So, that's it. Egypt surpassed all my hopes and expectations by a long shot, not just in the places but the food, my friends, the language and the people. In just a month I have met so many new and genuinely lovely people from?all over the place including the US, Germany and Aguza (that was my local district), learned the basics of an incredible language and travelled from the Sinai peninsular to Abu simbel a few kms from the Sudanese border. You see a completely different way of life, but then you realise that it is the same as back home - people are living their lives regardless of any goofy tourists sticking their cameras in where they are not wanted, or dressing inappropriately (and I have seen sooooooo much of that I feel embarrassed for all western countries - it is a conservative country, so no backless, strapless, above the knee, tight, low cuts clothing. please). The hum drum continues, and for them it is the way their life goes, nothing unusual about it.? Who cares if in?Britain they drink their tea with milk, that they don't pray several times a day or dress in gallabeas?

And what's more, the culture is so much more open and friendly, all you need to do is give a greeting and before you know it you are drinking tea outside their cafe or invited to their house for dinner. And most of the time it's not some cynical ploy to get money or custom, it's just people being interested. We could learn a lot from this methinks.

Of course nothing is perfect, every place has its problems. There is poverty and a surplus of plastic bags and a slightly dodgy history on human rights. But no one's perfect. Anyway what I wanted to say is that I want to come back here as soon as possible, more than any other country I have visited so far. And that is that.