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Egypt: Diplomatic immunity? |
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Monday, 12 February 2007 |
One of the worst thing about travelling for work is simply the lost weekends. It used to bother me an awful lot. Now I have the luxury of being able to take that time later, and Nigel doesn't work, we are able to enjoy that time together when it suits us. That's a big improvement.
Yesterday was one of those travel days, as I'm working in Egypt this week. Kastrup was it's usual pleasant self, the only downside being the inability of SAS to issue a boarding pass for the second leg of my journey. That meant when I got to Frankfurt I needed the transfer desk, except it was closed. And as the desk was closed, I couldn't get my boarding pass to get through to the Non-Schengen side of the terminal. Aaargh!
The problem was resolved, and I made my way, boarded and we waited. It seems some people had second thoughts about going to Egypt, despite their luggage being in the hold, so we were delayed whilst we waited for them to find the luggage and take it off. What goes through the minds of these people? Why check in, hand over luggage, and then don't turn up? It makes no sense to me.
The flight happened. Nothing bad, nothing amazing. It just happened.
On arrival at Cairo I was greeted, and whisked off and told to wait. A while later the man arrived, and we went through to pick up the luggage and out of the terminal, untroubled by passport control. I guess I'm a diplomat ;)
The taxi ride was fun, as it usual on these journeys. Cairo has markings on the road, foolishly I thought maybe lanes, however it seems they are anything but lanes as it was common to have at least 2 cars attempting to use one of these "lanes", and sometimes three. The horn was incessant and continues through the night. I hope I get chance to see something of Cairo during the week, it would be a shame to go this far and not actually see anything than the hotel - something that happens all too often. |
