Well howdy!

Hi guys I hope you are all well and looking after each other.
I am great and have finally had time and energy to sit down and type. At the moment I am in Amman, the capital of Jordan, having arrived a couple of hours ago. It is 5:43 in the afternoon here on my second day. The flight was good but it was such a relief to see the sun rise again because I had spent nearly 24 hours in darkness as i followed the night around the globe.
Instead of repeating myself I am going to post an email I sent yesterday to Mum, Dad and Sasha . Since yesterday things have changed and I am well and happy. I am just about to go out and eat.
I was not in a great mood when I wrote the email so take that into consideration. Happy reading...


Hi guys. The flight was great, except for the whole being on a plane for 22 hours, my butt was SO sore! Sorry was that "TMI", anyway so the connection was fine and I had the pilot and one of the flight attendants thinking I was pretty cute. So everything was splendid, I even got to sleep on the plane to Egypt a little. I got stopped at Customs because I didn't put an address on the entrance form (because I am travelling and don't know where I will be all the time) but they soon let me through. Finally got out in to the arrivals lounge and guess what???!!! There was no one there to pick me up! No nice little sign with my name on it. So I waited and waited and rung the hotel which told me that I hadn't organised a pick up so I got them to send out a guy and then I waited and waited some more until nearly two hours after arriving in Egypt I rung the hotel again and they said that they had sent a driver out but he couldn't find me so he had left. At this point I am finally in tears (proud to note that I had sucked it in until then) at which point a guy comes over asking what's wrong saying that he can get me a cab (which actually consists on him getting some guy that can't speak English to get his friend that can't speak English either to drive me).

At this point I really just what to get to the hotel so because they can't speak English the address has to be translated into Arabic which OF COURSE is translated wrong so that after picking up two other passengers (who also don't speak English by the way!) we get completely lost!! So here I am braving the crazy death trap they call roads ;) and because the driver didn't have his seat belt on having to listen to the the car alarm beeping at him so that he would put the seat belt on - this continued through out the whole saga ( as I AM a sensitive muso this got me very annoyed). Anyway back to being lost.... then I am trying to call the hotel on my mobile so that they can talk to the driver and direct him to the hotel but my phone won't work! (no idea what's wrong with it as it was working at the airport - that's why I couldn't ring you which I have been trying to do) so I finally get the driver to call the hotel so he gets the directions....... but the other two passengers want to be dropped off home so we go in the opposite direction to where the hotel is to drop them off. At this point I am back in tears because it has been one and a half hours since I left the airport! So we're back on the way but the driver and his mate are hungry so we take another detour to get them some food. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO over it by now.

We finally make it to the hotel, I tip the driver (by the way he wouldn't accept my first tip - how rude) put my heavy bag back on and go up the rickety lift to the 12th floor but getting out of the lift are the owners of the Osiris which for some reason starts me crying again. So I get to the Reception in tears and check in but my room isn't ready yet and all the men are giving me strange looks as they just can't handle a crying woman in their foyer. So i store my bag and go on to the roof where I try again to ring you with no avail. So here I am sending you an email - it is now 11 o clock (I got to the hotel at 10:15 only four hours after I arrived in Cairo). I don't have enough time to really do anything before I have to leave tomorrow. I'm sure I'll think of something.

I send all my love to you all, Acushla.

PS - the staff here seem really nice and the building is amazing (even if the rooms are really small)

PPS - try calling me on my mobile or you could ring the hotel and get to me that way, love Cush xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxo


Update........

Since this morning it has been great! I wandered the streets of Cairo and an Egyptian showed me around which was great. I have slept in a foreign country which is surprisingly exactly the same as sleeping at home. I had better go now and eat some dinner.

love you all lots.

PS - if you want to know more I am going to put my internet conversation with Mum and Dad in a link so that you can read that if you really want because it is too hard to write the same thing again and again.

Love you all, Acushla