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| Ahmed, my husband. |
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| The cat and the curfew It's only a picture of a cat here around the corner. But there's a story to it. Have fooled my husband tonight, told him that I have to buy nailpolish really urgently but I actually wanted to see how the Egyptian version of a curfew looks like. So, until we waited for our dinner (because I got hungry too, accidentally where there would be a checkpoint in about 20 minutes, it was close to 9 pm when the curfew starts), have watched the Egyptian comedy. I thought curfew means that everybody disappears from the streets. In this case, it looked like a traffic jam. Some bored neighbors hoping for action tried to help the guys with the guns telling them which cars they should stop to be checked. Heading home on the blocked empty street (which was nice because we were walking in the middle of the street and there were no cars that wanted to kill us), we found one of the most important check points in Cairo on our corner. That's because General Sisi lives a few streets away. There were also a wedding party waiting at the checkpoint, with the guests singing on the top of the cars. After some quarreling, the soldiers let the wedding people through but blocked the way right after that, not even the very quick ones managed to get through. After a few minutes, there was a lot of agitation, didn't understand why and anyway, I was thinking that I would like to eat some chocolate too. It was, in fact, general Sisi with all his bodyguards driving through really fast, with all the soldiers really nervous that something could happen. But nothing happened. I was able to take my photos of the check point only from the our bedroom window later on. Because this is not a joke, you know. If I shoot, they shoot too. So, I took only this pic with the phone of the cat with the checkpoint in the background. Forgot to buy nailpolish, though. |
