It is exactly 7 years since I last stayed in Cairo. I was here over 2000/01 New Year staying with my friend Andrew, who was teaching here at the time. This is the same friend who is responsible for my current life in Karachi ( and also one of my best friends in the world!!).
Thomas and I stayed last night in the Rameses Hilton, which nearly didn't come off. We had booked with an internet site and assumed all was well. When we arrived there was no record of the booking. We then used the hotel internet to try and find out what was going on and were charged LE43, for the privilaege, which is about 4GBP for 15 minutes! Which by any standard is scandelous. We found that eh internet company had be unable to make our booking so we asked at the desk how much aroom would be and he quotes US$310, 150GBP, 50 pounds more than we had booked on line. Thomas set off for an internet cafe and managed to find another site and booked on there for 90, and finally we were shown to our room!
Aftert this we went out to dinner and attempted after that to go for a felucca ride on the Nile, unfortunately there was no wind and so we ended up drinking cocktails at the top of The Grand Hyatt Hotel instead looking out over the river and the city!
We are currently catching up with the world on the internet before going to the airport to fly down to Sharm, for three days by the Red Sea where we intend to eat, drink, swim, read and sleep!! This is a novelty for Thomas, as being a poor student he would normally be taking the 8 hour bus ride, rather than the one hour flight, the difference being about 50GBP in cost. However, dear reader, he is travelling with me! The bus was never and option!
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