Some Qualities About Living Abroad

[Hairy Cornflake]

Living in Egypt the working week is Sunday to Thursday, don't mind having Friday off, still can't get used to working Sunday.

Anyway, Thursday 1.pm and the weekend starts. Mrs HC is in the UK, so I am home alone. Fed my foot up so not going out on the razz tonight.

On the way home, brainwave. Phone up the the pizza shop also phone up the local Drinkies shop. Arrived home, there are my last two beers in the fridge. They lasted , well almost, long enough until the pizza arrived, closely followed by a little man with 24 cold beers and couple bottles of wine.

So here I am Thursday afternoon, weekend has started, full of stuffed crust pizza, on the second bottle of Cape Bay, twenty four bottles of local Stella to aim for.

Wonder what I'll do tomorrow?

[drivin_me_nuts]

rehydrate?

[Justayellowbadge]

Hairy Cornflake said:

Wonder what I'll do tomorrow?

I've tried, really I have, but, no, I just don't care.

Enjoy it though, whatever. Quietly, though. You don't have to post about it. Keep that air of mystery.

[soad]

Hairy Cornflake said:

Wonder what I'll do tomorrow?

Fire up a barbeque! Or do some desert exploration.

Fancy buying a camel?

Is this local to you?
http://www.ghibliraceway.com/

Edited by soad on Thursday 4th March 13:44

[fulham911club]

Hairy Cornflake said:

Living in Egypt the working week is Sunday to Thursday, don't mind having Friday off, still can't get used to working Sunday.

Anyway, Thursday 1.pm and the weekend starts. Mrs HC is in the UK, so I am home alone. Fed my foot up so not going out on the razz tonight.

On the way home, brainwave. Phone up the the pizza shop also phone up the local Drinkies shop. Arrived home, there are my last two beers in the fridge. They lasted , well almost, long enough until the pizza arrived, closely followed by a little man with 24 cold beers and couple bottles of wine.

So here I am Thursday afternoon, weekend has started, full of stuffed crust pizza, on the second bottle of Cape Bay, twenty four bottles of local Stella to aim for.

Wonder what I'll do tomorrow?

How exactly does that experience equate to a "quality about living abroad"? Other than the fact you are starting on Thursday rather than Friday you could be doing the same in just about anywhere in the UK.

I think you should go home and see your wife or get out more or something....

[iggletiggle]

what a let down.

i expected some wild story about egypitian women and gold and and and ...

pizza and beer can be done in any UK town or city most days of the week.

Fail.

[andy400]

Justayellowbadge said:

Keep that air of mystery.

[cloggy]

Ah Egypt, the ahole of the world. Quality.

[jeff m]

Well by living abroad one does avoid the oft pettiness of UK life.

However, I'm sitting here trying to decide if Egyptian Pizza is a positive.
Is this a treat I have yet to encounter.

[BayTheMoon]

cloggy said:

Ah Egypt, the ahole of the world. Quality.

If Egypt is the ahole of the world, what should we call those that are passing through it?

[Stablelad]

[Corpulent Tosser]

So they still do the local Stella. Does the bottle still say Export Lager Beer ? As if they couldn't make up their mind what it was so covered all bases

Do you hold each bottle up to the light to see if there are any 'bits' floating in it ? We used to get a case in th ecamp every day, two bottles each and if you got thee first you checked out which bottles had least bits and hid them. My favourite stashing place was underneath the ice in the icemaking machine.

I worked out in the desert - cant remember the spelling but it was pronounced something like Rah Shakia, well it was over 30 years ago now.