Here are three random images I took on my camera - I would take more but the camera phone has a shutter delay of around 3 days!
Sitting in traffic the other night I looked over an there was a women in full veil driving the car next door. Now driving in Cairo you need your wits about you, eye in the back of your head and extra sensory perception. People say you need to read the road - only the road is in Arabic and the words are all jumbled up. So having to drive through this with your peripheral vision disturb looked pretty daunting. "Very dangerous" said Ahmed.
During the hotter moths in Cairo the cars, normally stuck in traffic, overheat. The buses get around this by, I think the engineering term is, "wedging open the engine door with a piece of 2 x 4'. This is a typical scene on the way back from work.....
Normally in cairo you see dangerous loads on top of cars. On the way back from the lunch time run to the garage I came across some chap with probably about 15 helium filled balloons loading them into a taxi. As he would push the last ones in others would pop out of the windows the other side. Eventually Laurel and Hardy closed the windows but the poor taxi driver was crushed up against the door by them. Only as it drove off did i think about taking a photo that does not really do it justice. Im surprised he did not float off....
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