We have taken you to Cairo in these pages previously. Perhaps sixteen million people in the city on a good day and a million cars. The traffic is mind smashing. No one stops for anybody
The trick in crossing the Sharia is to stand just behind a local, and stare straight ahead do not watch the approaching traffic under any circumstances. As soon as the local tenses to move off run quickly beside on the down traffic side until you hit the opposite curb. Do not hesitate or stop , do not draw breath, and do not look aside. QED.
A morning arrival and a one night stay. The airport is looking so much better they have done wonders. Aziz is there. We greet as Brothers altho I am as old as his Grandfather.
Shepheards Hotel has not changed, been coming here for twenty years give or take. Huge rooms over look the Nile. Foods a tad better. Head out to The Grand Museum and the American University in Cairo Bookshop, buy enough books for a library wondering all the while how to store them for a month.
Nighttime clothes even Cairo in beauty, The Nile shining, walk to The Felfella, blissful dinner. Bed. Morning head off for Alexandria past the bagel seller on the overpass and the Adventure begins.