Sunday, April 20, 2008

Thursday 10 April (day 41)

Again we took a convoy this time to Hurghada. Coming to the convoy, we could neither see the start nor the end of the line of busses and placed the car somewhere in the middle. Impressive how many busses. One could think that if there was an attack on tourists it would be in a convoy like this… But once again the police drives fast out of town and along all other traffic that is stopped. Half way up the road we meet the convoy going south to Aswan and Stanley counted 109 vehicles, meaning a few thousand tourists are being moved up and down the road every day!

Lunch we had in a cosy restaurant overlooking the green-blue sea(but expensive and the name sounds like Je moet niet lullen) in Hurghada. We decided to keep on driving as far as possible and at night we stopped in Suez. There were only 2 hotel options available, the cheap one in a bad-looking neighborhood without secured parking. The not cheap option was a 3 star luxury hotel… We took the latter one and enjoyed a night of satellite TV, hot showers, etc..

 

Eowyn writes: gqfd c vbg ymn uhhvbv bbv bdrco       ooof55555kkkkk]=\\\\\\\\\\. And says now Finish.

 

In the guestbook there was a request for a birding update. Today we had a bird encounter on our way to Hurgada. Niels killed a Hoepoe… The bird flew against the front window while we drove around 90 km/h, giving it no chance. L