Two Thumbs
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yup. me too. its nasty.
and actually Cairo is way worse than Alexandria.
Worse?
How? Seriously. After seeing the deep blue of the Med turn to shit brown the moment we passed the breakers into the bay, I assumed the city was on the edge of plague.
krist, we watched an animals stomach slowly roll down the street to the shore and the locals didn't seem to notice.
*shrugs* I went on a Nile 'expedition' back when Cairo was just creeping up on the Giza plateau archeological complex. I remember walking to the edge of the plateau and looking maybe oh, 2 miles north to Cairo and wishing they would never get any closer, out native guide said same, but he said it will in 5-8 years max, hug the Pyramids... and he was right and heres the thing, 80% of these "suburbs" are ghettos that make our ghettos look like the Fairmont Hotels here....its as bad as India.
My only experience in Alexandria was 2 nights the Mercury hotel, which is east of trhe harbor, and I am sure it was bad, but I saw the same type of "sewage treatment"in lloret del mar and thats a big resort town...*shrugs* its all relative I guess..
Kinda funny.
Ya know how when you first pull in you want to get a drink and try some of the local food.
Well, I have no idea what Egyptian food tastes like and I'm certain most of the crew didn't either.
I was able to turn a profit buy gold chains there and selling them to new arrivals.
If they ever learned what the glyphs meant, I woulda gotten my ass kicked.
dude...
