11th October 2009 – Day 13 – Cairo, Egypt
As M wrote her thesis and Ruben and Natalie disappeared off to the Egyptian museum and the Khan al-Khalili souq, I pondered what to do. Walk around by myself? Go to the French consulate to start the Sudan visa process? Join Ruben and Natalie? This pondering process ended up taking the best part of a day and by the time I came to my senses I was already sitting on a bench in the hostel drinking beer and the sun had gone down. Ah well. The last 12 days have been pretty hectic and it’ll do me some good to have a lazy day.
In the evening, we go to ”Café Riche” in an extravagant show of opulence before throwing Ruben and Natalie into a taxi bound for the airport and wave goodbye to them – they’re heading back to Europe. M and I are going to have to face the next 4 months travelling alone and with only each other for company – let’s see who comes off better out of that one :) Having Ruben and Natalie around has been good – I don’t think we really have the same travelling style but we’ve seen a lot and have some good fun together and it’ll be strange to head off without them. We head back to Dahab Hostel for further beer for me, and further thesis for M. These days are starting to get strangely monotonous, aren’t they ?
This is the first day of my new life without sandals. The previous ones had a stench so engrained to them that I put them into an incinerator in Alexandria, and their presence in the city will probably poison the water supply there for years to come.
12th October 2009 – Day 14 – Cairo, Egypt
1) M continues writing thesis
2) T packs bags and then proceeds to abuse Egyptian jungle juice.
The plane departs to Bahrain at the end of an extremely long day at 4.45am. We pay the taxi driver EP50 for an extra hour's wait when MS Word starts to act up on M on the last minute before supposed sending of the G. The G still does not get sent from Cairo the same night.
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