Our trip is full, all couples and all Australian. I’ve been keeping a list of Aussie words and phrases that capture the “strangeness” of their relative isolation from the rest of the English-speaking world. The group makeup also shows Australia’s uniqueness: two Chinese couples, one half-German couple, and one half-Malaysian couple. We visited the really famous pyramids that are located just outside (across a street!) the city of Cairo mingling with a crush of tourists, Egyptian and foreign. The pyramids are more impressive than the ones we saw earlier, but are crowded with tourists, touts, camels, horses - and with children running in the deep, loose sand as they train for soccer. Tom had his first camel ride. Did you know that there are actually nine pyramids in this area, not just the big three? You
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