Email from March 11 - Cairo

Hi everyone.
Thought i'd send out a quick update about where i am and what i'm doing.

We're in Cairo and have just found an internet cafe close to where we are staying. The flight over was long 7.5 plus 10.5 with a 2 hour break in singapore. I watched 2 days in paris on the plane which made me not want to go to paris so much. Singapore airport was really nice and we would have liked to stay there longer and visit the actual city. The second flight was terrible because i wasn't able to put my seat back cos the guy behind me didn't like it. It was uncomfortable and hard to sleep.

When we got to egypt we were rushed here and there. i changed some money to egyptian pounds and then we were driven to our hotel through the craziest traffic i've ever seen (am used to it now though). We went straight to bed but it was hard to sleep after all the excitement. We only got 5 hours cos we had to get up to go to alexandria. We visited all the sights there with a tour guide and the next day we were on our own. We caught a tram to the fort which is where the light house used to be and walked around there taking photos. We had a policeman give us a tour. Saw lots of interesting things, we got a horse and his driver to take us to the library next which was very big and nice. I have a lot of photos of everything which i will get up somewhere soon. We then found a nice "expensive" restaurant and had a great meal. It's hard to find a good place to eat here, everything is so dirty and doesn't look healthy but the meal last night was great.

Today we come back to Cairo and went to look for food and met a local guy who spoke good english so we got him to take us to a nice place for lunch. we had a popular local meal then he took us to his cafe for egyptian tea. he was very nice and liked us cos it helped him practice his english. He then took us to his cousins shop who tried to sell us art, then his brothers shop who tried to sell us perfume. He was very nice though and we weren't bothered again and again when we said no to things. Unlike the taxi drivers and various others who don't give up on trying to take us places. It can get annoying and tiring. Better send this now because i don't have much more time here. Feel free to reply if you like. Not home sick yet though so not too bothered if you don't.

Glenn