Thursday, July 30, 2009

Aswan - not recommended, even for the most intrepid of travellers!

We are saddened to have to report our unhappiness with Aswan. This will be done through the medium of some letters we planned out whilst sitting for 3.5 hours in 40 degree heat to get into our hotel room:

Dear Grandpa,

Thankyou for your advice about trust in relationship to Egypt. You will, no doubt, be unsurprised to know that things have not changed since you were here in the war. The locals have proved themselves to be remarkably unreliable and very flexible indeed with their concept of time. Did 1 hour really mean 3.5 hours when you were here? I'm surprised anything got done. You will be pleased to hear that we have now taken matters into our own hands and have booked a trip to Abu Simbel with an organised, Western company.

Lots of love, Clare xx


Dear President of Egypt,

Whilst we are huge fans of the female only carriage on the metro, love the lemon squash with mint and would happily sit for hours in an ahwa drinking mint tea, we would like to ask you to improve the time-keeping, reliability and general service skills of your citizens (particularly the male ones.) We are fed up of delays, times being wrong, rudeness and annoying men trying to get us to buy everything in sight.

Thank you very much,

Ms Morley & Ms Bearse

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