For one of our most memorable trips, and our first exploration of the African continent, I shouldn’t be starting this ten months after our visit, not least because I finally got my arse in gear and became engaged to my fiancée on the trip! One excuse to put off this post was the sheer amount of bloody photo’s taken, 90% of which were of some stone triangles, but I’ve managed to sift through those so I can start writing bollocks.
Overview
Cairo is the capital city of Egypt and is one of the top ten most populated cities in the world, the highest in Africa. It is worth noting early on, that whilst the Pyramids are only a 20-30 minute drive away from Cairo, they are actually based in Giza, itself a city in its own right with a population of around 9 million.
Obviously, Egypt is very hot, so going in the middle of August was a fucking masterplan. The heat was relentless at times, rising up to 35°, you really don’t notice much in the way of shade or breeze.
A lot of people may have been to Egypt for all inclusive stays at resorts such as Sharm El Sheikh. Many of these resorts are located on the red sea, bloody ages away from Cairo and the Pyramids, so a visit from these resorts will be 7 hours each way unless you can get a one-hour flight. Just make sure your coach has air conditioning, yeah?
When you think of Egypt you think of the Pyramids (sorry Mo Salah), but there are areas of historical significance throughout the country, mainly near the banks of the River Nile, the longest river in the world.
Flights and Accommodation
We booked the trip using Expedia. We used Expedia for quite a few holidays over the years, but recently I’ve noticed it can be a lot cheaper buying flights (SkyScanner) and accommodation (Booking.com) ourselves. In this case I assume the price was competitive, with some extra peace of mind. The total for British Airways direct flights from London and our hotel were £1,307. I haven’t got the breakdown but I imagine most of this price was for the flight, as I recall the hotel being very, very cheap – £14 a night rings a bell.
The hotel in Giza we used was called the “Pyramids View Inn” and offered an in-room balcony and roof terrace with TERRIFIC views of the Pyramids and Sphinx. We also enjoyed the nightly light show, avoiding the fee to otherwise enter the grounds.
The hotel was great in terms of service and location. Staff were very helpful organising trips and we also had our own driver, Ibrahim, who grabbed us from the airport and took us on day trips. Unfortunately though, our rooms air-con was useless, therefore it was ridiculously hot – unbearable in the evenings. Looking back now I don’t want to make a big deal about this as the positives outweighed this, choosing to remember the bloke who always looked so delighted to serve us breakfast on the roof terrace each morning filling us up with fruit, bread and freshly made falafels.
Giza was rather rough and disappointing outside the pyramid grounds, and further away than expected to Cairo. Bunch that with no air-conditioning, we booked the 4* Safir Hotel for 2 nights during the week in central Cairo. At around £100 per night, we had a sizeable breakfast buffet, a swimming pool and freezing air in the room!
If you visit the pyramids, I highly recommend you base yourself in Cairo and just have a day trip to the wonder of the world.
Getting Around
Cairo itself has a metro system that is currently being expanded to Giza, but at present public transport is very limited. Thankfully, outside of our day in Giza and use of Ibrahim for day trips we only relied on taxis in Cairo. We quickly remembered of this small company called ‘Uber’ who offered a great service in Cairo costing pennies per trip.
Something else important to consider, that doesn’t really fit anywhere else, is your mobile phone usage. O2 or EE offered nothing affordable, so we researched buying a SIM at the airport. There were a few options available and we were satisfied with our Orange SIM costing about £20 for 40gb of data. I think this would last for a month if needed.
Costs
I’ve already covered flights and accommodation. Food can range from dirt cheap to UK prices depending on where at what appeals to tourism. Our Nile Cruise was about 40 quid each and included a great meal, salad buffet, entertainment and hotel transfers. Entrance to the pyramids was £12-13. Crazy.
For our day trips we used the hotel and their driver. The prices on their website were extortionate compared to TripAdvisor and the like, although they were more than happy reducing their prices by over 50% to match. Alexandria drive and tour cost about £80 including a nice meal, the same as our final day dotting around some sights. A free benefit of having our driver meant we were a lot less hassled by locals.
The entrance Visa in to Egypt cost 20USD each. We tried and failed to do this online using the shit website wasting $40, but ultimately you can just walk up to a counter on arrival, pay cash and get the stamp in your passport.
Things We Didn’t Do
As I’ve called this an Egypt trip, I suppose I have to cover the whole bloody country? I’m not going to do that.
Luxor was the obvious omission, but this isn’t really doable even over 2 days given the distance. The big thing to see here are the tombs that make the Valley of Kings.
If you stay on the north coast or Red Sea there are great opportunities for diving. There is endless desert but a lot of areas are dangerous either due to climate or dodgy characters.
A new, likely to be EPIC Egyptian Museum is crawling towards completion, which will be located in Giza. After numerous delays, we were told the opening was expected to be autumn 2022, but 9 months later it still hasn’t been completed. They have however started painstakingly transporting artifacts by road from the existing museum in Cairo. I wouldn’t fancy driving precious cargo that’s 5,000 years old.
Itinerary
Day Zero – Engaged!
We arrived at Cairo airport early afternoon following our 5 hour flight. We were pleased to find our driver after a delay sorting our phones out and made the 40-60 minute drive to our hotel.
The route took us along a flyover through Cairo. I felt unsettled at the amount of people living in half-finished or half-demolished buildings.
Once we arrived in Giza there were no high rise buildings, but were treated to countless camels and horses sharing and shitting all over the road. After a few brow raising side streets we arrived at our hotel on the doorstep on the pyramids main entrance.
Due to my planned evening activities I was pleased that the room was expected, having a small balcony outside our 2nd floor room. After a quick rest and a wash we started getting ready for some food on the rooftop.
I can’t recall what exactly I said to Kay to prompt her to draw the curtain and come outside, but there I was on one knee, 10 years later than I perhaps should have, kneecap under immense pressure, asking the love of my life to be my wife.
She said yes. Obviously. She’d been banging on about it for years! Still, I felt some relief and was a very proud man.
The ring debacle itself deserves a paragraph. I tried to measure her finger a few times whilst asleep before going full fuck-it mode guessing the size. Although I ordered her (our?) ethically sourced diamond well in advance, there was a delay in sending the order. It finally arrived the evening before our trip and by then I already packed my late grandmother’s wedding ring to act as a short term backup. Ultimately it all worked out. She likes the ring more than I thought she would, which makes me smile. And she hasn’t ‘lost’ it yet!
That evening we went upstairs for some photos and food before enjoying the pyramids light up as they do every evening. The show wasn’t much to write about. I would be lying if I hadn’t already chosen my social media post to our social channels… “A wonder of the world… and some pyramids”.
Day One – Giza and The Pyramids
Well it would be rude to not to visit the Giza Plateau first thing, considering the entrance was less than a minute away from our hotel. Energised after breakfast, we arrived as the site opened (I think around 8am) and it wasn’t very busy, although we later knew that there is a separate entrance for the influx of coaches that visit constantly.
The initial incline was assisted by walking past the famous Sphinx. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. It was built around the same time as the pyramids, meaning that it’s incredibly over FOUR AND A HALF THOUSAND YEARS OLD!
You couldn’t get up too close to the lion-man thing, so we proceeded, attracted like a moth to a flame, towards the largest pyramid on site, The Great Pyramid, the only wonder of the world that has remained largely intact. I felt inferior up close to the 138 meter structure, though I didn’t start confirming it is indeed made of over 2 million blocks.
We had a walk around the pyramid, joining the hundreds of day-trippers flowing off their coaches. On one side of the pyramid you could access a chamber for a fee, although my height and width didn’t really feel suitable compared to the size and length of the tunnel. I’m not claustrophobic but I’d hate for the local fire brigade to chop the roof off to get me out!
It was around this area we started getting pestered by the locals trying to make a living, flogging anything from drinks to cheaply made souvenirs. To be honest, this was constant in Giza to the point where it could be quite distressing and off-putting. I’ve had some experience in similar situations but even I became quite frustrated after the 30th approach, going from no thank you, to a firm simple NO, to just ignoring communication attempts.
You do need to be mindful though, that a stone throw away from the Pyramids there are people and families living in poverty, it’s obvious walking around the area. You really cannot blame them for trying to put food on the table.
Anyway, it ultimately wasn’t a big deal, as we toured around the outside of the smaller Pyramid of Khafre and Pyramid of Menkaure. I thought I’d be writing a lot more about such a sight, but you can find out so much more if you want elsewhere. For us, having been in the heat for the morning and our water bottles dehydrated, we slowly headed back to our hotel for some shade before lunch.
