Due to my slow work and low priority given to this travel blog, I haven't finished my updates on my fall trip to Montana and Wyoming, yet, here we are in Cairo once again.
To update my small number of followers, we left Minneapolis on January 4th via United Airlines to Newark where we boarded a Lufthansa 747-8 for Frankfurt. If you thought (as I did) there were no longer any passenger 747s in operation, you were almost right. Lufthansa, however, still has 19 in operation! It was a pleasant and relatively quick flight, only 7 hours, to Frankfurt. Linda had booked us into "economy premium" seats - a small 4 row section around Row 24 with wider seats and real silverware.
The final four and a half hours from Frankfurt to Cairo put on the ground late in the afternoon instead of at our usual 2:00AM arrival.
I had a window seat on the final leg but clouds blocked any scenery until we passed the African coast at Alexandria. There was not much to be seen on the approach to Cairo so I can only offer this picture of the rather monotonous modern architecture of the Cairo suburbs near the airport.
Once we arrived at the apartment, our new ceilings and freshly painted walls proved quite attractive but we soon had a "punch list" for the contractor in charge. Here I am standing with an electrician restoring light to our kitchen archway. In the foreground is Ahmed, our project manager.
We headed out to dinner the first evening aiming for Abu Khalid on the street behind our building; I turned us left by mistake and we ended up at a new restaurant (only open for a week) called TEMPO. It proved to be quite good. Linda had a nice eggplant tagen with a baba ganoush appetizer and I ordered a mixed grill with my tahini. We even had ice cream desert. I usually labor over these photos with Photoshop and post them on Flickr but for this post, I will simply embed them here on Blogger.
Without getting into all the details, I have no cellphone service but Linda does. Getting our landline restored so that we could have Internet access was quite a hassel. My new HP laptop fails periodically with a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). Linda's three new traveling partners have arrived and she/they are out their third day of touring today.
I have hopes of finishing my Montana/Wyoming blog posts and interspersing them with Egypt post soon.
Welcome to our winter home!
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