Originally Posted by TheEngineer

Obviously that is your choice. But then I have heard people complain about London - "expensive hotels, rip off prices for tourist attractions, gangs of hoodies ready to mug you". Add in the recent student protests and you would think it was a war zone.

One report I read was that a lot of locals were moaning that the protests resulted in a street closure and so the traffic was worse than usual in the rush hour (that was Cairo, not London in case you were wondering).

To be honest I wasn't that taken with Cairo but the Pyramids are worth seeing, even if they are at "the end of the high street" (which you rarely see in the pictures!)