Flight delayed. It’s our 1st time on a full service flight for vacations and travels, pretty excited about the inflight entertainment and airline food, haha. But hell, I can’t believe our bad luck. The entertainment system broke down, and barely restored after 2 hours with only audio and video broadcast. Got to watch Juno though, the American humour is so ticklish I got a Brit annoyed, tsk tsk.
BA food is pretty good, Eve and Zhenqiang (ZQ) don’t think so. Maybe it’s just me liking airline food, heh. Had a gin tonic to down with dinner.
Cairo is a very strange city. So surprised to see chauffeurs and travel agents allowed in customs area. Banks (ie money changers) are located before customs, and we had to buy visas in USD from a bank (?). The visa is actually just a flashy sticker, and I still wonder why we pay banks for it. Once out of airport, the touting is just pure madness. Lucky we know the price range for getting to city centre, otherwise would have been leeched like mad. Got a deal for 45 LE in the end, though the middleman/agent seemed to fool the driver into ferrying us for 45 LE. Kinda realised that in Egypt, it’s a dog-eat-dog world. Networking and multilinguistic ability are more important than any other skill I think. Sounds like China =X
Cairo nightlife is vibrant. Even past midnight, shops are still opened and lotsa people walking about. Armed police presence is everywhere, probably due to the 2005 bombings in Sharm El Sheikh. Our hostel is next to a Jewish Synagogue, so full of police guarding. Should be very safe, tsk tsk. But our hostel is on the 6th storey! Worse still, there was an old man guarding the lift and stingy as we are, we refuse to engage the lift so as not to pay baksheesh (tips) to the old man. Climbed the stairs for all the time we were there, what a joke.
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