oh happy day what wonderful weather we are having for the time of year. Have spent the past few days exploring Budapest and its attractions and let me say right now that there is plenty to do for pretty much anyone. I have been to numerous museums, including the eerie terror haza which was the centre of activities (including torture in the cellars) for the red arrow party in the second world war and the secrfet police of the communist era. there are some incredib...

so today Amir and I went to Rosh Hanikra which is right on the border with Lebanon and it was very cool; the water rushed through the chalk cliffs and made mean booming sounds all through he caves. Then we went to a Druze village and ate tasty Lebanese food and then to Bental lookout point in the Golan Heights where you could see an old Syrian town that was more or less destroyed by the Israelis whilst fighting Syria in '73 war. We kept driving past old buildings...

well I made it, though the security at Taba obviously didn't want me. They took my backpack apart trying to find something that came up on the x-ray. It turned out to be my books from ILI, and they only found them when they asked me if there was any other compartment they hadn't checked. Why didn't they ask me in the first place the sweedlings? I also got told by the security guy that I looked about 16. He was surprised that I was travelling on me tod...

So, that's it. Egypt surpassed all my hopes and expectations by a long shot, not just in the places but the food, my friends, the language and the people. In just a month I have met so many new and genuinely lovely people from?all over the place including the US, Germany and Aguza (that was my local district), learned the basics of an incredible language and travelled from the Sinai peninsular to Abu simbel a few kms from the Sudanese border. You see a comple...

feluccas are fun, as long as you don't get ripped off and as long as you do not sink. We went first to Luxor and ate bananas at banana island predictably and cycled to Karnak. that was rather good fun I say old chap. We also hung out at a crazy hostel that had a fixation with Bob Marley and Black American rappers and hanging empty cans from the roof of the outside terrace......You know I said that I feared lack of fruit juice here? Well I take it all back, ev...