I’m off again tonight for a few days break over Christmas. It’s been wonderful in Cairo over the past couple of days as it is completely empty. Journeys that can take 1.5 hours take 15-20 minutes with no traffic. I was even feeling a little nostalgic about my former life living in the centre.

All good things must come to and end and it seems this is even more the case just before I depart. True to form just after finishing my superbly delicious, juicy orange tonight, I realised that I’d eaten at least one maggot.

Take me away!