Traffic is a constant in Cairo. No matter the time of day(or night), if you are anywhere near a road, you will hear the sounds of vehicles, horns, and music.
Ever seen a little kid pretend to drive a car? They have the imaginary steering wheel out in front of them, and will zoom around, "steering" the imaginary car around all kinds of obstacles, all of this generally accompanied by some kind of vroom vroom noise.
We were walking back to the apartment from an evening stroll on the Nile when we passed some little Egyptian kids "driving". The basic principle was the same, except there was no vroom vroom. The driving was instead accompanied nonstop by the two little guys going BEEP BEEPBEEP BEEEEEEP. Needless to say, we were amused.
Just one of those little cultural differences... :)
Alexander
3 comments:
Still reading...and smiling....and missing you guys. ; )
Really enjoying the commentaries and watching the journey progress. Keep up the good work.
Dr J
Nice writing Alexander! Nicole ande I enjoyed reading.. and obviously we could relate to some things :)
Ihab
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