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 comple...

feluccas are fun, as long as you don't get ripped off and as long as you do not sink. We went first to Luxor and ate bananas at banana island predictably and cycled to Karnak. that was rather good fun I say old chap. We also hung out at a crazy hostel that had a fixation with Bob Marley and Black American rappers and hanging empty cans from the roof of the outside terrace......You know I said that I feared lack of fruit juice here? Well I take it all back, ev...

erm, "studying' well it's over. Luxor and Aswn tomorrow

well it'sbeen a couple of weeks.......yes I made it to Egypt and I am now sitting on our apartment balcony using the internet that Will's laptop is picking up from somewhere - we're not quite sure.Into my second week of studying and wishing that I had longer, as always. Lessons are four days a week, and the rest of the time we are supposed to study, but true to my nature, I'm not really but I promise I shall do some immediately after typing this, ...