The rip of taxi driver and the bus journey to sharm

We got up at 9 and asked the hotel owner to book us a taxi to the station. He flagged one down and told us to pay him £20egp no more. We headed to the bus station as he weaved in and out of traffic in his lada special, he nearly smashed us into a garbage truck at an intersection too. I was sporting my sunglasses italian style in my v-neck t-shirt it was when we were in the taxi i realised that i had lost them damn, they were prescription too! We eventually got to the main bus station, when we got out of the taxi, the driver pointed to the back seat , the seat had scratches on then he was trying to blame copey, i just told him we didnt do it, gave him the £20 egp then walked off. Con artist, he didnt protest so obviously he was just after a fast buck. we passed through some security points and booked a ticket, it was 10am and the first bus was 3pm, we had a long day ahead of us. We thought we could pass the time at the cinema there but it looked like it hadnt been built yet! We sat down on the chairs outside gate 8 and waited....

We waited for hours and copey managed to piss a local guard off by constantly asking, is this our bus? Needless to say it wasnt when it did turn up the guard waved us other and said the one at the end. We boarded the coach and a women told us to get comfy on the back row, she was the tea lady so obviously was after some cash from us but we had already brought what we needed!

There were a few security stops on the way, the first one was just a guy who said hello nationailty, we said british and he said welcome and let us go. The last checkpoint was at sharm el shiekh over 7 hours later, the guard got on sporting his pistol and asked us for our passports he took one quick look and passed it to us. It was 10:30 now and we got off the bus and grabbed our bags quickly before someone else did. A guy said do you need taxi, we said yes, he said where you going and then said come on trying to grab my bag, i said no how much, he said £50egp i said no too much and we got it down to £40egp still way over but it was late. We then followed him to his taxi, well it wasnt a taxi the cheeky git was picking his wife up from the bus stop. It didnt take long to get to ahora hotel when we got out he stood over his boot and demanded the money, copey handed him thr £40egp. He then asked where mine was , what we agreed 40 for the trip, i quickly reached my bag out of the boot while he was pestering copey for 50 now. We just told him no and eventually wandering into the hotel to check in.