Maadi Hotel.

Third night tonight at the Maadi Hotel. Thank goodness we are moving out tomorrow. The internet access and the elevators have been a nightmare. We have had to walk down 15 flights of stairs a few times because the elevators haven't bothered coming up to the 15th floor. One way to lose weight!
Apart from the hotel, there is a mosque straight across the road and the first call to prayer is 3.55am, the last 3 days have been okay. The only other glitches have bee that our portable Wi-Fi router has a new sim card but they Vodafone shop didn't give us a security code for it and our plugs don't fit the adaptors they have here so we have had to buy new cords for the laptops, camera & phones. Joy! Joy!
APART from all that we've had a great time wandering around. Found a couple of great places for food near the hotel. This morning we signed up for an apartment and move in tomorrow. LE3500 per month knocked down from LE4500. I'll take photos when we move in so you can see what it's like. Don't expect too much :-)
Highlight of today was the ACE Club with the newbies and Dr Farnsworth. We were able to meet some expats, mainly Americans and Brits but I also met a Welshman and an American who had been married to a Samoan and spoke a little of the language - very cool. We also met the newest staff member who is a "KIWI" (woop woop) and has been in Egypt since January.
Sadly there are 5 teaching positions available as a lot of the Americans who were hired decided to pull out. I can't believe how stupid they are. We have seen 2 tanks outside the police stations and that's it. People can even have their photos taken with them if they want. Nothing has happened in Cairo all week so whatever violence the media is showing is inaccurate.
We are looking forward to tomorrow's move but I am not sure how long it will take to get the Wi-Fi connected in the apartment. Until then ...