The Verse of Light

Lucille’s, Maadi, Cairo. Home of the world’s best burger

Lakeside Cafe, al Azhar Park, Cairo

Masjid Sultan Hassan, Cairo

Masjid ibn Tulun, Cairo

Coptic Cairo

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Some of the things I will miss:

• Walking everywhere at anytime without having one of my hands pat a can of pepper spray
• Halaal everything
• www.otlob.com
• Egyptian halwayat (a key contributor towards the development and nurturing of my third chin)
• Late night shopping
• Interesting shopping
• The kindest, massive-hearted, deep-souled people: Dina, Mae, Dana and their families, Bibi and her buddies
• The cool old and the cool new; the different textures of Cairo
• Getting around on the Metro
• Fresh juice (my favourites are sugarcane and watermelon) at LE1 a pop from the shop around the corner
• The flat breads
• Cheap nutella
• Decent taxi drivers
• City living
• The photo ops
• The stories I could pluck out of the air

Some things I’ll be glad to give a miss:

• The tap water
• Leaky plumbing
• The dust
• The smog
• The litter (these people need a massive zap-it-in-the-zibi campaign)
• The crazy driving
• Playing chicken everytime we need to cross a road
• Dodgy taxi drivers

Will add to this as stuff occurs to me. It’s been a wowsome four months. Our Arabic tongues aren’t quite as fluid as we’d like but this made for a great start.

We’ve been here for just over three months and we still haven’t figure out what this framed tapestry on the lounge wall is all about.

I suppose we could ask the landlord but our broken Arabic is guarantee that someone’s decor sensibilities will be offended.

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Well?