Well, as it seems that merely documenting my life out here in Egypt is going to become tedious for the reader, I’ve decided to write my opinions and impressions down, when I have anything to say that is.
Let’s start with the roads here. It’s a bit disconcerting when flying through the streets in a taxi at night to find a cyclist with no lights on riding down the wrong way of the dual carriageway towards you.
Likewise with a donkey-drawn cart, three wheeler motorbike, in fact the side of the road on which to drive seems to be pretty much optional if you’re not in a car; even then some still take it into their own hands if the next turning point is too far away.
Taxi drivers love to reverse down the dual carriageway at you, in their quest to save 2 minutes on their travels.
When a car pulls out of a side street, looking for other traffic is something that is only done by us foreigners. They expect any traffic already on the main road to stop/swerve so that they can continue unimpeded.
A neat feature of the traffic lights here is a counter either in red or green depending on the colour of the light, telling you when the light will next change. Most drivers use this facility as intended, some just ignore the lights completely.
On a more mundane note, I finally managed to get myself a sofa and I’m off to Sharqiya tonight to stay with Ahmed and his family for a couple of days. I’ll take in a day ot two in Cairo whilst there.
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