Day 8: Y u no work car!????

So last night was party night. 

It was good.

Very. Very. Good.

Rather than the normal tequila shots here, we do these things called Fayum Sunrises... Which is salt, tequila with tang mixed in, followed by a chaser of tang.

Tang, to those not familiar with it, is like, really, really, really disgusting raro. 

We hypothesise that it basically kills all life inside you.

Even the ants wont touch that shit, which gives you a fairly good indication as to how foul this stuff is.

Long story short. 4 of those later. Followed by whiskey = good night. 

Wake up this morning to 3 of our crew dog-sick with the stomouch flu... Intresting to note that these were the individuals who did not partake in the tang shots... therby emperically proving our hypothesis that alcahol is the way to go. And that tang will kill everything.

Take note. 

Alcahol. 

Tang.

Never get sick.

So not the best start to the morning...

But wait. 

It gets worse.

Go to start the Land Rovers... nothing... not a thing...

Dead.

Fuck.

3 hours later. nothing. 

The men pulling parts from the car. Wont start. Shit. 

2 arabic men yelling at each other and removing various parts from beneath the bonnet and all the male dig crew standing round back-seat directing. NO TAKE THAT PART. REMOVE THE CONTACTS. OMG NO DO THIS. GOSH.

This whole thing takes us back to the first day when the steering and brakes went dodgy on the car and Hamman said "OH TOMOROW WE GO FIX IN SHAHALLAH" which basically means god willing we will fix it... so probably never. nope. definitley not going to fix it. ever. 

Long story short. Didnt fix car on first day. Now we are fucked. 

meanwhile Slaggy, Rach and I went and made marmite and chip sandwiches and chilled on the deck.

SO. No Kom W trip today, but will be rolling to Karanis in afew hours :3 

Excite.

Karanis is a ballah site (spent some time there in 2010 when I was last over here in egypt) and the dig team this year have opened up a heap of new trenches round the granary areas so excite to see whats crackin there. Whilst i adore my neolithic rocks and pottery its a nice change of pace going to greco-roman sites and seeing structures :3