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Cairo
on Jun 5, 2007 in Near and Middle East Asia Middle East Egypt Cairo Giza Nile Pyramids Nuweiba Aqaba Jordan ferry ports travelogue old world wandering travel backpacking mosque spice medicine journey Ports are transitional: the places where countries merge, before coexisting on boats. Men had staggered clumsily through the pitching Ulysses, which took us from Rosslare to Cherbourg. They drank Guinness in the cabaret bar, and watched wide smiling...
Tout Like an Egyptian
on Jun 12, 2007 in Near and Middle East Aswan Luxor Cairo Nile Egypt Middle East Asia Abu Simbel Temple of Sobek and Haroeris Horus Edfu Kol Ombo Karnak Temples Valley the Kings Queens A train deposited Iain and I in Aswan four hours behind schedule. A crowd of soldiers in combat uniforms guarded the platform, torso sized shields in their fists. A large group of convicts had been transported in the train that had taken us overnight...
Police *****
on Jul 11, 2007 in personal shit cairo police If you are living in Egypt do not be surprised if a cop stops you in the street asking for your ID and starting to search you with his hands. It just happened tonight, 3 hours before I start writing this, I was in a taxi on my way to Hadayek El Kobba...
Lucille's burgers are bust.
on Oct 15, 2007 in Hamburger Food Cairo Egypt A couple of months ago, my older brother called me from New Haven to tell me that, according to Time magazine, the best hamburger in the world resides at Lucille's, a Maadi restaurant that is the closest thing we have here in Cairo to a greasy spoon...
Casper and Gambini's
on Oct 21, 2007 in City Stars Food Cairo Restaurants No doubt most of Cairo has been to City Stars, and probably a lot of Cairo's youth has hung out, at one time or another, at Casper and Gambini's on the second floor of Phase I.This Lebanese born establishment sits spatially and gustatorily above anot...