Roughing It In Alex And Having A Cold One
We’ve today left the hospitality of Cairo and are back on our own. We’ve managed to find a place outside the University to sleep and a guy is watching the car (at least we hope he is).We didn’t get chance…
Visas Taxis Accidents And Justice
We put our passports into the Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo. A 24 hour process and it doesn’t seem to matter when you put them in they are ready at 2pm the next day. They wanted the sudan Visa in our…
Egyptian Hospitality
Tonight we are agin treated to a meal with our host. His Brother and Sister in Law have come along to meet us as we are becoming quite famous i think. they also all want to come along on the…
Out Of Africa Actually Into Africa
Just a few photos and a quick message. We’ve found a very nice Englishman who’s Egyptian and lives here. He’s a Doctor and has give us a lot of pointers. Thanks to him we are currently parked on his drive…
Oil Av Some Of That
First garage…..£5000E for 5 litres,,,,second garage £97E for 5 litres……Slightly different type but i don;t suppose there was actually that much difference in price. Tourist rates !So we now have an almost complete stock of fuels again.
Night Crawlers
In more ways than one. Julie has been bitten all over by what we presume is Mosquitoes,,, and for the first time ever i’m showing signs of bites. This is a first for me. So hopefully they don’t carry anything…
A Fool And His Tools Part 2
Took a while to get back online and get time to continue. Sorrywhen the customs dance was over we filled up with Diesel having spent 13 days in Jordan on only one tank of fuel. Its a small country. We…
A Fool And His Tools
are easily parted….We have been robbed. Nothing too serious but my Axe and Impact screwdriver have been taken on the ferry from Aqaba to Nuweiba. I’d mistakenly left the rear door unlocked and when we returned to the car after…
Why Oh Why Did We Move
Last night we moved just down the road from the hotel. This was a good move for the Pub but a bad move for the noise. The road noise we can put up with but at about midnight the disco…
Our Water Is Flowingwere Both Incontinental
Today we pulled a fast one. Well, not really fast but more of a slow con. We slept outside the Intercontinental 5 star resort last night. The road is a dead end and we parked up pretty early and got…
Wadi Rum
Something i’d been looking forward to was this place called Wadi Rum…no idea why but Julie knows as its in the Lonely Planet. This is a very large deset area with some great rocks in the middle. You can see…
Petrafied How Much
You’ve got to be kidding……its 60jod to get in,,,,EACH !!!! that for the uneducated is £50 ish….admittedly the ticket is for 3 days but the one day ticket is 50jod so not much cheaper. you just have to pay it…
Cruising Karak By Land Rover
Poor little Matilda has never seen such hills than the ones on Jordan. I nearly had to go into low ratio to get up to the castle car park. This isn’t helped byt the fact they pull out on you…
Amman A Woman And A Salty Drink
We stayed in Amman another day to get Matilda an eye operation. She now has left hand drive lights. They are soooo much better and will be much safer on the African roads. These were tested to the extreme as…
Air Jordan
The air quality in Amman in terrible so we are going back for antoher try. Upon arrival in Jordan we went to Jerash into a hotel which the Dutch team paid for (a thank you for the help, very nice).…
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