It’s wonderfully quiet here. I’ve only been here an hour and I’m already more relaxed. Got a meal, got my room, a shower, etc, etc. Internets is spotty and costly here. We’ll see if they change the password on me or what. Might just be incommunicado for a few days. Put the “get away” in get away from it all.
So today I did a bad thing. I had dinner at Pizza Hut. But! I timed it so I would be right by the Nile, so I could see the sunset over the world’s longest river, and take some pictures. Here:
yeah, I know, more street pictures. I could do this all month, if I weren’t sick of Cairo. Really, really tired. noise. Cars. Crossing the road. No food in the day, because of Ramadan. A week at the beach is just what the doctor ordered. Yeah:
Compared to andy other time of the day, the streets in Cairo are empty in the morning, about 6am. I say about because I’m not entirely sure of when this was. There’s been some confusion about daylight savings time. I’ve spent today in front of the computer, except for the half hour walk I took this morning, in the quiet. Programming and thinking and playing games. Man I need to get outta this room. Maybe go walk around. Down to the Museum, even though it’s closed.
seriously, the traffic here is something else. It’s a big part of what I’ll take away from here. I’ll have dreams of the sound of horns and weaving through crowds of pedestrians. Also, crossing the street here is a bitch and a half. The cars in that first picture? Stopped. Then they move a few feet, then they stop again.
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