British Ambassador honours Ehab Gaddis

[newcastle]

John Casson, British ambassador to Egypt was in Luxor today honoring the services of Ehab Gaddis - Honorary British Consul.

He revealed in a ‘tweet’ that the number of British tourists in Egypt is up by 74 percent in 2017, adding that he will continue supporting efforts to increase the figure.

Casson posted photos of himself on the Nile and monuments in the major tourist destination of Luxor, before attending a ceremony honoring the services of the Honorary British Consul in Luxor, Ehab Gaddis.

Recently, Casson stated that the major UK airline, Thomas Cook, will be resuming flights to the Egyptian city of Marsa Alam, in order to accommodate “growing British demand” for Egyptian holidays.

Thomas Cook’s suspension of flights to Marsa Alam had been enforced since 2008, now the airline will operate two flights each week from Birmingham airport and London Gatwick airport.

Thomas Cook flights to Hurghada airport increased from nine to 11 flights each week, and the company is expected to operate more flights for the winter tourist season. On its website, the airline highlighted the ideal weather and the beauty of diving in the Red Sea, available from its Marsa Alam and Hurghada resorts.

http://www.egyptindependent.com/british ... -to-egypt/

[HEPZIBAH]

Gaddis posted a video of this yesterday. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at posting videos and was unable to post it here. I meant to go back for another try but forgot - sorry.

For Facebook users, you can find it on the Gaddis Co. page.

[newcastle]

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[Major Thom]

Seems Mr Casson soon got into the Egyptian way of life!

[Dusak]

Mr. Dusak was there, very boring night it was, but plenty of free fresh orange.

[Major Thom]

What NO HAM ROLLS???? "D"

[Dusak]

No just hundreds of little fussy fairy cakes and things in glasses that you needed a spoon to eat but none were provided so you had to scoop the contents out with your tongue. Fortunately I'm a renowned tonger, the chicks used to call me lizard for some reason. I only went out of respect for a long time friend, otherwise I would of stayed at home. The invite stated that it was formul dress, which I had non of and what would I need any living here, so had considered going to the ACE charity shop to see if yours were still there, then decided they would probably be several sizes too big for slim me. So, I donned my good beige slacks with matching short sleeved shirt and dusted off my Clarks oxblood dress shoes. I call them my dress shoes cos they're the ones I wear when in the mood to put on my frillies in private. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb. Every guy was in dress black with most sporting a dickybow. I had even forgot to leave my plastic carry bag in the taxi with my shopping in. Looked and felt like a right pillock.

Towards the end of the evening, a female friend approached us, I had spent most of the time with another female acquaintance of long standing here in Karnak. She had a guilty and shifty look about her. She also had, clutched tightly in her right hand, what looked to me to be a large brown dildo looking object. My curiosity was aroused, but not in that sense. So I asked was she taking a friend home for the night, no point in being diplomatic about it. She uncovered the object by removing the napkin to show a large brown chocolate statue of the god Anubis. So I asked her where had she got it from. she saying that they were all over the place as table decorations. I called her a thieving git as my friends sisters kids would of loved that to chew on. Then the friend I was with pointed out a large white chocolate statue of Horus, then a pyramid, then a sphinx. Now I don't know what happened to these other objects of chocolate antiquities, but for some reason my plastic carry bag went home a bit stretched out.

[Who2]

Useless sod! he never did find my passport I entrusted with him, and he doesn't even have an old white Rolls Royce.'la whaala!
Mind you, He dose own a Burton's very badly cut White suit, But he is really letting the side down, and not much of a "stiff upper-lip attitude in my humble opinion.
You know that old saying "the 1st makes it and the 3rd wastes it, Gaddis was once a name to be reckoned with, now it's a joke,
Shame really.....
Ps: We really need a Micheal Caine character in Luxor:
Pss: And I always thought it was mandatory for all H.r.H. British Consuls to have 'drinking problems.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085236/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
P*ss: His secretary had more brains than all his empty desk draws....
( she once saved my ass via a cell phone call in that mad Maggamma building in Cairo)
Oh Yeh! Another thing the lovely old British Consular building opposite that highly famous and unused Luxor International Rowing Club is still empty and unused Why?...

[newcastle]

....a large white chocolate statue of Horus.....

Sounds like an ideal prize for Keefy's Christmas Quiz.

I might even enter in the hopes of winning it as I have just the place for one....

[Horus]

I look forward to watching you if you win, especially when you get to the beak.

[newcastle]

I look forward to watching you if you win, especially when you get to the beak.

Noooo....

I'm intending to bite its head off before inserting it in a fellow resident of my London borough

[Dusak]

The kids said that you tasted wonderfull.

[HEPZIBAH]

I have to say, I am a little confused about the British Ambassador honouring Ehab Gaddis. I know that Mr. Gaddis was honoured by the Queen for his services, but I thought that he had to step down from being Honorary British Consul a few years ago. So, why is it only now that the he is being honoured by the Ambassador?

[A-Four]

I have to say, I am a little confused about the British Ambassador honouring Ehab Gaddis. I know that Mr. Gaddis was honoured by the Queen for his services, but I thought that he had to step down from being Honorary British Consul a few years ago. So, why is it only now that the he is being honoured by the Ambassador?

Yes I believe you are right Hepzibah. It was not so long ago that I remember posting on here a warning to a certain member who was interested in accepting 'the baton' of authority left vacant by Mr Gaddis, when in fact it was not a baton at all, it was a simple stick with a rather unpleasant substance on one end. I am pleased to say, not only did that person not pick up the stick at the wrong end, but pleased to say eventually totally ignored the offer of the stick, or baton depending on how naive one is.

Many years ago, some joker set himself up as the self appointed consulate on the West Bank, including Union Jack over his door, informing all that the WB was not fully represented, and that Mr Gaddis was too afraid to cross the river,........I joke not. It eventually was suggested to the authorities that the person was a British spy, and he soon disappeared from the scene. I believe he saw himself as an ex-pat, that was of course until the authorities informed him of his official status in Egypt.

With regards Mr Gaddis he helped a number of British subjects who found themselves in trouble with the authorities during the late Mubarak era to the early Sisi presidency. At that time there were quite a few, he simply supplied food for those who found themselves imprisoned in the police jail in Luxor awaiting deportation. It was suggested that such action by Mr Gaddis suggested that perhaps he might not be Egyptian. Whether this little story is true or not I cannot be certain.

No matter which country a honorary consul operates in, if he is a national of that country his loyalty can often be found to be at odds with the spirit or interpretation of the law of that nation.

[Dusak]

It was to honor his actual, and final, retirement from the service. This ''retirement'' was his third attempt. I must say that I and others that had known him over a long period, were quite shocked at his physical appearance. He had lost a lot of body mass and had developed a slight sideways stoop. His family, when asked by my English friend as to how old he was, drew looks of confusion as whether he was 58 or 59.