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on January 13, 2006
I went up to the top deck, as the boat turned slowly around and began to progress slowly across the river. From here I could watch, as the boats large steering wheel was controlled by the expert feet of the ferry man, who sat cross legged on a ledge in his small cabin with his assistant, who collected the miniscule fares we were charged for using the service. I asked if I could take a photo and they both smiled and posed for it; I'm sure they've been asked many times! (I was later rather embarrassed, showing the pictures to my parents, to find I'd taken a picture of some less than charming English graffiti on the painted side of the cabin so I'd better crop that picture before adding it here!)
I was surprised not to see any other tourists on the ferry but was told that a rather smarter tourist ferry runs a different route a little way to the north, so the older public ferry I was using gets little custom from overseas visitors. I was lucky with my timing on the way across in the morning but in the evening I discovered I had just missed one, although who could complain, when waiting for its return simply means half an hour spent on the banks of the Nile in the evening sun, watching the feluccas drift past and chatting to the other passengers?
on August 22, 2007
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