Years before I went to Egypt, I remember being astounded by the fact there is a Pizza Hut 30 yards away form the pyramid site! Think about how many pictures you have seen, including mine, and you have been completely oblivious to the fact that if you took a photo of the pyramids from another angle, in the background you would have a huge city clearly in view! Getting such a photo confirmed Pizza Hut as our destination for lunch.
Shamefully after lunch we decided to avoid the peak temperatures in the hotel, whilst I watched the first home game of the Newport County 2022/23 season. There really wasn’t much else to see in Giza. And we lost.
That evening we searched for somewhere to have food and a little exploration of the area. We noticed there was a Marriott hotel about half hour walk away and hoped that there would be somewhere nice for tea there.
Google Maps worked really well getting us to the Marriott, but the streets it took us through certainly showed us the hidden side of Giza. I haven’t been to the favelas in Brazil, but I thought it may be similar. Rooms that I suppose were cafes of some sort had locals who could not stop staring at us in our bright clothing and Panama hats. How could we be so far off the beaten track, ten minutes away from somewhere that is visited by 14 million people a year?!
I wouldn’t say that I ever felt in danger, but it was very uncomfortable. Finally, after about 20 minutes we reached a highway that was close to the hotel, and indeed there was a restaurant nearby where we were treated to a mixed grill, some side plates and some fancy desserts, maybe totalling £30 with drinks. Ignoring the relentless honking of taxis thinking we were lost, we made our way back the way we came (I was full of food and tired at this point) in the darkness, a little more climatised to the onlookers by now.
We arrived at the hotel early enough to arrange a day trip tomorrow. We had another four nights so we really needed some things to do outside Giza, aiming to stay as little as possible hear outside the normal-ness of our hotel.
Day Two – Alexandria day trip
Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest on the Mediterranean. By road it takes around 2.5 hours, there are no trains.
Thankfully we had our hotel Driver – Ibrahim – and his old but reliable car to show us around. There wasn’t much to share in regards to the drip along the ‘Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road’, although Ibrahim did mention a prison whilst passing. I have scoured Google Maps trying to find this, and if it’s the aerial view of the “Correctional and Rehabilitation Complex in Wadi El Natroun” as I think it is, it looks more like a suburb in Desperate Housewives than a prison complex in the middle of the desert!
Anyway, we got to Alexandria. This is why I should either be writing notes or writing the blog sooner than 12 months after our visit, as remembering the names or locating the sites on a map is going to be tricky….
Our first stop was the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, easy enough to recall. Here was a small site, football-pitch size, with a few stones on exhibition that led to a circular stairway to view the catacombs themselves. Now you’ll need to research more yourself for the history lesson, but I will tell you that the tombs were only re-discovered in 1900 when a donkey fell in to an access shaft!
Considering the site is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages, you could feel a bit underwhelmed. However, remember we were ar the Great Pyramids the day before, so forgive me for making comparisons.
After a short drive through the busy city streets we next headed to…
… *fucking hell why didn’t I take a photo of a sign…*
… *gives up and Google’s things to do in Alexandria….*
The Serapeum of Alexandria. Yeah that’s it. The Serapeum was the largest and most prestigious of all temples in the Greek quarter of Alexandria.
The Serapeum was built in the 2nd century BC during the reign of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II. It was a symbol of the power and wealth of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The temple was decorated with many statues and reliefs, providing valuable insight into ancient Egypt’s history and culture.
The main sight here within this ancient Greek temple is the Victory Pillar, erected in 297 AD (AD unofficially meaning after baby Jesus).
The Serapeum was one of the most important temples of the ancient world. The Romans destroyed it, but its ruins are a reminder of the lost civilization of the Egyptians. I pinched that off a website, unfortunately the sites we visited this morning could all do with a bit more information boards. This area especially could benefit from a small audio tour, it is only now I note they also had catacombs as part of the area.
The area was also once used as part of the Great Library, which we’ll come to in a bit.
Our third stop completed the trio of ancient sites. Kom El Deka was a small neighborhood containing houses, baths, halls and a Roman theatre.
