To Egypt - Seqqara and the Giza plateau
1/13/18 Had breakfast and Christopher picked us up at 10:45 for the airport. I really enjoyed Christopher during our stay in Paris. After waiting for our flight, we boarded for a 4.5 hour flight to Cairo--a much nicer airplane (we actually got fed). We landed at 8:30 p.m. Cairo time, met up with our tour company, and had to wait for more passengers (6 in all) coming in from other places. The ride from the airport to the Mena House Hotel in Giza was about an hour, and the craziest drive I have had in a long time---even New York City taxi drivers were calm compared to this. All I did was suck air the whole time, and all the driver did was laugh every time. Of course, he put me in the front seat and every else behind us. The Mena House Hotel is the finest in Egypt. And it is spectacular. It was originally built as a private house in 1859. In 1879, a rich family from the US or Europe bought the property and turned it into ...