6 April 2010 An interesting experience tonight. We bought some alcohol for our feluca trip tomorrow. As most of you know, muslims don’t drink, although it is available at some places but very limited. So, I haven’t had a drink at all and Tim had a beer at dinner in the restaurant. We were told we could get some drinks at the duty free shop near our hotel. This shop was actually a white goods shop, and upstairs a small area for grog, no shop front as such, and away from the public eye. There were about 8 guilty looking muslim customers up there buying beer. All young and I image the cool set. We bought a small bottle of scotch, labelled ‘Johnny Waler’ for 15 Egyptian pounds (approx $3) - Bargain! To be honest, I
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