Egypt - the highlights - pog

On the road to Marrakech
Reality bites
poggy style (pace downtown)

Egypt - the highlights

Red Sea - no it isn't.
Getting bladdered on next door's Jack Daniels on first night, doing the 'Madness' dance outside in the wee hours and jumping into the pool fully dressed is a very, very good way of nearly getting chucked out on your first night.
And your second.
Egyptian cab drivers are homicidal/suicidal nutcases. Take a friend with you who will smack them on the back of the head while shouting 'Watch the road!' and 'BOTH hands on the wheel!' as you gibber in the corner watching the road rush past through the holes in the floor.
Egyptian wine is not weaker than European wine. Fact.
Nor is Egyptian beer.
It is very weird to enter your hotel room in the afternoons to find the staff have made amusing models out of your towels and sometimes your bedspreads. The most impressive was the life-sized crocodile, which required both bedspreads and towels. The creepiest was the babies, which had toilet rolls for heads. With faces drawn on.
That wasn't feta.

2.5.07 17:28

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Daxy / Website (3.5.07 12:51)
It isn't red? So wtf do they call it the 'red' sea, eh? I mean, the Black Sea's black, the Yellow Sea's yellow, the White Sea's white....are they all colourblind in Egypt? Huh?
*Considers phoning National Geographic about this bare faced lie*
It sounds like you had a good holiday, anyway, Pog-o-tastic, and you'll be raring to get back to w**k...

Mikeachim / Website (3.5.07 13:13)
A feta worse than death?

Daxy / Website (3.5.07 13:16)
Or maybe a feta ccompli....

pog (3.5.07 16:56)
It was fun, Daxy - tacky as f**k, but fun - apart from the unwanted 'souvenir' that came back with me and kept me locked in my bathroom for a day. Which has been closely followed by a visit from the Snot Fairy. I need a holiday.
Definitely a the first one. It looked like feta, it was stashed near the tomatoes - but it tasted like it had been dead for a rather long time. Undead, even. The zombie of white cheeses. Ack.

Mikeachim / Website (3.5.07 17:49)
An undead goat, perhaps.
....
Euw.

pog (4.5.07 09:55)
Euw indeed.

Jack Dalton (5.5.07 00:17)
Soap perhaps.... :-)

pog (8.5.07 11:59)
Soap that smells of dead zombie goat? This is getting worse and worse .... ack.

Daxy / Website (11.5.07 15:13)
Crabtree and Evelyn have dead zombie goat soap....I have to get it for my Auntie Audrey, who can't get it in her town in Wales...
So...this snot fairy....does she pay up every time you put snot under the pillow?

pog (11.5.07 16:27)
I bet your Auntie's dead popular ...
No - but she makes it bloody impossible for you to ever change your pillowcase again.