The least stressful way to be an England Supporter.

Watching England, as any fan will tell you, can be a highly frustrating business. Yet circumstances last night developed in such a way that we stumbled across a lower-stress method - not to watch the game at all, which for P is almost unthinkerable, but as it turns out was probably for the best.

The last night in the party season in Cairo was announced long ago, way before World cup fixtures, and the Queens Birthday party is held at the British Embassy Residence in the garden district of Cairo. Ahmed drove us down to a very secure area around the embassy (I say very secure as there was a load of police around, whether it was secure or not is a different matter as the only think the cops were doing was sitting around taking photos of the various party dresses (and some were indeed either spectacular to ill concieved).

A couple of photos from the trip down - an overloaded truck and a nutseller on the bridge over the Nile..

The residence garden was the venue, pretty nice (although not as nice as the pyramid ball !). Food was good and party was good, as we danced in the heat till the wee hours only stopping to get brief text updates from young T from the footy, most featuring the words, awful, woeful, disappointing. P made the prediction that our ticket number (400) would win one of the raffle prizes and low and behold he was correct, a 500 egp voucher for a restaurant at the Dusit Thani, a thai hotel close to us - a nice surprise and pretty impressive clairvoyancy!!

So husband ended up the night not watching an extremely poor england displaysomething he would normally consider unthinkable - but overall was less stressed out by the whole thing so had to admit is was probably for the best!

Heres some photos...