Second Day in Cairo

So, we landed here yesterday evening, and what a kerfuffle! After being unable to get a currency card at Heathrow, my owner and a friend had their bags disappear! I’m very glad I got to ride in the cabin, or goodness knows where I would be now. We are still waiting for the bags to appear, and 24 hours have now passed. I hope my owner doesn’t get malaria with no access to her medication.

After we had registered protests we then tried to get the bus into the town, but it turns out that the Arabic symbols for numbers are different to British ones! Luckily, lots of nice men helped us. The bus ride was exciting, as in Egypt there seem to be no lane markings and instead of indicators cars simply beep to show that they intend to change lane into you. People would jump off the bus in the middle of the road and run to the sides! We didn’t do that though.

We soon got good at crossing many-laned roads with no crossings on them. It still makes my heart race but no one is dead yet. The hostel is nice and the man there gave us information about what we can do. Sadly, due to prices we are limited, but we have a fun few days ahead (with no Internet). I hope they have remembered there are c.7 Egyptian pounds to the Stirling, and aren’t using a one-to-one conversion.

Today we complained to the airline, got funky student cards and had a drive around the city. We then spent a while trying to find an Internet cafe, which meant we got to go in the Hilton! There wasn’t one there, but it was a nice visit. Tonight we are going to ride camels at sunset by the pyramids, but we have to leave soon so I’d better get going.

Here’s a blurry picture of the friend I found today!  Look closely at the rear-view mirror: