Float like a butterfly

Wotcha. Went to visit Mohammed Ali's mosque today. It's not knockout. Blue Mosque in Istanbul has it on the canvas etc. Then went for heckling at the bazaars (khan-el-khalilli) and it was amateur hour. On the scale of 1 to harangued, I wouldn't give them more than a 2.83. Now the Equator: that's where to go to get a Force 9 Badgering. I wasn't even hassled into an inlaid jewellery box, a camel, a fez OR a belly-dancing costume.

Rest of group are acceptable: low-to-no freak count thus far, but technically it's Day One - we have a couple more days til the old cabin fever Big Brother syndrome starts in earnest. Lots of people here are proper intrepid world-seer types, there's lots of Arctic and Kazakhstan and white water and Malawi talk going on.

Went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo this afternoon. P-retty awesome, though guide (Ahmed) was being most annoying and talked non bloody stop. He is flexible with his facts - not something I look for in an Egyptologist. Crappy museum, awesome contents. I coveted.

Tomorrow brings pyramids. Stepped, bent, red, Khufu, Khafre, and Ye Olde Sphinx. Quite excited about this as it's an opportunity to wear my Indiana Jones hat (made of gemsbok no less). Da-da-dah-DAH, da-da-dah etc.