Master Geoffrey King, of Taroona, gets a chatty letter,
from WO Charles Bowling, attached tothe RAF in the Middle
East:
We live on a houseboat
when in Cairo.
There are always plenty
of boats going up and down the Nile laden with all sorts
of goods.
The people of Egypt use
the Nile for transporting their products.
They use large,
flat-bottomed barges which they call Falukas.
There is a good beach here, and we are having some surfing.
The natives make small
surf boards which they hire
out very cheaply.
With them we get some
good runs on the waves.
