Thursday, October 27, 2005

A relationship like leaves

You're picking up the leaves of your relationship
And patching them back on the tree again
It doesn't want its dead leaves back
You stroll around looking for a glue
Strong enough to stick them back
Although you know
That even if you find one that's strong enough
The leaves will never turn green again

Sunday, October 23, 2005


I love clouds, isn't this a cool closing pic?

This is the sort of thing you should watch out for or, as Melissa put it, you might give it a hug.

Stuart and Clinton

Clint: 'Nicole look!'
Nicole:'What's wrong with it?'
Clint:'What's wrong??? Do you think we can get some previously unchewed bread in this place???'

Our last night :-(

This was before my stupid camel tried to throw me off. I actually didn't know that camels jump until mine did. For some reason unknown to me I managed to stay up there...

Chris is not looking that happy because Clinton's camel was constantly licking Chris's camel's arse. I think Chris was a bit scared the camel would turn to his ...

Yeah I know, it's a really touristy picture

Near the camel stalls.

...wouldn't want to live here. Housing is ridiculously expensive in Cairo. People pay monthly installments for about 60-80 years, same with the cars. However if an Egyptian can afford a satellite receiver he'll get about 2000 channels for free for the rest of his life. That's one of the reasons why Egyptians like to talk to foreigners, to find out if we're anything like what the saw in tv.

From far away the buildings may look nice...

I can't believe how clean it looks.

While walking down the streets of Cairo people always start talking to you. Some guy called Khaled turned up and wanted to show us around. We followed him until we nearly walked straight into some kind of riot....

Another unknown treasure. Too bad it was closed otherwise I might have found out what this acutally is.

...

These cars don't stop for you to cross. You close your eyes, pray (believe me in the streets of Cairo even an atheist will do it) and walk.

Streets of Cairo. Here you have to be prepared for anything. While you might try to jump aside to avoid getting run over by one of these insane drivers you might literally walk into a cow carcass.

Cairo mosque.

I don't remember the name of this mosque. Anyone? It's in Cairo that's the only thing I know.