Kom el-Dikka is the largest and most complete above ground archeological site in Alexandria. It provides large amounts of archeological evidence of urban life in Roman Egypt, including early villas and their mosaics, and late Roman public works.
As you’d expect the area is today largely remains, and the theatre area has obviously been upgraded – when we visited, preparations for a concert were being installed. Thankfully this area contained a map of the site and enough information to enjoy a walk around for an hour.
Those three sites cost around £3 each to visit. We could have spent longer at all three sites but we did have a lot to fit in during the day, and knowing that we were due to visit the Library at some point, may not have appreciated the significance of the site.
The library was up next. Today the library is a modern building accommodating students and tourists alike, but the history of Alexandria and libraries are vitally important.
The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. Alexandria came to be regarded as the capital of knowledge and learning, in part because of the library.
Many important and influential scholars worked at the Library during the third and second centuries BC. Some examples of works are the first library catalog, a bloke who managed to measure the circumference of the earth (just a few hundred kilometers off – good effort!) and the inventor of the steam engine.
There is a story that Julius Ceaser burned the library during the Civil War, although there are arguments whether this was on accident, caused by the burning ships in the dockyard, or whether it was set on fire at all. I’m not getting in to that argument. I’m just thankful we have books today as nothing gives me greater joy than dusting our own little library of Mikayla’s 700+ collection.
Our final stop before lunch and our drive back was to the Citadel of Qaitbay. I’m really struggling to go in to historical detail at this point, but the fortress was built in the 15th Century. The citadel can be viewed all along the seafront and Ibrahim provided a good history lesson and significance of the site, another reason why it shouldn’t take me a bloody year to write this.
The site itself was a good visit. We walked through the courtyards and walkway along the coastal wall before entering the building itself providing pleasing views of the city and the Mediterranean. Ultimately the walk up and down the stairs may have been one too may, as from here tendonitis set in, gradually getting worse until the end of day four.
At least it was lunch next! Included in our tour price was a lunch that we didn’t think would be too much, so we were pleasantly surprised to be treated to some local fish, fresh calamari and all the trimmings!
The long drive home was not much to talk about. I remember watching Man United lose their first game of the season on the tele, and my feet were throbbing, so we were pleased to get home just before sunset, passing the yet to be completed new Egyptian museum.
The museum has faced several delays. Ibrahim mentioned they expected to open later that year in November 2022. That didn’t happen. Although seeing the caliber of British PM at the time you can’t blame them for putting off an invite.
Another issue is moving thousands of priceless artifacts from A to B. I wouldn’t want to be the driver who has Tutankhamun’s death mask on the back seat!
Day Three – To Cairo & Nile Cruise
Well done for making it this far. Very little in the way of history stuff today! Overnight we both agreed we needed a bit of luxury and to visit Cairo.
We booked our lift to Cairo and decided on a hotel. As we weren’t going to wake up to THAT view, breakfast, air con and (to heal the hooves) a swimming pool were all necessary.
We booked Hotel Safir to the east of The Nile. This came in at £100 a night but worth every penny.
We checked in early as possible and I won’t forget the absolute bliss of the air-con anytime soon – it was freezing. We ordered burgers to the room and had a chill before hobbling down for a swim. In the water I thought loosening up the joints were doing wonders but within minutes of getting back to the room the pain returned.
Feeling rather fed up and extremely worried the affect this will have on the rest of the trip, we had nap in the hope I might miraculously feel better in an hour or so.
This wasn’t the case but we had to do something. We found a Nile Cruise with dinner on somewhere like Viator that seemed a good shout at £30 each. It also provided a taxi service to the boat so walking would be minimal.
This all went to plan. I didn’t really know what I was expecting but I instantly knew this was a good shout when we boarded the boat. Shortly after setting sail we could enjoy the cold salad buffet followed by our selected meal from a number of options. It wasn’t Michelin star but was very enjoyable.
Alongside the meal and the opportunity to go outside and see the city from the Nile, the entertainment was also very good. Following a couple of singers we had this bloke who… spun around loads… lit himself up (not on fire)… spun a bit more…. Quite a spectacle and impressive.
This was followed by a belly dancer – also a sight to behold, before disembarking into our taxi for the ride home and the best night’s sleep in memory!
Day Four – Cairo Museum and Cairo Tower
It may have been the wonderful breakfast that made me feel a little spritelier this morning. This was very welcome as I knew we would be spending the best part of the day walking around the Egyptian museum – it wasn’t going to be small.
