Summoning.....Milhouse! (and anyone with experience of Cairo Airport)
Sep 8th 2011, 7:08 pm
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Re: Summoning.....Milhouse! (and anyone with experience of Cairo Airport)
rumours that egypt stopping visas on arrival - will devastate tourism (even more)
Sep 12th 2011, 12:00 pm
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Re: Summoning.....Milhouse! (and anyone with experience of Cairo Airport)
I believe that Egyptian taxi drivers are some of the most highly skilled in the world. I cannot even begin to understand how they roll a fag, talk to the person behind them (while looking at them in the eye), beep the horn, tune the radio, flick between full acceleration and full breaking, and scream at people in the road all at the same time. It's amazing.
And they do all that for an hour for about 2 quid. I always take taxis over our company driver - it's just more fun.
Welcome to Egypt...
And they do all that for an hour for about 2 quid. I always take taxis over our company driver - it's just more fun.
Welcome to Egypt...
One rule which I learned in Egypt--and which I rarely break even in civilised places--is that the only place to sit in a taxi or chaffeured car is in the back, behind the passenger seat, with the seat belt fastened. Why behind the passenger seat? So that you can see the bastard driver falling asleep and yell at him when required. If there's no-one in the front passenger seat then I'll remove the headrest, too, so that I can see what's coming. On one trip from Alex to Cairo, early in the morning, in fog, the bloody driver fell asleep, seconds before a jack-knifed artic carrying steel beams loomed out of nowhere, stretched across all lanes. That was 20-odd years ago and the incident is still crystal-clear in my mind.
