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Topic: Any1 been to egypt ?????

has any1 been ?
what did you think, as im thinking of going in june but dont know that much about it.

what hotels did u stop in and would u recomend it ?


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Player in the making!!!!!

Tegipt? Aye! Booked it, packed it....

Lived in Alexandria for 4 years in the 80's and spent quite a bit of time in Cairo then as well. Still travel to Egypt occasionally for a few days at a time in connection with work.

I would rather sew myself up inside a dead camel than have a free holiday in either Cairo or Alexandria.

If you must do Cairo, fly in, check out the Central Museum in the afternoon, do the sound and light evening show at the Giza pyramids, nip up to the Valley of The Kings next day and then get out. It is a shithole full of shake hands and count yer fingers lying lecherous scum. How they went in such a very short time from being 2,000 years ahead of the rest of the world in civilisation to being several hundred years behind and to becoming the place where God would stick the world's enema pipe, is beyond me, but they have.

Some of the Egyptian Red Sea resorts are good enough if you are into water sports and scuba diving etc.

Any other questions?

backtolife fails his interview for the egyptian tourist board

"sew myself up in a dead camel" - class

sham el shak is the place i was looking to go to

been to Cairo myself!!!!! brilliant.....

Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada are pretty much ok down Red Sea way Jumpshot

Joking apart......I did find the time to visit the site of the Battle of El Alamein whilst living in Alexandria. It's located a few hours drive in a westerly direction along the coast towards the border.

In the midst of all the Egyptian squalor, lying and cheating it was quite moving to see the way the graves of the Brit and other soldiers are still tended and kept in perfect condition by the graveyard employees and there is an aura about the place. I managed to find and lay flowers on the grave of an old friends grandfather there and to take photographs for him and these seemed to make him quite emotional when he received them back in Uk, though he was a pretty hard bitten and cynical old pool player and gambler.

There is a small war museum at the site and the preserved examples of the tanks they used are mind boggling. Like tiny little empty soup cans. It must have taken a special kind of courage to sit in one of those flimsy little mobile ovens in the oppressive desert heat knowing that any kind of hit would probably spell out a horrible fiery death.

Right enough of the soppy trash.......that typical lying, cheating, conniving Egyptian grocer Mohammed Al Fayed is doing my brain in this week....take the bazza with you when you go Jumpshot