Towel Art

When you sail on the River Nile and Lake Nasser in many of the river cruise boats the Egyptian crews love to demonstrate their skills with towels. They can create crocodiles, swans and the most funny is the one in the photograph above left in our cabin on the last night of our trip to Abu Simbel - and it's tipping time. After a few glasses of Egyptian wine and some Nubian dancing it came as quite a shock when we opened the cabin door and saw him.

They'd used loads of towels stuffed and shaped together for the body, using our jumpers and sunglasses to leave this scarey looking man in our bed complete with envelopes to put money in for the housekeeping staff. On shore in the hotels they strew rose petals on the beds in the shape of hearts and lovers' arrows. The cabin on this Egyptian boat was as big as any hotel bedroom. It even had a three piece suite and writing desk in it. The cabin in a Russian river boat was so small that when we were shown to it Morty asked the steward where the other cabin was - for me!
Towel Art