An oversight until now was the realisation of some small transport company called “Uber”. The hotel-booked taxis were not expensive, but the Uber’s we used were so cheap. You’re talking about a few miles trip stuck in traffic for 20 minutes costing £2-3.
As expected we were greeted with a lot of tourists at the security gates in to the museum but there was no long delay in the intense heat, it wasn’t long until we were inside, not having one fucking iota of where to start. We decided on ‘clockwise and then the bit in the middle, then upstairs’.
I’ve got about 120 photos from the museum there were that many pieces that were either interesting or really old or both. The statue above is the ‘Seated ka-statue of King Djoser’ and is the oldest known life-size Egyptian statue. Found in a chamber in 1925, the thing is believed to be over FOUR AND A HALF THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
I could do a blog on the museum content in its own right (don’t worry I won’t) but you get the idea. The highlight of the museum was unequivocally the Tutankhamun exhibition displaying the famous death mask – one of the best-known works of art in the world.
I’m going to be a bit naughty here. The exhibit were quite strict on people taking photographs of the items, although I couldn’t really see why. I get that with art such as the Bayeux Tapestry flashes can do damage but in this otherwise dark room bright lights shone on the pieces. To give me a bit of instruction-following, instead I decided to just start a video with the phone around my neck. The screengrab of the Tutankhamun’s mask was never going to be epic, but it’s a keeper! Of course everyone else just took quick photos when the stewards were not looking. It all seemed a bit over the top but rules are rules?
This was towards the end of our walk around so by the time we visited the animal section (the photo is a mummified crocodile) we heading back out into the heat.
We sat down for a refreshing juice near what would be deemed to be the actual centre of Cairo, the Ramses II obelisk in the centre of El-Tahir Square (actually a really busy multiple lane roundabout.
From here we decided to visit “The Hanging Church”. This was actually our first trip on the metro. The metro was not too difficult to manage as there are only three lines. Work is well underway of stretching one line to Giza within walking distance of the pyramids. This will be SO convenient for tourists who don’t want to spend a few quid on a taxi or day tour. I think a one-ride pass was 20p.
Getting off at just the third stop we were right outside the area that includes the Church among several other churches, towers, a cemetery and the Coptic Museum of ancient Egyptian Christian Art.
I cannot recall if there was a fee to pay to enter the Hanging Church (Google states it is free) but do remember how comfortable the pews were giving me short relief of persistent pain in my foot. Trust me I really haven’t banged on about the pain as much as I should be.
The Church gets its name from being suspended over a gatehouse passage. I didn’t expect it to be hanging over a cliff edge but found the story behind the name a little underwhelming, being able to have a slight glimpse of a tunnel.
That was pretty much it for the daytime activities, taking the metro close to our hotel was easy but exhausting so we had a few hours in the hotel.
That evening we enjoyed an Uber to one of the islands in the Nile to Cairo Tower. Although located in relatively green area of the City, the area around the tower was more modern and upbeat. We bought a ticket with a specified time on but it was still a bit of a wait once our slot came to catch the lift to the top. The tower is made of concrete and at 187 meters was the tallest structure in Egypt until 1998.
The view from the top was worth the wait, changing the concrete and dusty daytime Cairo in to a colourful landscape of lights with the sun setting in the distance. In terms of actual sights, not a lot was obvious to the eye, with most laminations belonging to big corporations or hotels.
That was about that for the night. I think there was something on at the sports stadium on the island so the taxi back took a good hour to go 3 miles. We must have had something for tea but for the life of me cannot remember, so it could not have been that good!
Day Five – Cairo Citadel, Markets and back to Giza
Today was a little easier on the feet. After breakfast and check-out we caught an Uber to Cairo Citadel, a little out the way from the centre.
The main attraction here was the Mohammed Ali mosque, but as it was quite high up I was more interested in the views. I’m delighted of the photo below just about picking up the pyramids in the distance. I like that the photo demonstrates both that the pyramids are NOT in Cairo, yet nor are they in the middle of nowhere like many would assume.
