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Re: "You Know you are in Egypt when you"...........
Turn on the cold water and get hot.
Get pepper out of the salt pot.
Get pepper out of the salt pot.
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Beat me to the first 2 Keefy... My First experince of a bidet on my first trip to Luxor in June 2005.
Then Emptying the contents of Pepper from the Salt dispenser during my first meal..
You Know you are in Egypt when:
You step onto a zebra crossing, and the cars do not stop !
race up to the traffic lights on red in a taxi... and do not stop !
Advised by a shoe shine man that Your 5 year old trainer shoes need to be polished..
2 minutes into a conversation and someone is trying to sell you his brothers unfinished house..
being told that the item you wish to buy is more expensive then the Arabic written price tag "suggests" . .
Step off a bus or out of a taxi and then have a Calesh man tout you for business..
Leaving this on a postive note
Seeing happy and smiling faces everywhere, despite everything..
ALWAYS an offer of help if you find yourself in trouble somehow...
Then Emptying the contents of Pepper from the Salt dispenser during my first meal..
You Know you are in Egypt when:
You step onto a zebra crossing, and the cars do not stop !
race up to the traffic lights on red in a taxi... and do not stop !
Advised by a shoe shine man that Your 5 year old trainer shoes need to be polished..
2 minutes into a conversation and someone is trying to sell you his brothers unfinished house..
being told that the item you wish to buy is more expensive then the Arabic written price tag "suggests" . .
Step off a bus or out of a taxi and then have a Calesh man tout you for business..
Leaving this on a postive note
Seeing happy and smiling faces everywhere, despite everything..
ALWAYS an offer of help if you find yourself in trouble somehow...
There's a time for everyone, if they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
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Re: "You Know you are in Egypt when you"...........
"When you"... Get the 1000+ Mohameds you know mixed up with another Mohamed.
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You know when you are in Egypt when the sun is blazing down the sky is blue and every other Egyptian says "welcome to Alaska"
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles,
but it does ruin today's happiness.
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but it does ruin today's happiness.
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You know when you are in Egypt when whatever item you pick up in any shop it says 'made in China'.
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Re: "You Know you are in Egypt when you"...........
...you are admiring Luxor Temple and someone says:
"This is Luxor Temple!!! It is Luxor Temple!! Luxor Temple, look, it's Luxor Temple, L-U-X-O-R T-E-M-P-L-E, it is Luxor Temple! This is Luxor Temple, Luxor Temple, L U X O R T E M P L E! This is Luxor Temple, IKNOWYOU, you liiieve here...scuuuseme, hellllloooo..!"
"This is Luxor Temple!!! It is Luxor Temple!! Luxor Temple, look, it's Luxor Temple, L-U-X-O-R T-E-M-P-L-E, it is Luxor Temple! This is Luxor Temple, Luxor Temple, L U X O R T E M P L E! This is Luxor Temple, IKNOWYOU, you liiieve here...scuuuseme, hellllloooo..!"
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Re: "You Know you are in Egypt when you"...........
step onto the top step to disembark the plane and think "wow, that engine is hot" then you realise - that heat is Egypt.
Love it!
Love it!
Michele,
Previously living in Limassol, Cyprus but now back in UK since 2016 :-(
Egypt is now so far away....
Previously living in Limassol, Cyprus but now back in UK since 2016 :-(
Egypt is now so far away....
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MY wife said exactly the same thing on our first Visit, I pointed out to her the Hot end of the engine was at the back...Cyprus100 wrote:step onto the top step to disembark the plane and think "wow, that engine is hot" then you realise - that heat is Egypt.
Love it!
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You know your in Egypt when ..' your afraid to fart' , when you taste the tomatoes, cucumber and the fruit. When you see the sunset over the Nile.
It is what it is.
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Does it for me every time as well Cyprus100!Cyprus100 wrote:step onto the top step to disembark the plane and think "wow, that engine is hot" then you realise - that heat is Egypt.
Love it!
Also when I wake up in morning in whatever hotel I'm staying in and think "who left the light on verandah on?"
Then I realise it's not an electric bulb been left on!
It's sunshine!
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Some years ago before the Euro we used to have a family game of smell the bank notes blindfolded and identify the country ................ German was quite like English, Spanish rather like Italian, French was different as was Australian, Saudi and US dollars but to take a whiff of an Egyptian bank note with your eyes closed is to transport you immediately - for me it's Luxor, how about you?
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Of all the things I ever thought of doing with money M.D.
I thought I was the barking mad one on this forum...
Although, I do remember the notes my mother gave me from her purse always had a loveley smell to them..
More to do with the touch of my Mother than the currency manufacturers me thinks...
The Sense of Smell, so underused by Humans these days...
I thought I was the barking mad one on this forum...
Although, I do remember the notes my mother gave me from her purse always had a loveley smell to them..
More to do with the touch of my Mother than the currency manufacturers me thinks...
The Sense of Smell, so underused by Humans these days...
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Then you have to spend the recently sniffed notes in the pharmacy to get rid of the little red spots from up your nose pipes. I wipe my wallet out with disinfectant every couple of months. I would love someone to take a germ reading off some of these notes to see exactly what we're inadvertently gathering on the digits.Mad Dilys wrote:Some years ago before the Euro we used to have a family game of smell the bank notes blindfolded and identify the country ................ German was quite like English, Spanish rather like Italian, French was different as was Australian, Saudi and US dollars but to take a whiff of an Egyptian bank note with your eyes closed is to transport you immediately - for me it's Luxor, how about you?
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I try not to think about it Dusak..
With all that bacteria, I'm surprised the right circumstances has not befallen and Egyptian note in all these years to spawn new life forms..
With all that bacteria, I'm surprised the right circumstances has not befallen and Egyptian note in all these years to spawn new life forms..
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Mad Dilys wrote:Some years ago before the Euro we used to have a family game of smell the bank notes blindfolded and identify the country ................ German was quite like English, Spanish rather like Italian, French was different as was Australian, Saudi and US dollars but to take a whiff of an Egyptian bank note with your eyes closed is to transport you immediately - for me it's Luxor, how about you?
That's because ours are plastic.
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you know you are in egypt when you notice that the pedestrian crossing only goes halfway across the road.
see outside the governate building
kunis
see outside the governate building
kunis
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I'm sure that's where I picked up my bout of Typhoid and other various bugs.Dusak wrote:Then you have to spend the recently sniffed notes in the pharmacy to get rid of the little red spots from up your nose pipes. I wipe my wallet out with disinfectant every couple of months. I would love someone to take a germ reading off some of these notes to see exactly what we're inadvertently gathering on the digits.Mad Dilys wrote:Some years ago before the Euro we used to have a family game of smell the bank notes blindfolded and identify the country ................ German was quite like English, Spanish rather like Italian, French was different as was Australian, Saudi and US dollars but to take a whiff of an Egyptian bank note with your eyes closed is to transport you immediately - for me it's Luxor, how about you?
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...you walk down Medina this afternoon and hear a very young voice behind you:
"Scuuseme sir, you are beautiful lady! I love you too!"
"Scuuseme sir, you are beautiful lady! I love you too!"
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This happens a lot to me and it really bugs me. But we Brits are renowned for our fortitude and forwards thinking. I now use a small size boob tube that compresses the man boobs nicely. Ends gender confusion, creates happy days.BENNU wrote:...you walk down Medina this afternoon and hear a very young voice behind you:
"Scuuseme sir, you are beautiful lady! I love you too!"
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