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greekcypriot	Jan 21 2011, 01:24 AM Post #1
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 4290 Joined: 25-March 09 Member No.: 273790	Has your vacation ever been spoiled by being sick? Feel free to share some stories........ -------------------- My LATEST BLOGS: Marmari, Vasa, and CYPRUS, the Unique Destination for Business and Holidays!!! The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine

purplebuggy	Jan 22 2011, 05:20 AM Post #2
Tourist Group: Local Expert Posts: 524 Joined: 19-June 09 From: Australia Member No.: 282787	I got sick from (accidently) brushing my teeth with tap water in Cairo, Egypt. (I couldn't ever stomach a banana!) It made the flight to Luxor a very interesting one but luckily it meant that I didn't miss to many sights because it was a travel day rather than an outing day that I was sick. -------------------- pb Diary of a Ranger-To-Be Another year in the bushveld of South Africa (Jan 11 - now)

greekcypriot	Jan 23 2011, 01:06 AM Post #3
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 4290 Joined: 25-March 09 Member No.: 273790	When we were on a similar trip to Egypt, Alexandria, Luxor, the whole group got sick but it was not from tap water. It was from the restaurant I think! I got worse on Mount Sainai in Sharlm el Sheikh and lost 95% of that tour and I was even robbed by the coach driver when I had to be taken back to the coach to lay down until the tour was over. I have written about it in an old entry: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entri...54500/tpod.html -------------------- My LATEST BLOGS: Marmari, Vasa, and CYPRUS, the Unique Destination for Business and Holidays!!! The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine

purplebuggy	Jan 23 2011, 05:59 AM Post #4
Tourist Group: Local Expert Posts: 524 Joined: 19-June 09 From: Australia Member No.: 282787	Agh, shame. Have you been able to go back since and visit what you missed? (or revisit the mangoes and guavas...) -------------------- pb Diary of a Ranger-To-Be Another year in the bushveld of South Africa (Jan 11 - now)

sianeth	Jan 23 2011, 01:25 PM Post #5
Jet Setter Group: Local Expert Posts: 2643 Joined: 9-June 07 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 60100	About 2 weeks after I got back from Ghana I got really ill and could barely move for about 3 days. The symptoms were pretty similar to malaria so I thought I had that for a while. After I went for the blood test I realised I'd actually poisoned myself with some out of date yeast whilst baking bread... d'oh, what an idiot!! Scary for a little while though!

greekcypriot	Jan 23 2011, 02:01 PM Post #6
Rolling Stone Group: Local Expert Posts: 4290 Joined: 25-March 09 Member No.: 273790	QUOTE(purplebuggy @ Jan 23 2011, 05:59 AM) Agh, shame. Have you been able to go back since and visit what you missed? (or revisit the mangoes and guavas...) Oh no purplebuggy I did not have the chance to go back to that place ever since, but it is surely in my plans. Mangoes and guavas e? Oh how much I love these exotic fruit!!! Hi Sian, nice seeing you in the forums. You were lucky in a way, because you got ill when back home and not while in Ghana....it would have been much worse. I am going to search your entries and read about your trip now......! -------------------- My LATEST BLOGS: Marmari, Vasa, and CYPRUS, the Unique Destination for Business and Holidays!!! The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine

purplebuggy	Jan 25 2011, 06:01 AM Post #7
Tourist Group: Local Expert Posts: 524 Joined: 19-June 09 From: Australia Member No.: 282787	Note to self - be careful of the yeast that's still in the cupboard! -------------------- pb Diary of a Ranger-To-Be Another year in the bushveld of South Africa (Jan 11 - now)

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