Guess what I'm supposed to be doing?

yep, it's a free day on the tour and I am "working".

Well, I do have the research books open at the right pages and a pen on the desk, so as far as I'm concerned I am working. I don't have the distraction of making myself cups of tea, but I may just phone room service for some coffee.

Okay, coffee ordered, back to blogging (I have a 24 hour wireless access card).

As the tour goes, so far so good. Our guide, Ramy, is very young (probably about 28, but seems young to me), very tall and VERY pretty, so all the ladies in the group are very happy, and he seems happy enough to defer to me and let me boss everyone around, which is making me power-crazed and happy, so as I said, so far so good.

The only real drawback is the weather; freezing fog in the mornings, which clears around 9.30/10am, but it's still pretty hazy. The one big advantage of this is that the city is completely hidden in the groups photos of the giza pyramid complex, aside from that it's a pain in the arse. But, it's our last day in Cairo and hopefully the weather will be good as we travel further south.

In 3 days we've managed an entire day at the Egyptian Museum (unheard of amongst the guides), Step pyramid, Bent pyramid, Red pyramid, Giza pyramids, Hetepheres pyramid, one mastaba tomb, boat museum, Sphinx, Khafre valley temple. Not bad. having said that my legs are screwed from clambering arse-backwards down a 90cm high, 62m long descending chicken run into the Red Pyramid. And then back up again. On the plus side, it doesn't smell half as bad as it used to.

Right, off to do some work now. Will try to blog again once I am back online, maybe in a couple of days!