Luxor to Edfu. "The housekeepers do it on your beds"

After our first night on the boat (still in luxor) had a huge breakfast while everyone else on the boat went to the Luxor temple.
Swam, and sunbathed and when everyone came back from the temple, we had our massages that wed booked yesterday. I had mine out on deck, the sun beating down on my back and half way through, we pulled out of Luxor and started to travel down the Nile watching Luxor slip away.
The other people on the boat are all Germans apart from us and another two couples who are English. Two from London, two from up north. The Yorkshire girl looks exactly like Jan Armstrong (my granny mothers, cousins, sons wife!) and when i asked if they were related, she said that many people in Newcastle have said that to her. How bizarre.
We are all traveling individually, but the Germans are on one big tour group.


I have never eaten so much food continuously and its quite amazing!.
breakfast is an all you can eat buffet ... With everything, lunches are a four course meal, and the dinner tonight is going to be a Gala dinner!.
After lunch we relaxed in the cabin a while watching the Nile slide slowly past our bedroonmk widow. The bliss was interrupted for a while when we stopped for a lock to let us in and the boat was surrounded by clothes sellers standing on their boats, shouting up the boat (to the sun deck), throwing bags of t.shirts up so that people can have a look etc.
We went hrough the lock and then they were gone.
After that Maurice and I started getting ready for dinner (and pre dinner drinks!).
Over dinner semi alcoholic cocktails were provided in the bar, we sat with Caroline and John the two from London and watched the crew introductions. Its was so sweet!. The heads of each department were standing in a line in front of the bar while the commentator gave all the boats statistics and then the emergency procedures on board and then the crews in introductions started '' this is Muhammad in charge of Finance" clap clap clap as he steps forward,a nd then finally (and the reason why I'm writing this part down) "this is Abdul in charge of the housekeeping team. These are the men that do it on your beds" !!! The four of us cracked up but luckily as everyone else was German they didn't really understand what had been said.

For dinner, Caroline and John joined. It was not as nice as some of the other meals that we've had on board, it was quite rushed , and although it looked nice the meat was quite dull and a birthday candle was placed in the middle of an onion for decoration. Oh dear. Maybe I should start to do that at work?!?!. It was one of the Germans birthdays and they'd made a cake for him, then all the Germans did the Congo around the restaurant to Egyptian music. Bizarre. At that point we were very interested in the deserts, not looking up or we'd be called on to it!.

A few drinks later we docked in Edfu and so the 6 of us jumped off and went for a walk up and down the main street. We sat down in a place with beer and shisha (water pipe) and spent the evening chatting.
We'd been led there by an Egyptian boy who was quite sweet and when we left he gave me an old Egyptian coin and wanted something in return "like a t.shirt" he said, didn't have anything to give him though so said our goodbyes.

Its a totally different way to travel being on a cruise, You are in your own little boat bubble and do not get to see the real culture but its so relaxing so you don't think about it. Just the way we were greeted tonight when we were getting off the boat is a sign that we all look so so rich to the locals.