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Monday 4th June 2007. It seems so long ago now that my Dad drove me to London for the start of my first holiday without them. I’d somehow convinced Andy, a friend from University, to travel with me to Egypt with a week in Cairo and a week in Alexandria. I’d stepped off the plane in darkness, to an uncomfortable heat, a bustling city, and a language and alphabet completely foreign to me. There woul …
Our final day of exploration in Alexandria - we'd had plans to see so much; but me being ill had restricted it greatly.
Although still not feeling great, we took the time to look around the expansive Montezah Palace gardens.
Following a few days of illness, we moved on from Cairo to Alexandria to struggle around what remained.
A bit wiser about how to navigate the streets of Cairo, we returned once more in order to look around the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.
Exploring Cairo meant a lot of lessons to be learnt that neither of us had expected.
The start of an adventure in Egypt - we had no idea what would lay ahead of us.
