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IT WAS a year of highs and
lows in travel.

By David Wishart
Contributing Writer

The low point was a February
evening in Egypt Air's departure
lounge at Kennedy Airport when a
fellow traveller pointed out the
headline in that day's New York
Times which read something along
the lines of “Egyptian. terrorist
group says it's going to kill tourists."

The next low was finding out that
half our group had cancelled
because of that headline. But I car-
ried on, the reasons being that hav-
ing survived a night in New York |
had to be pretty well invincible, and
I had already bought my duty-free
Scotch.

Duty-free liquor is not what it
used to be — in fact the price differ-
ence these days, particularly at
Vancouver airport, is so minimal it's
hardly. worth humping it around.
Unless you're going to camel coun-
try. For a start. Egypt Air is dry,
although they do offer small bottles
of red and white wine to passengers
as they board at New York, but not at
Cairo.

Also, a small refreshment of the
Famous Grouse was a consolation
as the big Boeing sped across the
Atlantic towards .., for all 1 knew, a
hurtling rocket and a fiery plunge
into a used camel fot in a Cairo sub-
urb, But no problem — neither on
the flight nor in Cairo.

Nobody took a shot at us or even
pulled a face. We found that other
than the angry minority causing the
alarm — and don’t we all have them
— the average Egyptian was
delighted to see us,

We went down to the Sinai and
up to Alexandria, cruised the Nile,
strolled in markets, went to night-
clubs and restaurants, and there was
never & moment’s cause for concern.
Because of the scare there. were few
American tourists but the plus side
was that there were no lines to see
the monuments.

It was a very good time to go.

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growing tourist: business, all of
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