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[thebitterguy]

My parents were here last November. We wanted to go with them, but didn't have holiday time available.

I visited Sharm El Sheikh in 93 with them and Uday & Qusay. I bought a handful of scarabs and gave them away as gifts when I returned.

Fucking hell. They visit Turkey now, where there's bombings targetting tourists, and now this, where they visited last year.

And add all that to the fact Cynra's going to be visiting England next month for a few weeks, and you've got a fucking ulcer gnawing its way through my stomach lining.

Gaah. I'm going to bed now.

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[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

So much for visiting any place for vacation in the Middle East for the next 10 years.

::B::

[thebitterguy]

Or Australia, England, or South Asia.

[umario.livejournal.com]

Actually, we went to Hurghada (Al Ghardaqah on this map (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/egypt_pol97.jpg)), not Sharm El-Sheikh. It's straight southwest across the Gulf of Suez from Sharm.

And I remember you shaving your beard while we were there. And seeing a couple of cats getting busy while another cat was watching. Sadly, I remember little else other than Uday and I spending a lot of time in the water which was too cold for everyone else.

I'm still going. Turkey this fall, Egypt next year. Screw the bastards. I'm still probably more likely to die in D.C. or Detroit than in either of those countries, or England, which is going to be a stop-off on the trip.