Summary of Egypt

Better just start with a summary (in the style of a high school friendship book) of the 7 weeks in Egypt before I forget it:

Best thing brought: Inflatable pillow, sunglasses (otherwise my eyeballs would have dried up by now).

Worst thing brought: Comb

Best thing bought: Burka

Worst thing bought: Taxi ride without knowing the price first

Most surprising: Ginger Arabs (really, orange eyelashes and brow on one guy)

Typically Egyptian: A man with a callus on his forehead from praying saying "nice bum"

What's ok: Cat poo in piles on the stairs of an apartment building

What's not ok: Eating with the left hand

What works: Juice bars, fresh mango or pomegranite juice a day. A brilliant system of dish washing.

What doesn't work: Any government organisation during Ramadan

What I learnt: WD40 is the Nectar of the Gods, I also learnt that all those letter 'r's that I leave off the end of words actually get used where a word ending in a vowel is next to a word starting with a vowel... so I can say: "Chinar and Canadar ae countries with cas." and I still use the correct amount of 'r's.

What I learnt to do: Cross motorways, lane by lane... don't like it, but I do it.

I knew I was in Africa when: I used my lovely precision slanted edged bevel tipped eyebrow tweezers to remove small stones from my flip-flops.