The weekends in Cairo

What to do in the weekend in a 20 Million metropolis? You try to escape from it. The options are various and beautiful. From an escape-the-touts excursion to a float-in-the-sea-all-weekend or a jump-from-one activity-to-the-next day out, everything is available in this country, you only need to choose.

Last weekend I choose a combination of 2 and 3 and tried kite surfing for the first time in my life. This is a kind of surfing, where you are standing on a wake board and are dragged through the waves, by a huge kite, which is flying some 50m above you. Today, obviously I have a nice pain in my back from trying to hold onto the handle, PLUS a huge mushroom on my nose from looking up into the sun aka kite. Next time sun blocker will be part of my inventory!

So, this is what I will try to learn now over the next many weekends, in order to fly through the air like that guy soon…

Life continues in a new country...

Hello friends, family and accidental visitors to this page :-),

Updating my blog from Egypt, my new home for the next couple of years, I am not sure how to continue this webpage. My camera is bust and the lust for picture taking has not yet come back. Maybe my eyes are too spoiled by the colours and vast difference they have witnessed in India. Living in Cairo, I feel much closer to Europe and do not find much that is surprising. Being in Africa, so close to the desert also seems to wash away some of the color intensity.

But away go the colours, up goes the joy of living. Egypt is a great country for expatriation. All the amenities are here: Big supermarkets, opera, metro, diving, very friendly people...nevertheless, it is interesting and crazy enough to offer enough for new exploration and funny happenings. I remember, recently on the ring road, which is a 3-6 line (depending on the time of day) highway. 10 Camels on the back of a - not so big - pick up van, their soft lips flying in the head wind at 120km/hour. They seem to enjoy, like that dog who loves to put his nose out of the car window.

Ah, and before I forget. There has been an addition to the 'family'. One day, a teeny-weeny cat (maximum 4 weeks) came running towards me in the middle of a street. After some detour via the inside of a parked car, that she used as a refuge after suddenly someone scared her, she has grown into a beautiful Egyptian cat called Yoki.

Well, lets see how I'll continue that page, but if there are not so many photos, just come and see Egypt for yourself!

Kath