, but instead try one of the restaurants recommended in what became our Middle East Bible - The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle East. "LP" led us to Jasmine, another hostel/restaurant up the beach from ours. To my friends' amusement our host turned out to be a guy about our age that we'd seen earlier in the week because he kept walking by and smiling at me while Deborah and I were playing Backgammon (sidenote - everyone in the Middle East LOVES Backgammon, you can't go anywhere without seeing a Backgammon board, so the staff at Penguin had taught us girls how to play). "Momo the host" showed us to our table (same pillows on the floor setup that I loved) and as hospitality is very important to the Egyptians, he remained at our table to entertain us while we waited for our food. Momo (short for Mohammed, but since almost everyone is
named Mohammed, they have lots of nicknames), in his broken English, suggested we play a game, as we're a fun-loving group we said sure, let's play an Egyptian game, tell us the rules. "Simple game simple game, it's called "Do you have a boyfriend and if no why not"" Great game Momo . . so Momo goes "Ok, let's start with .....you" and points to me - my friends really like this of course. Trying to be funny, I chose to quote the pop singer Nelly Furtado and responded with "No, because I'm a maneater" (friends laughed) but poor Momo understood not "maneater," but "because there are so many" (friends laughed even more). Conveniently after just one round - meaning me - Momo was tired of the game - smooth operator Momo, smooth operator.

This reminds me, I promised you the best pick up line ever and you're probably reading this essay of a travel blog I've written wondering what is this amazing pick up line Lisa speaks of . . . This requires ...