Day 16 and 17 - Monday 16/10/2006 and Tuesday 17/10/2006

A little more back ground from Monday. They spent the day catching up with laundry and site seeing with a bit of chilling by the pool and taking advantage of Martins hospitality. Nick C had a bit of a dickie tummy, so it was a good job they weren’t going anywhere. They left early Tuesday morning about 9ish,should have been 7.30am with a guy they had met who was a lone rider called Mick from Scotland but he had an old bike, the boys could see no reason for him not to tag along... as long as he could keep up..., but he broke down after 100 miles....(.I don’t know all the in's and out's about this guy.... may be more will come in future e-mails) they carried on without him to arrive in Luxor early evening after dark, having managed to dodge all the convoys along the way, thus completing the longest days travelling, of over 480 miles!!!!! They are both well and looking forward to the end of Ramadan...

Vanessa, On behalf of Nick G.


We’ve had a long day today at least 8 hrs solid riding, almost exactly 500 miles! We took the Red Sea coastal road, more miles but avoiding convoys. It was fabulous, Red sea on one side, mountains and desert on the other all the way to Hurghada. At Safaga we turned inland and crossed the eastern desert , stunning mountain passes great sunset great ride a long the Nile to Luxor. This really is a visually stunning country. Great roads all the way, Peage only 50p. Petrol about 17p a litre! I feel a lot better today even managed a good meal. Love to everybody.

NC