Holiday in Egypt

[Lucifer Box]

Egyptian "Are you British?"
Me "Yes"
Egyptian "Lovely Jumbly Eee-by gum mate, Asda Price"

Those Egyptian hawkers are fantastic. They can switch between English, German, French, Italian and Japanese in one sentence. It is well worth buying their tat just for the entertainment value.

If your tour takes you to the temple of Hatshepsut, you will have plenty of opportunity to see the bloodstains where all those tourists were gunned down in 1997. They can't clean them off because it would damage the frescos. Mind you, the security guards nowadays pretty much out number the tourists.

[EternalOptimist]

Mad donkey

if Luxor is a place you must see before you die can I suggest to do it on day one or two, just in case

[datestamp]

I'm not an agent.

In which case you won't be teflon coated, nor bulletproof, and shouldn't cruise down the Nile. They used to fire machine guns at passing boats. Not a relaxing holiday.

[Bagpuss]

Those Egyptian hawkers are fantastic. They can switch between English, German, French, Italian and Japanese in one sentence. It is well worth buying their tat just for the entertainment value.

If your tour takes you to the temple of Hatshepsut, you will have plenty of opportunity to see the bloodstains where all those tourists were gunned down in 1997. They can't clean them off because it would damage the frescos. Mind you, the security guards nowadays pretty much out number the tourists.

I didn't see any security, maybe they just turn up with the coach tours. We just hired a taxi for the day and went when the coaches didn't. Missed the blood stains too, maybe your tour guide was a little sadistic?

Interestigly the fastest growing religion in Egypt was coptic Christianity quite a few of the traders have chritian names "Lucky George" being one example. I wonder what happened to those guys since 11/9.

[Francko]

Me and the missus have been there

You mean you and the guy with the shorts, right?

[Crazyhorse]

If your tour takes you to the temple of Hatshepsut, you will have plenty of opportunity to see the bloodstains where all those tourists were gunned down in 1997. They can't clean them off because it would damage the frescos. Mind you, the security guards nowadays pretty much out number the tourists.

It'll probably be small beer for my lad considering the PC games he plays! There's a thought, is there anyway of increasing your HP before you go?

[EternalOptimist]

does anyone want to hear my camel joke ?

[Crazyhorse]

does anyone want to hear my camel joke ?

Go on , spit it out

[EternalOptimist]

spit it out ?

you've already heard it then

[EternalOptimist]

Lawrence of Arabia gets a note from the foreign office – ‘Attack Akabar’ . So he checks his maps and sees that its 300 miles across the sandy desert. ‘Its not possible’ – he says to the team, ‘a camel can only do 200 miles without water’.
‘Not true’ says Abdul, ‘meet me at the Oasis tomorrow at dawn and I will show you’

So Abdul turns up at dawn leading a camel and holding a tent peg. He knocks the tent peg into the ground and ties the camel so its mouth is in the water. Abdul then goes round the back of the camel and pulls its b*llocks from between its legs.

Abdul starts searching the ground till he finds two large round stones then runs up behind the camel

‘WHACK’
‘SLUUURRRPPP’

‘F*ck me !’ shouts Lawrence ‘doesn’t that hurt?’

‘Only if you get your thumbs caught’