Roller DISCO - Vauxhall

Hillarious - just like skate world but bit darker - lights and people - and bit different music and added alcohol and a little bit too close to Brixton - hence the three security checks on the way in and the confiscation of chewing gum . now i know how my kids feel!
Managed to stay off my bum ! Yay! But definitely not easy as i remember it to be!
Me and Mon (with brown hair to confuse you)

Egypt - With Go Bus Egypt

This is by far the best time i have ever had in my life! Nothing was disappointing and everything superceded expectations; The group, the accomodation , the amount of things we did, the stuff i learned, the experiences i had, the sites, the food, the friends made, the tour guide, the locals - absolutely evrything!
Gutted i had to go in the end - could easily live there for a while! Even sail the nile on the felucca for a good few months. I even washed in it! Crazy!
You can see by the look of my room for my first night (only me in it) that we had tastes of luxury in between peeing in the bushes of the deserts!

This is the group in our local sheeshe hand out room in the hotel. Mostly aussies and kiwis with an english rose and a token canadian. It was nice not to be the token for a while. ALot of r rolling by the NZers but i got used to that by the end. I was roomed with Katie ( in the pinkish hoody) and we got along so well - fellow teachers and even with same agency : ) Her group adopted me in and we slowly got bigger as more arrived in the next few days.


















The Nile cruise dinner with local entertainers, slightly b grade but amusing none the less....













The visiting of sites started very quickly with alot of early morning rises but it meant we beat crowds and didnt get too hot. In cairo i learned alot about the religions and we visited a very impressive mosque. Standing at a crypt where Jesus sought refuge with his family from the romans - very eery and inspiring. THere were alot of references to the connections between the deciples and the egyptian beliefs which was very conspiracy theory. loved it.

The Pyramids of Giza

The nile : )






















OUtside the amazing Egyptian museum where there are amazing artefacts jam packed! Heaps of mummies and a shady guy acting as a tour guide. Watch out for that. All the jewels of tuenkahmen and the crazy tombs. Massive place! And all that is not here - you can see in the British Museum - hillarious! Or sometimes france cos some itallian dude gifted a few of his discoveries : )

Down the back streets of the bazaar - the deeper the darker but less haggling so it was nice.











































It is crazy to be driving along the crazy roads of Egypt and see htese massive pyramids in the distance. THey are on the horizon of various views around Cairo. ALthoug there was a bit of 'they are not as big as i thought they were' syndrome - as per Stonehenge. they were definitely very amazing to stand next to and sit on.


Some of the tour group taking a never again photo op.













The camels were very pretty looking but the leering men on top made the idea of a trip around the pyramids - none too appealing.

The Egyptian sights

The legendry sphinx - not quite as big as i thought though still impressive - i came i saw i left - very cute little boys making a living very early around it - lost a few bracelets by the time i walked through them - they were just so cute - couldnt help myself - bought e few bookmarks for the kiddies too.
On the way to Philae Temple- another relocated one -take apart and put on another island a few hundred metres away - craziness!
We crammed so many sites into our days - it was amazing and everyone so different and cool!Yet so the same.

Walking like the Egyptian

Smoking the sheesha under the upside down moon (seriously.... it looks like a smiley face in the sky!)

My new friend Mr Adel perfume man who gonna put me up when i come back! he the coolest.
The high dam that Egyptians built to protect all their temples - third biggest in the world, impressive considering all other lack of development around!

Sailing the nile

Saeeds home town of Aswan and the Abu Simbel Temples. Marty, Katie, me and Keri. Sporting some stylish go bus egypt fashions !

The Aswan markets where Marty was told he was lucky every two seconds for having four wives. Even so they offered him their mothers in law and grandmothers! heehee
massive i tell u! And us damned christians destroying parts all over the place!

What was meant to be the yuckiest most dreaded part of the tour, turned out to be a definite highlight! It helped that i had emptied my guts on the overnight train the morning before we got on - but it was honestly so so relaxing and surreal. NOt so much for the girls with Egypt bowels but even that added top the excitement and conversation.

The felucca was topless by day and walled and rooved by night to keep out the chills.

Our captains ( Bob and Sadat) cooked us breakfast, lunch and dinner between joints and washed our dishes in the nile : ) Its ok, Saeed and Sadaty showed us that drinking from the nile was no biggy! And honestly it was ten times clearer than our manky Waikato river.