Recently I have witnessed 3 awful relationships, 2 personally and another one virtually. These girls have believed in Egyptian scumbags and been deceived. All three of them are clinging on to a hopeless relationship. They can not see the deceit in front of their eyes.

I asked my husband the other day was he the only decent man in Egypt he laughed but he acknowledged that most men are in it for what they can get. He said about Hurgada that nothing good comes from there and even if a good man goes to Hurgada he gets corrupted.

So please ignore anything I have said in the past about you might be lucky and this might be a good one. Without question anyone you meet on the internet or in tourism is out for any thing he can get and you are a fool if you believe any of it.

Sorry

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UK Co-owner of www.toursinluxor.co.uk Accommodation and Tours in Luxor

of course it also helps that you know how to pick out the gem among the sleaze bags.

(and love the blog, by the way)

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Thanks for the feed back on the blog it is nice to know people enjoy it.

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Jane, thanks for the heartfelt message.

Still I have a feeling we will keep hearing from the lovesick and the willing-to-be-deceived.

A married couple - friends of mine - travelled to Egypt and were shocked by the people and would never go back there.

Let me ask you this: When I travel back to Egypt - which I will - what can I do in order to expose myself as little as possible to men like to ones you described above? How could I get to know nice Egyptian people?

I am pretty able to spot such people and can't imagine being deceived like that, but it does spoil the fun

Thanks for your reply.

Lori

Lori, i don't think you need to worry too much about it...it's the women who go there completely unprepared for all the tourist chatup lines who seem to be most likely to fall for them, or the women who believe everything they're told online by someone they've never met.

Lori having seen you post over the months I think like Moll that you will not be sucked in to the scams.

Gosh there are such nice people out in Egypt but it is hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

Why would you reveal yourself as being one of the women Jane was feeling sorry for? She never mentionned names in her posts!

Now I'm confused

Salam
Monica

Hypothetically speaking, if I were to write a book - on cross-cultural behaviour - and include examples from this message board, do you think that anyone would have a good case against me, in court?

Just a thought!

Monica

I was "lucky", or maybe I should say that HE was the lucky one. He works in Hurghada (but is not from there originally), we had a proper civil marriage in Cairo, he doesn't have any other wives and we are planning for children together soon. We are very happy, which makes your highly revelatory statistics of successful/unsuccessful marriages between European women and Egyptian men at a ratio of 2:5 so far.

Oh hold on, I know another couple who are very happy together in Hurghada, so that makes it 3:5, but, no, there are also two couples who don't have such wonderful relationships, so let me see, that's 3:7.

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I just think that mostly people posting here on the board who were not that lucky and still trying to forget and forgive.

My relationship to an Egyptian guy broke off bad and hurtful but I am not letting this experience ruin my love for Egypt and its people in general - because

Egypt rules.............

i KNOW that there are nice and decent egyptians in hurghada too!! and nice tourists too who are not going there to be entertained by young egyptian studs, but for other things.