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Egypt being Egypt, I was fooled into an outdated timetable and a non-existing 20:30 bus…so I had to take the ‘real’ 22:00 one to Cairo. I was wondering during the trip if I would be able to make it to the airport in time but fortunately, the bus arrived at the first stop in Cairo around 06:30. Time to jump into a taxi and go past security screening that looked for 15min for the lead weight of my underwater housing (it looks like a black rectangle on x-ray). Cairo airport British Airways manager was extremely nice to me as I had to wait a little bit so that they could sort out flight issues, he gave me access to 1st Class Lounge. Flight was uneventful, the selection of video and sound quality pretty mediocre but inflight breakfast was great.

Heathrow is bit of a mess right now, it took me a while to connect from Terminal 4 to Terminal 1 with the bus, and the queue for the security screening was massive. Basically a full hour of connecting + queueing. On my way to Tokyo now. Will try to get some sleep as I slept intermitently during the bus trip and London flight.

I’m leaving tonight for the Seychelles. Fact is. I don’t know at all where to sleep and where to go. I will see at the airport if I can manage to grab some piece of information from a Lonely Planet.

I will arrive in the Seychelles tomorrow around 3PM and should leave March 22. I do not plan to stay there long due to the atrocious prices.

I’m now in London, writing this in a cybercafe in Fulham. I left Dahab on Friday at 2PM not without some hard feelings, I spent the next 9 hours in the bus to Cairo thinking about a lot of things. The trip was quite ok at least much more appreciated than the night bus from Cairo to Dahab.
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