After an exhausting day exploring the Egyptian Museum, the Pyramids, the Sphinx AND a Papyrus Paper Shop, we packed and went to the train station to get onto our transport to the south! At last, at about 10:30pm, the train pulled up and we all clambered on board, squeezing through the narrow seat isles with 12kg bags in tow and Egyptian men staring at us. All stuff that highly amuses me because everyone else gets so uncomfortable! After a few minor hitches with other people having to move from the seats (as per usual) we started to settle into our 16 hour train ride, going at about 40mph I might add. The state of the train proved to unsettle some so I made it my point to go to the 'dreadful' loos first (which of course
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