Already the 2nd flight is threatened to fail. Between Athens and Cairo a bad weather area as a result of an active warm front spread out. Embedded CBs with severe icing conditions and severe turbulences form a barrier exactly on our planned flight altitude and route.  The situation apparently won’t change materially during the next days.
The weather briefer in Athens can’t provide any hope for better conditions before Monday. So we come back to the proposal of the DWD in Hamburg to provide consulting en-route.  Mr. Hoffman suggests an alternative. Instead of flying directly over Crete with all difficulties we fly further to the east along the Turkish coast and over Cyprus and then heading Cairo. Though we have to fly through a thick cloud layer our flight progresses without any problems and adds only 30 minutes of flight time due to the tail wind component.
However inside the cockpit we face some new challenges. Sardines in their tins have much more room than us in our rescue suits incl. cold water protection clothes and life jackets. The life raft stuck between us adds to the problem. Shortly before approaching Cairo new talents are required: Life raft to be heaved in the back, undress 3 layers of rescue clothes and replace it by Jeans and shirts … a real acrobatic maneuver.
Luckily we fly according to IFR (instrument flight rules), because smog and sand clouds block the view so strongly that the assigned runway appears only in the very last moment in front of us.
36 degrees, sand, smog and horns, horns, horns - so we drive to the pyramids in the afternoon. Two traffic lanes become five used lanes: we believe it is called the fluent traffic of Cairo. Despite of sand, 5000 tourists daily, camels and small trade businesses almost everywhere: the Pyramids and Sphinx are really impressive.
Then, with only little surprise: We are finally lured into a perfumery and have lots of trouble to cope with the Arabian “hospitality”, thus escaping the shop without too much of new load for our small aircraft.    
On Mondays then the 5000 tourists seem to be in the Egyptian museum - like we are. This place filled with 5000 year-old history, e.g. an amazing collection of material given to the grave of Tutankhamen. However grave additions like hunting boomerangs, we would have expected rather in Australia and folding chairs and folding beds rather in the modern times. Interesting what the old Egyptians though would be useful for the second life of their kings.