Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Woke up at 7:30 a.m. after 12 hours sleep and got ready and wrote and read. I was a little surprised to see sparrows on the balcony and a crow that is grey with black wings and head.

Yasser came over in the late morning with some food, Taamiyya and Guul on a type of pita bread. The Taamiyya is like the outside of fried chicken and was yummy, the Fuul was like re-fried beans, kind of dull.

We then took a walk to the Nile and grabbed a cab from there to the Opera House for the film festival. We saw "Joyeux Noel" a French film about a Christmas Eve during WW1. It was actually rather comical.

After the movie we walked around Cairo and went to dinner at a restaurant. We had Koshari and Coke. Koshari is also yummy, a mixture of pasta, rice, chick peas, toasted onions, herbs, with a tomato sauce. Traditional Egyptian food.

After dinner we continued to walk around Cairo. It is busy, but reminds me of places back home (T.O., Niagara, NYC) same types of buildings, shops, street vendors, cars, and people. We stopped at a coffee shop (Le Americana) and had Turkish Coffee which is a lot like espresso. After that we cabbed it home and had beer (Stella) and watched T.V., talked, read, made plans, etc.