... how can 'be staying there for work, and maybe be lucky enough to be in a place one thousand kilometers away from Cairo and, at least for now, relatively quiet ...
Being from day to day with Internet which no longer works, because the Government, worried by the power of organization and coordination of the masses who have social networks, has obscured ... and indeed without even knowing it ...
already there ... and you realize that all you had daily contact with friends and relatives or just for cazzeggiano are no longer possible ... then one that does? Reasonably take the phone and writing a message ... and they realize that the SMS service does not work a. .. try to call, it seems logical to me ... and inexplicably, the card does not work neither Egyptian nor the Italian ... now what? Maccheccazzo happens? At the very least turn on the television ... but the satellite channels are not seen ...
You can not imagine that the blocking of cellular ie of television networks is a Government move, but at least beginning to suspect that something is definitely not right ... Vodafone has admitted that he had been ordered to "switch off" from the Egyptian government ... and added the condition that the cellular service provider in the country is in their contract ... id est could not be refused.
Someone murmurs that are in place in the capital of the riots, but you're a thousand miles south fortunately, again, and work need to entertain people ... and you will not be with you hanging on his face thinking, "Shit I should at least tell my mother that I am well, which is quiet here ... but how? "
Nothing Internet, then nothing inf or what happens, nothing phones then no contact ...
Turkey, USA, Israel, Dubai, UAE, Libya, Qatar, Kuwait and so on and so forth have ordered the immediate return of all their countrymen organizing airlifts ... Italy FUCK WITH ... because the turnover of the Italian Red Sea is impressive, the villages are almost only Italian ... block the departure would be a huge loss of money, so the Ministry is confined to "advise" (it already makes you think) ... but to find out of this isolation to tear out those that are not talked about .. The Show Must Go On .. and as long as there is quiet ... you pocket the money and reimbursements to avoid, when really angry, lost in winter swimmers (the category where there are often I point out).
Meanwhile oggil'esercito has deployed tanks in Sharm el Sheik .
Hundreds of Italian tourists in Italy are trying to return from Sharm (at their expense since the Italian government has not acted, of course) but stuck at the airport because a) does not fly Egyptair b) there are links from Cairo, that every day that passes is increasingly no man's land c) it follows that if you want to go home to wait for your charter, maybe ... Always with the mess of the telecommunications is that the airports continue to operate normally.
Hurghada and Marsa Alam are made better, even as they are in the middle of nowhere, literally, and the few people who live in the neighborhood is generally used in all villages ... But
Marsa Alam is near the border with Sudan in ... is not it just a border on which the health walks, especially when one is faltering regime that is there for 30 years and sets a worrying power vacuum. .. and I well remember the impressive military installations around fifty miles south of the city .... with a lot of roadblocks fixed (ie, bars and check their military) often enough to traverse the state ... not assured even in times of calm ...
short, being in a calm appearance, where news comes disconnected and distant urban guerrilla warfare and revolution, where it comes from people who do not give a fuck daughters how are you and you want (even legitimately) have fun, to be suddenly disconnected the world without even being able to say if only "but that you care to do here is from God", eh maybe ... I go crazy in less than 24 hours ....
Fuck.
NOTE: Obviously for tourists at the start it should be noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( viaggiaresicuri.it ) has recommended the first outward to Cairo, and yesterday extended the warning to all of Egypt. That alone is enough to make change locations from the tour operator or reimbursement if you fail to start.
Sharm fear that it is impractical, and I would also like to see, with tanks deployed and the residence of Mubarak right there ....
throughout the country under curfew, and then have to believe that the evenings of "hard on the beach" type Pataya Marsa Alam to be clear, they are definitely hanging ... imagine how easy it is to be suspended tours to Luxor and Aswan, place it where the situation is anything but quiet and the people in the street ... s'ammazza
UPDATE 01/02/2011: The Internet is still down, and today the entire cellular network ... a very good move to try to prevent communication between people. If it is a crime against human rights that we lack a little ..
Tour operators "minor" are suspended departure for Egypt Classic until at least 21.2 and the Red Sea to the Tour Operator more 06/02....i simply follow (evvorreivedere!) the discourage the foreign ministry, giving travel alternatives or refunds to customers leaving ... the understanding that those who want to start (provided that the flight ... they fly, especially in the back!) can 'do at your own risk, signing an indemnity to departure. The fact remains that those who have returned from Marsa Alam on Saturday 29 reports on a quiet holiday and no discomfort except for the "inexplicable" blocked phones and the Internet .... but it must be said that this is people who have finished the holiday on Friday 28, in practice ... that is when he just started to come out of the mess well and good ...
