http://seesimi.com Adventures of a Travel Snob Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:19:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://seesimi.com/cairo-the-mega-city/ http://seesimi.com/cairo-the-mega-city/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:01:15 +0000 Tara http://seesimi.com/?p=203 So its 12:00am, and I have just gotten off the plane that brought me from Casablanca to Cairo. I have two enormous suitcases since I have just moved out of my Moroccan apartment, where I had lived for the past six months. I have no cell phone, no money, and worst, no reservations. Did I think of booking a hotel in advance? NO.
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