Been out here just over a week now, and in this time I have already travelled Cairo to Aswan (12 hours on an overnight train) and Aswan to Luxor (3 days on a mozzie ridden felucca/sail boat journey). The trip so far has been really cool, but not exactly roughing it (well apart from the felucca, but more about that later) we've been staying in hotels with pools and doing all your typical Egyptian sightseeing (Abu Simbel, Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, Kom Ombo Temple) which is all very nice, but once you\'ve seen one, you\'ve seen them all. Far more interesting and culturally enlightening is the experience of being out in the streets, where the kids think nothing of following you asking for Baksheesh (money) and stroking yours arms, we\'re still trying to figure out what to do to them to get them to piss off and this morning I tried jumping at them yelling "rarrgghhh" it was a pretty successful tactic and one that gave us a bit of a laugh! The bargaining for goods is also a time you need to keep your wits about you as the Egyptians almost always try to rip you off, some guys tried to charge some of us 3 quid for an ice lolly, we got him down to 50 pence by telling him he was taking the piss and leaving the shop! Starting to get the hang of this haggeling lark! Now the most fun and least fun part of the trip so far was definitely the three days on the felucca from Aswan to Luxor, imaging it lazing around all day and all night under a canopy in the sun, taking a dip in the Nile to cool off, being served your food three times a day.. bliss huh? Until on the first night we drifted off into the Nile and were nearly turned over every 15 minutes by a passing cruise liner churning up the river (the Nile's really not that wide folks, we were lucky to be more than 5 meters away from the cruisers a lot of the time).. Than the second night we managed to moor up at the most mosquito infested bank you could imagine! At lasts count I had approx 90 mozzie biteson my hands, feet, legs and face!! Including one on the end of my nose, much to my fellow passengers amusement! Anyhow, the third and final night on the boat was passable. I won't go to much into the bathroom facilities on the boat, but suffice it to say the farmers along the nile got an eyeful of more than they bargained for during those three days.