Another day in Aswan. Julia, Stanley and Eowyn all woke up a little recovered from the illnesses that had pestered them, though the lack of strength remained. Niels was therefore once again requested to finalize the paperwork in order for us to reclaim our vehicle, while the others visited the tourist police to arrange for the police escort that could hopefully bring us to Abu Simbel and on to Luxor. Oddly enough, no one at the tourist police spoke anything but Arabic. They were able to phone someone who spoke English who could give us the information we required.
Niels' administrative day 2
This could be an exciting day since we can get our vehicles back! Carlo and I were picked up from the hotel at 9 am, probably we have to do a lot before everybody goes for lunch. After the 5 stops from yesterday, number 6 was again the Traffic Police were Carlo and I waited patiently outside at the back. The Policeman turned out (strangely enough Mahmoud did not this) to be Christian and on Sunday's he had to be in church till 10 am. Thus time for Shay and back to the waiting outside the office. So far we only had to pay 50 EP for something at the police. The next stop was at the government insurance building, where we again were waiting for something important… Then it became time to get back to the police station for stop number 8 where we had time to eat some nice shoarma. Stop 9 brought us back to the insurance office for paying 511 EP for the insurance all in Arabic. Back to the police for picking up the plates and finally by 14am we arrived at our cars where we could make ourselves useful for the first time today by mounting our new license plates on the cars! You would think this can be done more efficiently, but this just is the procedure…