Planes, Trains & Automobiles

While the rest of the boat is out visiting the Temple of Esna here in Aswan, I am sitting in our room typing away. Last evening I came down with some stomach cramps and an upset stomach. I wanted to get some Pepto-bismol so we called the on-board doctor. This experience was not what I was expecting. Instead of dropping off a tablet or a small bottle of the pinky goodness, I was treated to a full examination lasting about 15 minutes. Dinner was about to start and I wanted to get upstairs to the dining room but instead found myself laying down on my bed and being pressed on, listened to and felt up …

Breakfast came quicker than I would have liked with Money giving us a brisk wake-up knock around 7am. I slept alright although I tossed and turned a good bit. I left the top bunk ladder against the wall and it rattled until about 4am when I realized what it was and took it off its hook to enjoy (relative) silence. Reasonably comfortable, reasonably quick and very cheap means I’d give it another go. Overland travel is kind of fun; after we woke up we were treated to early morning views of life along the Nile. From the train we could see about a kilometer of greenery inland until the river lost its effect and the …