serious tut-tut-tutting
How can I visit Alexandria and not know that there is a pillar called Bombay Pompey’s pillar there? There is some serious tut-tut-tutting going on I was drawn to Alexandria Library More wonderful than...
View Articlecar cough phone me
Egyptian road traffic (car, people, horses, cows, goats, carts) work out what to do based on local circumstances rather than any obvious rules. A free market for its users, a self-regulating...
View ArticleMuhammad ‘Ali Mosque
Above Cairo, within the Saladin citadel, sits the Ottoman style Muhammad ‘Ali Mosque (1848). An ornate structure that provides water for washing before prayer sits in the centre of an quadrangle....
View Articlequick scarper
Here come the Rozzers Wandering the streets of Cairo was quite tricky. Mainly because it was tricky to avoid the Tourist police on most street corners. They hide in their little houses....
View Articlethe rain in Egypt
falls mainly when Wendy has arrived on Holiday (not on a plain in Spain). In Egypt it only rains for a few minutes every year. I managed to make a trip especially to the rain clouds to witness the...
View Articlehigh speed liquid emissions
Warning: bad taste food post, do not read on if you have a weak stomach. Alone in a restaruant at lunch time in the daylight. Local people, mostly Muslims, were fasting for Eid. The sea food...
View Articlecoptic Cairo
The word ‘Coptic’ appears to refer to an Egyptian language spoken in Pharonic times and currently written with the Greek alphabet The language is now used in the Coptic church, a christian church...
View Articlebringing home the bacon
Friend in Cairo: we’re meeting a man on the street corner to pick up some bacon We loitered on a street corner. An old mecedes pulled up, a Egyptain looking man wearing very dark sunglasses,...
View Articlenight felucca in Cairo
.Listen to the city at night while I watch this sail boat, felucca, cross the Nile after sunset. Later that evening I experienced the rare treat of watching a whirling dervish. The whirling Dervish...
View Articletoday I am Omar Sharif
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