We had final packing and good-byes to our favorite Giselle crew members. I really think they will be sorry to see our group go, we were a lot of fun and we included the crew in that fun when they were around.
We left at 8:00 a.m. for our flight back to Cairo and were at the Marriott Hotel by noon. Habibi had given Les the address of the Cairo Harley Shop and he was anxious to check it out! We took a cab to the haven of all Harley riders. The store was very HD traditional in look - a few bikes in the showroom (and yes...for our HD reader friends, the prices are the same as in Canada), and upstairs the boutique - clothing and stuff! Les dearly wanted a t-shirt from Cairo and so we looked...and we looked...and we looked...and...we found the largest t-shirt in the store...just barely big enough for me... Sadly, we left the store without a shirt for my big guy! We decided to walk back to the hotel, just to walk off the blues, and had another great look at the insanity of Cairo. We had almost forgotten the traffic, the smog, the huge numbers of people.
We enjoyed a nice mid-eastern dinner under the stars at the Egyptian Nights Restaurant in the hotel''s courtyard with Helen and Ian (we love this couple and will definitely keep this friendship alive), Les of course enjoyed his sheesha after dinner.
Tidbits from today:
- we have had sunshine and the blue skies everyday of our tour - only the one day of iffy weather and even that wasn't so bad
- our cab ride to the Harley shop was an experience - it's one thing to be in a big bus and going through the streets of no rules, but it's quite another to be at street level in a little cab - the "merging", the horns, the crazy turns...insane!
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