From here we wanted to check out one more thing before heading back to Giza for the rest of our trip. The markets were prevalent on several to-do lists and our guidebook but there are so many in a close area I cannot really remember which one we went to. The area we left our Uber was probably in the middle of several streets, so we chose one to have a walk through before lunch. Disappointingly we chose a street that was for the majority dedicated to clothes and linens. I’ve also found it bemusing in several markets how there are so many stalls all selling the same things, and here was no different. As a local would you visit the same one, or chop and change to support everyone? Who knows.
It was a bloody nightmare from the other end of the market trying to book a taxi, but we did use this time to identify that we had yet consumed a McDonalds. We can’t be having that no matter how disgraceful the need to have one actually is.
The food tasted as you’d expect, taking the opportunity to buy more than usual to benefit from the cheap prices. Afterwards, we pretty much got a can back to the hotel and got a buddy Ibrahim to collect us as take us back to our B&B in Giza.
That evening, and our final evening tomorrow, we visited a few other B&B / hotels near ours for tea, all with similar rooftop terraces. We clocked on the first night that our place simply bought food from neighbouring hotels and added a percentage on, so there was no need for the middle-man.
Day Six– Sakkara & Memphis day trip
By the time we finished off breakfast for our final full day we were pleased that we seen enough of things we wanted to, whilst not contempt to simply hang around Giza. Luckily our hotel offered another day tour to the south of Giza and Cairo. So, we jumped in with Ibrahim once again and set off to our first destination of Saqqara.
Saqqara has a number of pyramids but the most visited is the Pyramid of Djoser also referred to as the ‘step pyramid’. If you’re keeping up Djoser was the fella portrayed on the 4,500 statue I photographed at the museum.
The sites we visited today were A LOT quieter with tourism. Whilst this enabled us to explore the area easier (without the locals flogging their gear), the sites still offered little in the way of information boards.
We had a quick stop somewhere else to marvel at the hieroglyphs – unfortunately I cannot recall or locate this site but it was remarkable to see – before moving down to Dahshur to see two further pyramids.
In amongst all of the baron dessert it was interesting to see the countless date tress from site to site. Hundreds of thousands of them all looking ready for picking no doubt proving a vital income for those whose land they reside on.
Sneferu’s Red Pyramid was interesting as it had an entrance way. The photo suggests it wasn’t that far up. But it was. It was a big bloody group of stones. We decided against going in the small tunnel and needing a rescue to get back out, so moved on shortly down the road to our final pyramid of the trip!
Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid looks a bit like The Great Pyramid from Wish, although it may be due to poor mathematics, changing from steps to smooth edges and believe to be finished off like this due to instability. The aforementioned Red Pyramid was Sneferu’s next attempt, so at least he learnt from his mistakes.
Away from pyramid-hopping, we ended the trip visiting Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. Along with the pyramid fields that stretch on a desert plateau for more than 30 kilometres (19 mi) on its west including the famous Pyramids of Giza, they have been listed as the World Heritage Site Memphis and its Necropolis. The site is open to the public as an open-air museum. So that is where we went.
Located in the museum were loads of more artifacts (forgive me for completely giving up on history and archaeology lessons now, I usually skip museums on other trips!)
I do have to mention the focal point of the museum though, a ginormous, 80-tonne statue of pharaoh Ramses II. It was found in 1820 face down and partially buried in a swampy area – it’s a bit bloody hard to miss… It lies face up in the building erected specifically to house and protect it and visitors can circle the colossus pharaoh from the ground level or up above on a viewing balcony.
I should note that each of the sites we visited did require cash entry fees. These were so low though, about £2 each, I think Ibrahim just included it in the price. What a lad.
There we go then. A really good way to spend our last day. On the way back Ibrahim was nice enough to pop to a local shop and get us some sugar cane juive to enjoy and OH MY GOD having never tasted it before or since the trip it was bloody delicious! I’m actually looking to see where I can buy some now but it won’t be as fresh as then.
One final sunset, meal in a neirbouring hotel and sleep attempts whilst is was fucking roasting.
Day Seven – Home with my Fiancée
Leaving mid morning we had one final breakfast enjoying the freshly fried falafels that I miss, before heading to the airport home to see our friends and family.
… after a quick stop for another sugar cane juice of course!
Well done, you have made it to the end! It is now September 2023 at the time of writing this, but it has been a joy for us both to reminisce about our time where my favourite person in the world became my fiancée. Thanks for reading.
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