Desert Sunbaking & Nibbles by the Nile – 10 March 2007

It was another beautiful day so Wesley and I took Bogey out to the Wadi again. We packed a little picnic and did a bit of 4x4 driving through the desert. The old land rover coped well bounding over the rocky hills. We didn’t get too enthusiastic coz we were out there by ourselves – it’s never a good idea to play too rough in the desert on your own, some of the rocks are quite unforgiving.

We found a nice little area out of the wind and settled in for a few hours. I did a bit of sun baking (working on my Egyptian tan) and then we took Bogey for a walk. She loves it! We didn’t get quite as excited as last week so no mountain climbing, but we walked for quite a ways with Bogey running round like it was Christmas.

We stayed for about 2 hours alternating between the shade from the land rover and sitting in the sun. It was a lovely day. The only downside of going to the wadi is that you have to contend with the crazy Egyptians on the road. On the way there we slowed down because there were a bunch of goats in the middle of the road (just random goats in the road, no where near any sort of farming area, just on the edge of town). The car that came up behind us could easily see the goats but still decided to honk at us. It’s so annoying! We’d slowed down to avoid their crazy animals all over the road and they honk at us. On the way back we were driving back along the same road and a bus pulled out right in front of us. It was just lucky that we were in a 4wd. Wesley swerved around the bus, over the medium strip and backing front. If we’d been in a normal sedan we’d have had to slam on the breaks and even that would have been dicey.

We got back to Wesley’s about 4pm and had a snack so we weren’t really hungry at dinner time. We decided to go down to one of the restaurants by the Nile and just have a couple of beers. It was so nice sitting at this restaurant overlooking the Nile eating baba ghanoug, tahini, tamaia and vine leaves. So yummy :)