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On our way from Luxor to the Red Sea coast we escaped from police convoy of some hundred vehicles and proceeded on our own under the shelter of the night. We were pretty disappointed by this side of the red Sea coast (compared to the beautiful Sinai side), and the incredible quantitiy of flies (I swear I haven't seen that many on one place in my life) probably added some to the athmosphere with the cloudy skies, covered by dark fumes from the nearby oil platforms. Despite another information, we had to join another convoy from Hurgada to the north, but were probably quite annoying to the last escort vehicle while we were driving with our constant slowlyness of 90 kph and our legs out of the windows (the cruise control was doing the job), far behind the last escorted vehicle.

It's true they were waving and shouting after us as we passed without speed reducing the rest area where everybody stopped, but probably nobody wanted to loose his cup of tea, so we were free for the next couple of hours. We visited St. Paul monastery (where he died and is burried) and made some ditional stops on the coast, where Peter finally coloured the red sea red (well, it's quite a demanding journey).

We are spending a day in Cairo now but will leave in the evening west-bound with clean clothes and a new can supply. yesterday the new airbed also started to leak air so we'll try to change it in Cairo's Carrefour.

We have to be on Libyan border on Tuesday as car insurance and my visa expire that day.

We said good-bye to Sandra and Oliver www.gilles-unterwegs.de in Luxor. This time it was for good and quite emotional. They are now on their way to Aswan where they'll embark on a ferry on Monday and arrive to Sudanese Wadi Halfa the next day. Gute Reise! Barbara and Klaus are in Sharm where they are hosting their daughter with her offspring until Sunday. Then they keep on to Hurgada and Luxor.