Shopping in the Neighborhood

On our second evening here, we made a few stops at neighborhood shops.  One of my first stops is always at our favorite neighborhood bakery, about a half-mile away.  Pictured here about six years ago, our baker always has a friendly greeting for us - and by far the best sweets that we have found anywhere in the city.  A bakery here doesn't sell normal bread, just bread specialty items.


We made three stops that evening along Heckma street.  Heckma Chicken has the best grilled chicken we have found here - Red arrow. The green arrow points to a tiny telephone store where we picked up a new battery for Linda's very old Egypt mobile phone.  Farther down the block there is a small grocery where we found New Zealand butter.






New to the area this year are a carpet store, not pictured, and this interesting toy shop.  We will have to explore these places later.


Back at home, we were greeted by the electric company's meter reader who presented us with the monthly bills for last March, April and up to the current date.


Here are some of our purchases:


The fresh green peppers came to 35 cents.  The three delicious sweet rolls from the bakery totaled 45 cents.  And the past ten months electricity totaled almost exactly ten dollars.  I am so glad Egypt has not developed the American practice of charging thirty dollars per month just for being connected to the line with no usage! That's what we pay to East Central Energy to keep our cabin (in Gordon, WI) connected to electricity.