Day 119... Hmm Kenyan Airways - 23rd October

Slept all day and watched shit movies while Nathan spent the day with Mohamed getting odd jobs done. We were going to see the step pyramids, but I am still pretty crook. Its really disconcerting when you realise you have no control over your body. I have started to smell 'not like me' while in Egypt, and today my body has been releasing the most rankest farts I have ever experienced. And its from me! I have never, ever, smelt anything like it. When it first happened, I threw up - hence not going to the step pyramids. Fucking lasagna is all I have to say. And I thought it the safest option. Nathan ate it too though, and he's not sick. I just think I can't stomach this country any more. Which is really sad coz I have been enjoying myself. I want to get better so I can go and explore dammit!

So, there I am lying in bed. Nathan went and posted some stuff back home. He got knocked back by Fedex in case our cheap alabaster obelisk was actually real, so he had to find another post office. Drove around some dodgy areas of town, and also through the 'ritzy' area, which he said was still dusty and run down. Downtown Egypt he says, was the closest area toa modern city Egypt could come up with, but it was still crappy and Egyptianised. This surprised us, as we expected something a bit flashier, seeing as there are so many millions of tourists coming here each year. Then he helped Mohamed design a business card et al.

Later in the evening we went to the airport to catch the Kenyan Airways flight to Kenya. We sat there. And sat there. And sat there some more. Finally at 2.30am they decided the plane was broken and shuttled us here and there (and didn't explain anything! We didn't know if we were catching another flight, going to a hotel, going somewhere else...) we finally got some info off a guy who spoke Egyptian andhe explained that we were being sent to a nearby hotel. Everyone was pretty tired and I was sick of smelling the Kenyan football team. - they were so RANK! A really sour sweat smell that had a radius of about 4 metres around each one. We waited outside to get shuffled onto a shuttle bus. A lady had a baby so we stepped back to let her on. Then it was a free for all! I got jostled and elbowed out of the way by a dozen sweaty Kenyans so I had a tantrum, threw my arms about and elbowed my wait out of the crowd. I barked that I was going to wait like a civilised person. Then Nathan and I watched the shuttle bus take off, as we were the only two people who couldn't fit on it. So we had to wait another 1/2 with no explanation before we finally got to our hotel.

It was a Movenpick hotel, and would have been enjoyable apart from the fact that we had no bags so we couldn't brush our teeth, or swim in their pool or anything. Very frustrating. Went to sleep around 4am.