Cairo & Alexandria Egypt
In September, 2005, I flew to Cairo with Keith Goodsman so that we could meet with the Egyptian Navy at their headquarters in Alexandria. We worked with Tamer Kamal at our Egyptian rep company, Alkan Consult. It was a fast trip, we spent several days in Cairo with Mick Ransome, the Marketing Manager for Middle East & Africa. Mick has been going to Egypt for 35 years and always stays at the Cairo Marriot downtown and everyone there knows him. He has a certain table that he sits at all day, drinking beer and eating peanuts by the pool.
Spent a few days working 2 hours a day, then drinking beer and eating by the pool. Then it was arranged that we should meet some very high up Navy people. We drove to Alexandria along the Desert Highway, met with the Navy and gave our technical presentations. Mick talked for 10 minutes, Keith talked for 10 minutes and I talked for 3 hours. We talked to Admirals, Commodores and about 12 very tough engineers in the EN EW Department. Spent other days sitting outside by the pool drinking beer (please note that we had to drink a lot of beer in an effort to not drink any killer Egyptian water).
The last night there, Alkan took us out to dinner on the Nile Maxime, a Nile River cruise. We saw several belly dancers and then a Whirling Dervish dance. Since we were done, we left a day early on Thursday at 2 AM and went to Heathrow, Chicago and then DFW. We missed our flight in Chicago because of a delayed overseas trip.
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On our last night in Cairo, Alkan Consult arranged for a cruise up the Nile on a dinner boat. The food was good and the entertainment consisted of belly dancers and a Whirling Dervish who kept spinning around for over 20 minutes,
Egyptian 1-, 10-, 20- and 100-Pound notes. Very colorful (and dirty)
