An Eejit in Egypt

Fresh from their comic capers on Wainwright’s Coast to Coast path, Mike & Gill McKever abandon their boots and venture on a tour of Egypt.

Getting lost in Cairo’s Khan-el-Khalili bazaar amid broom-toting hookers and exploding flying-saucer salesmen on bicycles is just a very tame start to another tale of hilarious incompetence abroad. Soon they’ll be cruising down the Nile in pursuit of the ancient Pharoahs in the Valley of the Kings and leaving a trail of UHTmilk across the airport - not to mention a toilet attendant with a curse more deadly than the curse of Tutankhamen’s tomb.

Mike deconstructs the myths of ancient Egypt in a now familiar series of ‘grumpy old man’ rants, and offends not only his fellow tourists, Soviet architecture, Egyptologists worldwide, management consultants but every religion under the sun god. Meanwhile Gill gets the ‘green tent’ treatment at the local Mosque and freaks over a waiter with a penchant for origami-based practical jokes.

Narrowly avoiding another war with Germany, being ripped off by an inspired biro salesman and coitus interruptus provoked by a flying tablecloth they can just about take it in their stride when the military yank them out of the toilets at Abu Simbel and dump them on a plane like a load of lost luggage. And somewhere along the line they, and possibly you, may learn a bit about ancient Egypt - if you can stop laughing for a moment.

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Other books by Mike McKever:

The Coast to Coast Caper

Coast to Coast on an In-Growing Toenail