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Whenever I travel to a major city on holiday, the first thing I do as a tourist is book myself on the city bus tour. I find it the best way to see what a city has to offer; it gives you a feel as to what the place is really like, and of course it takes you to most of the tourist attractions. I must admit I use to be a cynic and would mock the city bus tour as it went past, I couldn’t see the point of them, I preferred to do it my own totally independent way and I thought they were a complete  waste of money.

My viewpoint  changed when I was in Madrid about 10 years ago, I got dragged on to a city bus tour, I was literally dragged on kicking and screaming. In fact the only reason I got on the bus was because I knew it would take me to the Bernabeu Stadium, and I was planning on going there.

That first time city bus tour in Madrid was a new awakening for me; it was at that moment when I realised I had made a decision about not liking something without even giving it a try, I assumed it was naff and that it wasn’t for me. Here I was sitting upstairs on the open top bus, with the headphones on happily listening to the commentary, watching the beauty and chaos of Madrid pass me by.

I normally try to avoid bus travel like the plague, but it was nothing like taking a normal commuter bus, full of riff raff. I love the fact that they take you right to many of the major tourist destinations and you can then jump on and off   the bus when you’re ready and go to the next place of interest. If it’s a well run service, they run on a fairly frequent basis and especially for a city break, when you are usually their for only a short period of time, they give you the opportunity of not wasting time and effort finding where places are and then how to get to them.

Since that first bus tour experience, I’m not ashamed to admit I have been on a bus tour in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Barcelona, Madrid (2nd time), Berlin, Paris and New York. They are defiantly worth the money you pay, even the extortionate overpriced ticket prices you pay in London!

Sitting on the top deck of an open top double decker bus lets you see a city from a different and unique viewpoint, which alone is worth paying for! I would recommend to anybody that hasn’t been on one before, to give it a try. If you are a cynic like I use to be, you could be in for a very pleasant surprise!

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I had a spare week to fill in, before I headed back to the UK; I had just spent the summer on a Kibbutz, somewhere in the Jordan Valley in Israel. Which had been great fun, apart from the minor inconvenience of having to do a little bit of work 6 days a week.

The fun was now over and it was time to go and visit one of the wonders of the world, the Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza. I made my way to Tel Aviv and bought my Egyptian Visa and bus ticket for the 15-hour journey from hell to Cairo.

I got to the bus station in plenty of time, and couldn’t help but notice a tall, slim and very sexy looking girl that turned out to be a Russian, in the queue in front of me. She just had a way about her that I found totally irresistible. A young sleazy looking English guy tried his best to get a little bit too friendly with her, and was loudly told to, “fuck off, you creep”. I liked her even more, she sure wasn’t easy.

I managed to get myself a seat with a nice view of her, in the opposite row, and occasionally we would glance at each other, but nothing was said. The bus stopped somewhere at the Red Sea for a refreshment break. It was pitch dark and the heat was unbearable, so I did what any traveller with any sense does; I made my way to the bar and had a couple of pints of cold lager.

Soon after the bus departed again for Cairo, I fell into a deep sleep, and was then woken up by the Russian girl shouting out like crazy in her native language, I looked over and she was having a dream, I wondered what she was dreaming about, I thought about asking, but remembered the English guys knock back at the station, I thought it would probably be best if I said nothing.

The bus from hell eventually arrived at our stop off point at the Sheraton hotel in Cairo. I was hanging around outside the bus, confusing myself with a map of Cairo, when out of the blue a German couple, came over and asked me where I was staying and I said the name of the flea pit hotel and they then pointed at the Russian girl and said Lina is going there, do I mind travelling there with her.

I stayed calm and a cool, “sure she can”, we introduced ourselves and got on with the small talk that travellers love to talk about, where we had been, where we were going etc. We got to the hotel and she asked if I wouldn’t mind sharing and splitting the cost of a room for the next two nights until her flight day, “yes, I would love to share”.

It was around 11 am buy the time we got to the hotel; unfortunately there were twin beds in the room, and it was a shared shower. We dumped our rucksacks and she showed me some of the sights of Cairo, she took me to The British Museum and the Grand Bazaar and down to a nice spot on the Nile.

Eventually, after taking our lives in our own hands, we somehow managed to navigate our way across Tahir Square, and back to the hotel. As soon as we got back to the room, Lina said she was going for a shower, 15 minutes later a radiant and sweet smelling Lina came back and told me, “that I must go for a shower now”, I thought It would be rude to ignore the girls request, I thought I better show some class, and took my time, having my shower. I got back to the room and I was delighted to see the Russian beauty lying naked on the bed.

All I can say is that my first experience of a Russian girl, is one that I will never forget, it was maybe the time of the cold war, but there was nothing cold about this sweet Russian girl, she was as hot as hell. I can’t really remember too much about the beauty of the Sphinx, the pyramids or the desert, but I can clearly remember every smooth and sweet curve of Lina’s sweet, beautiful, sexy body.

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