Day 11

A very relaxed start as we didn’t have to leave until 11am but we were met at breakfast by the news that some of our cars had been broken into- in Saudi of all places which is supposed to be so strict! Our back number plate was taken but we can live with that, we even have a spare! But others have had the Yellowbricks and GPS and even tools and spare parts nicked. The police are all talk and say they will find them, especially the Yellowbricks as they can be traced but not much is happening just lots of shrugging of shoulders and very fast chat in Arabic.

The car park which was raided in spite of police presence. We thought they lost their hands for thieving.

Jane, Owen, Chris, Matt, Ed and Paul enjoying chicken on the floor.

Our lunch stop today was at a café with rugs on the floor and three brick high partitions where one big plate of rice, two chickens and 9 spoons was placed in the middle and we all sat cross legged and dug in.

Yummy! Lunch for 9.

boarding the dirty ferry

err... who's passport?

Dirty cabin for two

Actually pretty good food in dirty ship.

The Cleopatra Hall

Got to the port at 4 hung around in the car park til 7 lots of negotiation about passports and tickets and finally got on to pretty basic cabins, in fact the dirtiest we have had by far. The cockroaches on the pillow beat Rachel's used sheets in Egypt, but at least we have beds tonight. Went back for our sleeping bags as these sheets have definitely been used before!