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You get the impression from cleverly crafted tv shows that they are in the middle of the desert.
In fact, they're on the edge of a dirty shitty town. There is a pizza hut across the road from them and there are loads of aggressive arseholes around there 'giving' you things that they then insist on being paid for. Whilst it was good to actually see such an amazing example of ancient engineering it was totally spoiled by the local tossers. if you ever go there then do not take a photo of a camel. The owner will try to charge you for doing so and will get real nasty if you say no.
Sadly this is true. The local geebags do their best to ruin your visit. They really do. But you just have to take the attitude of "fuck it, it's a different culture" and ignore them. Whatever you do, don't agree to shake hands and pose for a photo with the fuckers in Arab robes. They are fucked on steroids and won't let go until you pay them. Actually saw this happen to a couple on our tour of the site.
Funny thing was I started off replying to all the hawkers politely with "no thank you" but after about the 50th crunt I was simply grunting "fuck off" as I pushed past them.
The pyramids themselves are amazing. Only let down by the fact that you could lob a stone into someone's back yard from the foot of them, the shithole that is Cairo has encroached THAT close to the site.
You get the impression from cleverly crafted tv shows that they are in the middle of the desert.
In fact, they're on the edge of a dirty shitty town. There is a pizza hut across the road from them and there are loads of aggressive arseholes around there 'giving' you things that they then insist on being paid for. Whilst it was good to actually see such an amazing example of ancient engineering it was totally spoiled by the local tossers. if you ever go there then do not take a photo of a camel. The owner will try to charge you for doing so and will get real nasty if you say no.
Sadly this is true. The local geebags do their best to ruin your visit. They really do. But you just have to take the attitude of "fuck it, it's a different culture" and ignore them. Whatever you do, don't agree to shake hands and pose for a photo with the fuckers in Arab robes. They are fucked on steroids and won't let go until you pay them. Actually saw this happen to a couple on our tour of the site.
Funny thing was I started off replying to all the hawkers politely with "no thank you" but after about the 50th crunt I was simply grunting "fuck off" as I pushed past them.
The pyramids themselves are amazing. Only let down by the fact that you could lob a stone into someone's back yard from the foot of them, the shithole that is Cairo has encroached THAT close to the site.
Interesting (but not surprising) - and you've not convinced me to remove it from my bucket list
I was planning to go there this summer, but it's a bit of dangerous place at the moment, so think I'll wait.
You get the impression from cleverly crafted tv shows that they are in the middle of the desert.
In fact, they're on the edge of a dirty shitty town. There is a pizza hut across the road from them and there are loads of aggressive arseholes around there 'giving' you things that they then insist on being paid for. Whilst it was good to actually see such an amazing example of ancient engineering it was totally spoiled by the local tossers. if you ever go there then do not take a photo of a camel. The owner will try to charge you for doing so and will get real nasty if you say no.
Sadly this is true. The local geebags do their best to ruin your visit. They really do. But you just have to take the attitude of "fuck it, it's a different culture" and ignore them. Whatever you do, don't agree to shake hands and pose for a photo with the fuckers in Arab robes. They are fucked on steroids and won't let go until you pay them. Actually saw this happen to a couple on our tour of the site.
Funny thing was I started off replying to all the hawkers politely with "no thank you" but after about the 50th crunt I was simply grunting "fuck off" as I pushed past them.
The pyramids themselves are amazing. Only let down by the fact that you could lob a stone into someone's back yard from the foot of them, the shithole that is Cairo has encroached THAT close to the site.
Interesting (but not surprising) - and you've not convinced me to remove it from my bucket list
I was planning to go there this summer, but it's a bit of dangerous place at the moment, so think I'll wait.
Go. Deffo go. I had wanted to see them up close since childhood and was so happy that I finally got to do it. The security from our cruise ship up to Cairo was mental. Heavily armed police and soldiers in jeeps escorted us through the desert at about 90 mph, holding back all the locals. We went a couple of years after 30 or so German tourists had been murdered out there so tourist security was full on. I'd love to go again and bring my kids but it is a bit too dodgy for the kids at present.
That's around the same time that I went. We had armed escorts in front and behind the coach all the way from Port Said to Cairo and two armed plain clothes police on each bus.
When we got there I was having a row with a local about harrassing my wife and one of the cops in the white boiler suits (special tourist police apparently, the normal cops wear black boiler suits) motioned to her to cross the barrier and stand on the base of the Pyramid with him so she was safe whilst I and another cop sorted out this local fella. Once done I went to get her back and even the cop wanted a pay-off for protecting her!!!!! It was a close thing because he only asked for $5. If he had asked for $10 I'd have had to let him keep her
Also, if you do ever get there, don't go on one of the camel rides. They're only about $5 out in to the desert. But they're about $50 to come back! One guy from Liverpool was left out in the desert because he wouldn't pay
fucking funny though
Also take a lot of either $1, €1 or £1 coins/notes. They don't understand the concept of giving you change. If you give them a £10 note that is the last time you'll see it.
