10th June EGYPT VI

CRUISE ON THE NILE / BOAT DRINKS

As the afternoon heat builds, a Mancunian woman resembling a sky blue football decides to take issue with the bar staff aboard the boat.
She is convinced that during her transaction she has been short changed.
"...I know what I 'ad" she asserts bluntly returning abruptly to her seat.
The staff follow in a bit of a flap with the cash drawer from the till with all its contents. The purpose of this is to both explain the situation and placate the woman who has now become the centre of a certain amount of attention...
The debate continues... but in this heat...?

ASSAULT AT THE DENDERA TEMPLE

Isabelle had returned to the roof of this, one of the best preserved temples in the whole of Egypt. A younger uniformed man beckoned to her to see some hitherto unseen highlight; a stone carving of a pregnant woman. All the while asking questions such as "Was she married?", "Where was her husband?" and "Did she have any children?"
He led her on to an ever more secluded recess, then made an attempt to kiss her.
Isabelle reacted badly to this advance (from the young official's point of view), and hurried back down the stairs to the ground floor.
I said "Maybe I should have gone back and sorted him out?"
but was he armed?
"Yes"
"What kind of gun was it?"
"I don't know, I wasn't really thinking about his gun!..."