Australians love visiting Egypt despite government warnings, Debra Killalea writes. “Although they remain ‘dangerous,’” she says, “Aussies continue to visit Lebanon and Egypt in droves with visitor numbers up in these countries during the past year.”

Wait, there are white people in Cairo? OMG. Oh, and a Kiwi writes of travel to The Exotic Orient (read: Egypt) under a pen name, serving up — not as satire — such astute observations as “What surprised me about the bar wasn’t Drake but that these kids were so white. The streets of Cairo are filled with people of various shades of brown. But here in this bar, the people were white. … It wasn’t for a couple of days that I worked out that these were the decedents of the Mamluks, the Caucasian slave-boys that ended up ruling Egypt for centuries. These kids were the product of hundreds of years of privilege.” It goes rapidly downhill from there. Read “A weekend in Egypt, five years after the eruptions of the Arab Spring,” but warn a loved one before you do that they should be ready to stop you from strangling yourself half-way through.