Pole to Pole
Day 62: Aswan to Wadi Halfa

Slowly, patiently, this mass of people and possessions moves through the Customs building and out towards a buff-hulled 160-foot ferry boat called the Sinai. It's a hard worked, stocky, unglamorous vessel with an apparently unlimited capacity to absorb everyone and their kitchen sinks. The authorities, for their part, have done what they can to make getting aboard as difficult as possible. Passengers must squeeze between unloading trucks on one side, and barbed wire, a link fence and sandbags on the other. Their progress is further impeded by an official of the Port Authority with wavy black hair and a wonderful repertoire of hand gestures who seems unable to communicate on any level less than uncontrolled fury. The slightest thing sets him off, igniting a Fawltyesque rage which quite cheers people up.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Pole to Pole
- Day: 62
- Country/sea: Egypt
- Place: Aswan
- Book page no: 133
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