Before me, this sickness I call 'gastro' has affected 6/15 people in our group already. I was the 8th (one other person got sick around when I did, so he's the 7th). In a way, I am lucky (knock on wood) because I only had the runs and wasn't vomiting. The other 2 before (#5 and 6) were not so lucky though. One's birthday was today and all he could do was hold on to his head. The other was vomiting uncontrollably and was actually taken to the hospital to get medication right before we boarded the sleeper train for the 2nd time.
There was actually a big fight between the driver and the tour leader because of it I believe. The driver wouldn't take the vomiting person on the bus and so the tour leader and her had to take a cab to the hospital, and then to the station. So what ended up happening was that the 13 of us had to find our way around the train station, and unload our own luggage. Everyone in the group were very understanding and pooled together and everything ran smoothly and everyone (including the one taken to the hospital) boarded the train bound for Cairo. Yay! However, with the birthday boy sick and this episode of our tour almost having been guideless in Alexandria, the birthday celebration was put off to another day.
Also, with 4 people sick...it is needless to say that the washroom on the train ran out of toilet paper very very quickly!
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