Wednesday 7th of March 2007: departure to Cairo
Par bloucox le jeudi, mars 22 2007, 00:08 - Egypte - Lien permanent
After few well deserved hours, we run to go in Surcouf (the French version of PC World) to buy a memory card for my camera ( yes, Marc won't be with me and his laptop!!). Then direction the airport. The airport of Orly is crap, it doesn't have anything to do, it doesn't have shops, restau and the phone booths didn't work to make Marc able to call me. The plane took off with 30 minutes of delay. We were placed beside the wing at the window. Christelle decided to take pictures of Paris. The take off was done smoothly. There was a TV screen which showed the sight of an outside camera located in front of the plane and below the plane, therefore we could see take off like the pilot see it and if you're not close to a window you can see the fields below you. It was great. After an heavy meal, we watched The Queen. The 5 hours flight passed quickly. The arrival in Cairo was very quick. Everything was very well organized. A guide was waiting for us with our visas, the bags were already turning on the carpet when we passed the passport gate. We spent less than half an hour to go in the bus. The Cataract hotel where we spent three nights is huge. Red carpet at our arrival, there were grooms to bring the bags in the room, the hotel looks like a small village, the swimming pool was big and the rooms could contain three disco floors so much they were large. We went to bed quite quickly after a small phone conversation with Marc (there is 2h time difference with England.) Tomorrow visit of Cairo...


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