StuartL wrote:So, I'm 45 next birthday and thinking that I should do my list of things that I want to do, places I want to see, things to accomplish while I still have most of my faculties remaining.
Has any forum member already done their list ?
What is on it that they have done ?
Any (HALF SENSIBLE, I do realise it is asking a lot) suggestions to add to my meagre list ?
Ride on an Elephant
Feed a Tiger
Have a helicopter ride
Visit the pyramids
Visit Maccu Pichu (peru)
Visit Chichen Itza (mexico)
Visit Stonehenge
See the Who live
Visit the cavern club , Liverpool to see where the Beatles performed.
I have already ticked off
Parachute jump
Swim with dolphins
Hot air balloon ride
See Arsenal win the league
See Arsenal win the FA Cup
Visit Colleseum / Rome
Surely if someone has achieved their "bucket list" they are now deceased. Sorry to disappoint you but the cavern club is no longer...the one on Matthews street is not the original club as the original one was filled in a few years back. You'll have to excavate the area to find it. There you go, something for your list...
I had thought that the Cavern was no more but got told recently that it was still a venue you could visit ??
I thought the concept of the bucket list is things you intend to do before you die - not that you have to pop your clogs the second you complete it.
There is a Cavern Club that is modelled on the original but it is not the original venue. Think AshburtonGrove being the new Highbury. Bigger, cleaner but not the same.
You're right a bucket list is things to do before you die but once you've done the list you gonna sit around waiting to die? Does waiting to die become the only thing left on the bucket list? That's why the bucket list ends when you die.
SPUDMASHER wrote:That's around the same time that I went. We had armed escorts in front and behind the coach all the way from Port Said to Cairo and two armed plain clothes police on each bus.
When we got there I was having a row with a local about harrassing my wife and one of the cops in the white boiler suits (special tourist police apparently, the normal cops wear black boiler suits) motioned to her to cross the barrier and stand on the base of the Pyramid with him so she was safe whilst I and another cop sorted out this local fella. Once done I went to get her back and even the cop wanted a pay-off for protecting her!!!!! It was a close thing because he only asked for $5. If he had asked for $10 I'd have had to let him keep her
Also, if you do ever get there, don't go on one of the camel rides. They're only about $5 out in to the desert. But they're about $50 to come back! One guy from Liverpool was left out in the desert because he wouldn't pay
fucking funny though
Also take a lot of either $1, €1 or £1 coins/notes. They don't understand the concept of giving you change. If you give them a £10 note that is the last time you'll see it.
Had a similar experience with the tourist cops Spuddy. Wife and I were taking each others photos in front of the pyramid (which was roped off) and cop comes over and says "you go stand on stones I take photo" waving us in over the rope. We did and got some great photos of us right up against the massive stones. We go back and thank the cop and he promptly puts my camera behind his back, rests his hand on his AK47 and says "You have five pound yes?" Fucking right yes we have five pounds!!
Did your coach make the "gratuity" stop on the way back to Port Said? Out in the middle of the fucking desert and our driver Mohomad pulls over, all the tourist cops dismount and surround the buses and our guide informs us that Mohomad is pretty broke and on shit money, would we mind tipping him? She then passes an envelope around the bus and every fucker couldn't put enough money in there quick enough! Mohomad suitably tipped, up all the cops remount and away we go, Mohomad singing happily all the way back to Port Said.
SPUDMASHER wrote:Similar but not as drastic............and I think his name was Afteb
We got one of the police walking down the coach with his gun and a bag
DB10GOONER wrote:Out in the middle of the fucking desert and our driver Mohomad pulls over, all the tourist cops dismount and surround the buses and our guide informs us that Mohomad is pretty broke and on shit money, would we mind tipping him? She then passes an envelope around the bus and every fucker couldn't put enough money in there quick enough! Mohomad suitably tipped, up all the cops remount and away we go, Mohomad singing happily all the way back to Port Said.
SPUDMASHER wrote:Similar but not as drastic............and I think his name was Afteb
We got one of the police walking down the coach with his gun and a bag
SPUDMASHER wrote:Similar but not as drastic............and I think his name was Afteb
We got one of the police walking down the coach with his gun and a bag
Was your wife working with him?
no, it was a new bag, not an old bag
Man, I hope she never reads this forum... again...
But you just have to take the attitude of "fuck it, it's a different culture" and ignore them. Whatever you do, don't agree to shake hands and pose for a photo with the fuckers in Arab robes. They are fucked on steroids and won't let go until you pay them. Actually saw this happen to a couple on our tour of the site. 
