Arrival

It was a 20 minute drive to the airport van service, 2 hour ride to Pearson, 3 hour wait for takeoff, 7 hour to Frankfurt, 2 hour stopover, 4 hour flight to Cairo….and voila! EGYPT. Easy-peasy. I did stand on the sidewalk for a few minutes outside the terminal waiting for the school principal to arrive, but I enjoyed getting to know the local taxi drivers a little better.  Not to keep you in suspense…I did not in fact want a ride from any of the 30 or so nice men that offered.

It turns out that at that time of night Alexandria is a 3.5 hour drive from the Cairo airport.  That translates to:

·         3 H&M’s(although I have been assured that there were many more I couldn’t see from the highway) and 1 Ikea (I have been assured that this is the only location in the country). 

·         For history and geography buffs- that’s 4 pyramids and one bridge over the Nile. 

·         For the rest of us that was 2 cars and 1 motorcycle headed the wrong way on the Alexandria bound side of an 8 lane divided highway.

Things have been very busy and structured so far. My apartment is great.  My roommates(cockroaches) have been evicted and now it is just me. More to come on my apartment, but I hope that this is the last you will hear about the other subject.