This weekend has been nothing short of incredible. This morning I was in Egypt... I saw the Cairo sun rising as I saw in the airport and now I'm in a train taken from Warsaw Central, squished between three sweet old people who keep jabbering to us despite of our lack of understanding, and one lady praying on the rosary under her breath. I now have five different kinds of money in my wallet - Polish, Egyptian pounds, American, Ukranian, and Euro - and each currency holds its own story. One nice man gave me two Ukranian coins when we ended up in the totally wrong terminal at the airport in Keiv, and Mustafa gave us promised, and somewhat rare, Egyptian coins last night - more as a token to remember him by than the value of the coin itself. We've met more people than I can keep up with - some that I'll miss dearly - and we pulled an all nighter at our hostel yesterday evening, along with the entire Hostel Brothers' staff, because all of us were too sad to actually waste time on sleeping. All of the memories are more incredible in my head than I could ever relate on paper, and it makes me scared to write them down and risk not doing the places, and the people, and the adventures justice, but for the sake of not wanting to forget a single detail: I shall try.
But for now, because it's so late and I haven't slept much in almost three days... I'll leave you with a slide show. I PROMISE I will add a variety of stories and explanations about our trips tomorrow! For now... sweet dreams.
I think we're Egyptian at heart.
3 comments:
Hi Audrey - I came here to check for any candid reviews on Hostel Brothers, and I'm glad I did. I guess, you'd recommend it again, right? How clean is the place?
Hey Hitanshu,
YES! I loved the Hostel Brothers. It was extremely clean and the staff was amazing. I had the private bedroom with a bathroom to itself and it's own air conditioner so I was very comfortable.
I would recommend going to hostel.com and checking out all of the reviews. http://www.hostels.com/findabed.php?OrderBy=Rating
If you have any other questions, just ask!
Danke!
The thing is that I personally find a big discrepancy among the hotel websites/guides and their reviews.
Whatever Lonely Planet recommends, is typically trashed on hostelworld.com
Half of the reviews are by people who have just reviewed 1-2 places.
As against, a detailed personal blog - where one only mentions if one was thrilled with the service :)
so if you come to India, I can recommend for most parts :)
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