Shopping Day

By Thursday, we were caught up on sleep and ready to do some serious shopping.  We headed over to the nearby Dandy Mall, home of a very large Carrefour hypermarket.

The newly completed extension of the Ring Road to the west now provides easy access to towns such as Fayoum and also a convenient route to the 6 October suburb where Dandy Mall is found.  

This was a great day for travel as the air was clear and there were puffy Cumulus clouds that cast patterns of light and dark on the pyramids.  We should probably have canceled the shopping and just gone out on a photography sojourn.

As we passed over Mansourea road, the two larger Giza pyramids stood out in dark profile.

 

At a sign marking the turnoff to Fayoum, we noticed a direction sign for the as-yet-to-open Grand Egyptian Museum.  While the opening has been projected as imminent since at least 2018, I suspect that this signage and other indications point to a possible opening "soon."

 

Nearing the Dandy Mall, we noted the attractive new settlement of Mountain View, not far from the community of Beverly Hills, another Giza suburb.

 

 

Dandy Mall offers a number of fast-food outlets, some quite familiar, in addition to Carrefour and other retail stores.

Carrefour celebrates their anniversary in Egypt each January and this year is special since it is the 20th anniversary.  Large screen televisions were flying off the shelves with the Pluto 43-inch priced at about $200 and a 65-inch Toshiba offered for $400.  That one barely fits into a shopping cart.

  

 

We have read that eggs are in short supply in some states back home - and quite expensive to boot.  They are plentiful here, but there is much discussion of price since last year's egg was selling for 2 pounds (Egyptian) and prices now are almost 4 pounds apiece at the local stores.  Carrefour was offering cartons of thirty for barely more than 3 pounds each.

After packing up a cart-full of groceries, we left for home by way of Mansourea road where we stopped at one the stores specializing in pet food and veterinary supplies for cats, dogs and horses.  Unsure of which brand of cat food to choose for our apartment building cats, we chose the brand that the local area cat chose - after all, ours are of similar color.