Messing about on a River
Whee! I just spent a great few days on a felluca, which is a kind of flat-bottomed boat thing with a sail.
That’s one! We went on that anyway. It was very exciting because I got to steer for a bit.
The boat is open with a canopy over it which gets folded down during the day, and you live on there. There’s no toilets or fresh water or anything, but the nice felluca-men made us lots of strange and tasty foods, and we only got a little bit ill from ingesting Nile water!
I, along with the felluca-men (Mehmood and Tarik; they did have names), learnt lots of new songs while Mummy and her friends were rowing, including the tea song and some of the less-rude –LES songs. We also learnt some Egyptian card games which are notable in the number of hours taken to complete each.
We slept on the boat under the fabric canopy, which meant lots of early starts when the sun rose and woke us all up! I had hoped to see some wildlife in the river, but when Mummy went swimming in the Nile I was glad that the crocodiles and hippos are now fenced in upstream behind the High Dam. Still, soon we’ll be going to Kenya to see lions and hippos, so I can hold on for that! Back in Cairo for a few days now with the idea of desperately sorting things out.
January 20, 2009 3:09 pm 4 Comments
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By CJ, January 20, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
Beautiful - what did it sound like, Greg? It looks very peaceful…
By half_of_monty, January 20, 2009 @ 4:20 pm
Ooooooooooooh!
By mum, January 20, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
so how did your mum go to the toilet?
lol
but i had to ask !!!!
By greg, January 22, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
Mummy just had to wait for a long time and make sure she didn’t ingest too much!