Cairo, Egypt

We had a free day in Cairo today. I had planned in the extra day in case any of delays on our journey to-and-from Abu Simbel. Plus it was our fourth hotel in four days, so it was nice to relax and spread out our stuff for a couple days.

I did have some museums suggested for the day, but we were both a bit under the weather with the cough/cold that it seems every second person has. So instead we just relaxed all day at the hotel.

We had a bunch of admin things to do anyways - catch up in my blog, wipe down all the desert dust from our suitcases and shoes, post hotel reviews, monthly banking, file government paperwork. Just an average day on vacation lol.

Some random observations

• Almost all my pics have been from my iPhone. Aside from the Acropolis, I’ve only posted four from my camera. My iPhone was capable of taking those four, it’s just that I had my camera in my hand at the time. I don’t carry my camera with me half the time now, but it could get the point where I don’t bring it on vacation at all.


• We’ve also noticed that hotel staff that try to help with our suitcases aren’t familiar at all with two-wheelers. Then we looked at other suitcases on conveyors and they’re almost all four-wheelers. Heather did considerable research at the time on two- vs four-wheels, and the two-wheels are more durable cause the wheels don’t stick out. Except if you don’t know how to wheel it around and end up dragging the fabric everywhere.


• I’ve been able to pay using Apple Pay almost everywhere. The only reason we’ve needed cash is for tips.

Overall not a very exciting day but we needed the down day.