Boredom and the Art of Waiting

I wouldn’t think it would happen so soon, but tonight we are hit by a good old portion of boredom. .Why? We are in Alexandria now, have been here for 5 days now. We are waiting. For custom clearance of the car. The car that has been sitting in the harbour for 3 days. Days are short because people leave at 14:30 to get home in time for the curfew (what, you live 500 miles away or something?!), so our hussle guy needs more of them.

Alexandria is an interesting city at first sight, but really, if you don’t have any business or family here, it’s not worth a visit.

 

What doesn’t help, is that we have chosen to save Connies luxury hotel points for worse (read: broke) times or in case of emergencies. So we left the Hilton, said goodbye to that beautiful suite with stunning military road block view, and checked into a hotel that might star in a horror movie. The bathroom actually looks a bit like that in the movie Saw. Toilet paper was an extra I had to ask for and we definitely got downgraded to the ‘non-luxury’ floor.

Hehe and sometimes we smell a bit Nargileh from the men beneath us coming through the window, since we are directly over a men-only cafe.

It is the real Egyption style, I guess. Now for us luxury-lovers the real travelling begins!

Today we waited 5 hours at customs with all our bags because we expected that we’d nail the paperwork, but without success. No but seriously, we need to get that car tomorrow or we will get mad here. We can’t handle another day with emission gas cocktails, plastig bags-filled ocean and being denied access to some cafes and even taxis. I’m actually playing minesweeper here, you guys…

 

Tommorrow will be the day that we are on the road again! Hopefully… 🙂