off to a good start

I spent two painstaking days arranging exactly what I would need for the next ten months into two suitcases, EACH no more than 20kg. I arrived a tad late to the airport, and stepped up to the check-in counter. The woman with the much too tight bun kindly informed me that I could check no more than 20 kg TOTAL. I dragged my bags to the side and tore through them. Panties flying, books tossed aside, shampoo in the trash, I emerged six minutes later having cut my luggage exactly in half. This all could have been avoided if there had been an English website. Or if I could speak better French.

The pyramids are in the lower right-hand corner!

The outskirts of the city: