Egypt The land of Pyramids, camels, history and extreamly crazy drivers. We thought the Turkish drivers where bad but they are angels in comparison to the Egyptian drivers. Since the revolution January 2011 it seems there are no laws, rules or regulations and the police just are not bothered. It is a real shame for Egypt though as there are now very few tourists here as the media has portrayed the country in a bad light. We definitely were surprised if we sa...

Well we arrived in Cairo at 4pm and by 4.30 pm we were in a taxi that stunk of fuel and then 5 minues later he got a flat tyre. The taxi driver told us no problem jacked it up and replaced it with a slightly less punctured tyre but Jonny not happy with state or tyre so we got out and got another taxi. Cairo is crazy and you take your life in your own hands just trying to cross the roads, however we have found that it best to cross with the chubby locals so that ...

Turkey The land of the kebab and where woman are second class citizens. The Bulgarian Turkish border took us 2 hours to cross as we needed a visa and we needed car insurance for bringing in a car and then we needed the car stamped in my passport so that I don't leave the country without it. It took some adjusting getting used to Turkey map sizes as to me Istanbul looked close to the border but I was used to small countries like Macedonia and Bul...