NFR: Have extreme itching due to infection or insect bites? My doctor gave me a "FORMULA" that works

orchid - we also stayed at the Hilton in Cairo, and I had my first Stella Artois there,

ice cold! I remember the veggies, too, though I was too chicken to eat them. smileys/surprise.gif

One of the funny things about that hotel were the restaurants - I actually had some of the best Italian food in my life there, and got turned on to Lebanese food as well. We tried the Mexican resto one night, just for kicks - yuck. Still fun, though. We ended up getting the best baba ganoush and other local fare from the snack shop.

When we visited Imman (our cab driving friend) at his home, his wife, 2 sons and daughter were all there. His wife spoke no English, but he and the children did. We sat in their living room on the sofa and they apologized profusely because they had the television on - a big soccer game!

Imman very proudly showed us his wife's kitchen - it was amazing! He had promised her the kitchen of her dreams, and very slowly they had transformed it - gorgeous cabinets and granite countertops, and marble flooring. It could have been taken straight from a magazine shoot.

Writing about this reminded me of another thing that happened - Imman took us to the Khan Al-Khalili, and looked out for us as we shopped. He caught the fact that one of shop keepers hadn't listed the proper currency on a credit card transaction, which would have ended up being triple the actual cost.

Fun, fun times!

 
Lisa that shopkeeper's trip can be very costly. We bought a rug in silk rug in Turkey, watching

carefully on the currency. But when we got the Visa bill back home, the shop had changed the currency. Visa argued for us and since I had the invoice, we won. The diff was massive.

That story of the taxi driver's kitchen is a good smile. She must have been a good cook.

 
Odd, I was just switching my September calendar and noticed the photo is Ko Phi Phi. Beautiful. The

rock formations are so unique to that part of the world. It looks like a small version of the beach in Phuket.

 
Yes, they're lovely rock formations. And you can see in this aerial shot

how the island got pummeld in the tsunami. Water swept into the bay and had no where to go. It swept over that small connection and disbursed outward to the two flanking sides. I met a guy who ended up stranded in a coconut tree. Luckily there's some high ground and the locals made a run for it. Now this sleepy island is seeing a ton of new construction and yet, when I was there, no one seemed too interested in removing all the moldy matresses and such. My travel book was published just after the tsunami and didn't list any hotels, restaurants, etc.

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1145429385028496601hbtsxx

 
We lived in Cairo from 86 to 90. Every penny I made working as a

local hire contractor was spent at Sharm. The first time there, there was just one hotel -- an Israeli owned motel-type place with quonset huts that had air conditioning. By the time we left a Hilton, Sheraton and a couple of other hotels were building.

We would leave Cairo as early as possible and drive as fast as we could to get there. Sharm was a 7 hour drive, but my boss had the record of making it in 5. Really scary, if you have ever driven in Egypt, where traffic signals and road signs are for tourists -- the locals don't follow them.

We would all drive out to the dive sites -- a half dozen Peugeot station wagons and a VW bus. We were all alone! We'd put on our gear, lock the cars, swim a short distance to the "wall" and there we were. Ras Mohammed was another fabulous site -- we saw eel gardens, old grecian urns, and every imaginable sea creature. Well loved was a huge Napoleon Wrasse that followed us around begging for hard boiled eggs we would steal from the breakfast buffet.

Now Sharm is a where diplomats gather for summits, traffic is horrible (I hear) and the reefs are slowly being shattered by uncaring tourists. Shame. Better get there in a hurry!

 
Here's an old-time Swimmers' Ear infection prevention formula==>

As a kid I once had a really bad earinfection from swimming, and our old country doctor, Dr. Luzadder, not only treated and cured it with a prescription medicine (some type ear drops), he also told us about this preventive approach to use BEFORE SWIMMING==>

Tilt your head to one side--fill the top ear canal with baby oil and keep your head tilted in order for that ear to remain full of baby oil for 1 full minute. Then put a Kleenex on top of the filled ear and straighten up your head to let the oil run out into the Kleenex.

Repeat process with your other ear.

The oil will be absorbed into your skin pores and as water & oil don't mix, it'll keep the lake water (or sea, ocean, pool--even bathtub water) from giving you any swimmers' ear infections. I have only had that one ear infection from swimming because it was so painful that I have ALWYAS remembered to do the baby oil trick before jumping in for a swim!

 
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