The weather in Cairo is hot, hot, hot - 32 degrees at least. I know this because i have just logged on to the BBC website while sitting in the Sheraton hotel at the end of the runway at Heathrow. Why then, do you ask, am I stuck in the Sheraton Hotel outside Heathrow airport for the night?! The story is a long and arduous one, involving an inordinate amount of traffic on the streets of London today. Almost every turn and detour we took seemed to be crammed full of traffic.
This was obviously not helped by the fact that today was a scorcher for the UK so all those cockney gits decided to get into their XR3is and block my path to the land of the pharaohs! I know Sam is feeling pretty guilty about it, but she really needn't, as it was hardly her fault - we left in plenty of time, but still did not make it (we were crawling through London streets for almost 3 hours).
I arrived at the airport to be informed my plane was taxi-ing on the runway as i spoke. How inconsiderate, i bet the Queen never has to suffer this indignity. In the words of HM, "we were not amused".
Speaking to the holiday rep who arranged my trip, they seemed to suggest that i would be classed as a "no show" and would have to pay another £475 for a new ticket, but after a quick chat to the Reservations desk for EgyptAir, they said that they would transfer my ticket from today to tomorrow, with maybe only a cancellation charge of about £30 - which is obviously much nicer.
So i am shacked up in the Shertaon as i didn't fancy running the gauntlet of trying to get here again from St Neots. This is a slight hiccup in the plan, but it still does not bugger up my itinerary, as i will arrive in Cairo tomorrow at 8:45pm, and then instead of spending a day in the city, i will just hop straight on to another plane and pootle down to Luxor and spend the night there before getting on my cruise.
Of course this means the timescales are tighter, and i really cant afford to miss this flight, or the cruise will leave without me!! That is all for now folks, i think i am going to head down to the bar for a stiff drink (obviously not too many, otherwise i might miss tomorrows flight too!).
Tune in tomorrow for the next exciting instalment of Mouseburger's travel-by-the-seat-of-your-pants tour of North Africa.
2 comments:
still it makes for an interesting start to the holiday ;-)
Here's hoping your next post sees you back on schedule.
We both felt awful for you when you missed your flight - although I have to say you were amazingly calm on the phone. I would have been spitting with rage!
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