Cairo!

Cairo has been a great place to kick off this adventure - we can pick up pretty much any of the stuff we might need for the 1st part of the trip here, but at the same time it's definitely not London, so we are slowly but surely finding our feet in another part of the world. I woke up to a lot of messages telling me that their trip to work had been interrupted by my picture staring at them from page 3 of the Metro! Sorry about the attire... not my idea :) We've been looked after brilliantly since arriving at 9pm local time last night thanks to one of Lindsey's travelling contacts (Justin) who lives & works in Cairo. He's arranged for us to use an apartment for a couple of nights while we settle in which allows us to spread all of our stuff out so that we can jettison any unneeded bits and pieces that we might have packed. We need a couple of days to sort out our Sudan visa which requires, amongst other things, a letter of invitation from the British Embassy, but I hope to post one more time from El Rehab before we start cycling. Stay tuned!